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Please make it this wonderful FireDogLake exchange between Rand’s Seth Jones -- author of a new book tracing how the Afghanistan war became a fiasco --

First she exposes her ignorance on interrogations at CPAC. Now this: There is no polite way to put this: Obama’s incompetence is getting people

Calculated Risk has an excellent roundup today of local efforts to fight vacancies and blight caused by banks that abandon their foreclosed homes. Cities and

The United States has officially handed over control of the Green Zone back to the Iraqis. From The Washington Post: When the clock struck midnight on

The day after voting his nomination out of committee, the full Senate confirmed Leon Panetta last night as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Immigrants rights advocates in Michigan say they are hopeful about reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ended a policy of arbitrarily searching mass transit in the interior of the country.

Even as Senate Finance Committee Democrats are patting themselves on the back over a damn fine cost estimate for their enormous health reform proposal,

Via Climate Progress, E&E News reports that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning to

Today’s news that Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) cut a deal with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to remove the bailout fund -- a $50 billion pool taxed from banks to

It turns out that expanding your contracts with the government after killing people and paying hush money can attract congressional scrutiny. The New York

In advance of a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday morning, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has

A conservative front group is calling on the Federal Election Commission to look into Emily’s List-endorsed Lois Frankel’s campaign finances.

OK, it’s possible to read too much into this news. Or, more properly, news. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently welcomed the crew from Orange County

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving senator in American history and a steadfast fighter for West Virginia’s interests, died early this morning at

Mark Hosenball at Newsweek names some people potentially in the running to be director of national intelligence in an Obama administration: Some prominent

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) changed his party affiliation last year from Republican to Democrat ahead of this year’s difficult primary race. Republican Gov.

The prospects for a public option -- a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers -- appeared dim after Senate Democrats decided they could

The Huntsville Times reports on a speech made on Saturday by Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn), in which the co-sponsor of the state’s new

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General today released a report that confirms the problems surrounding the controversial 287(g)

Just a quick observation on the Blagojevich arrest: Did anyone else find it ironic that this episode comes just three days after Democratic Rep. William