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The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes today that an energy bill with a cap on carbon emissions, even a scaled-down cap on the power sector, is dead. Klein

Last week, my piece on the Federal Election Commission noted that despite the fact that three of the six members of the commission were serving well beyond

OK, this is getting good. The campaign of Dede Scozzafava, the moderate Republican candidate in the NY-23 special election, has blundered into an all-out war

For a moment, leave aside the legal questions about the Obama administration’s apparent decision that it possesses the legal authority to order the

Midterm candidates spend $50 million on alcohol and catering. Andrew Cuomo makes his employees cry. A professor loses 27 pounds by eating mostly

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin sampling Saginaw Township’s West Michigan Park next week to determine how much dioxin was deposited in the Tittabawassee floodplain during recent flooding. Dioxin, a highly toxic and carcinogenic byproduct of combustion and chemical manufacturing, has spread from Dow Chemical’s Midland plant 52 miles downstream through the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers and into Lake Huron.

Andrew Breitbart (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Tea party favorite Andrew Breitbart and ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief are scheduled to speak at a breakfast hosted by Americans for Prosperity’s Florida chapter this Friday in Orlando. Breibart will also be taking part in a panel discussion with several Florida officials during Presidency 5, organized by the Republican Party of Florida. “Andrew Breitbart has undeniably proven the importance online activism and investigative journalism plays in influencing narratives in the media,” said Americans for Prosperity’s Slade O’Brien in a press release

In my last post on the eyewitness evidence the government claims it has against Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan who just won his habeas corpus case, I noted that

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Lots of things were unclear about U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2008: the precise mission, the resources, the broader national dedication.

This arrest doesn’t appear to be anywhere near as important as the last several. Nor was this individual captured in Pakistan. But this is the latest news from

In an extremely short statement released today, Osama bin Laden warned the U.S. against putting Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to death. The day America makes that

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Only two reporters actually got into the courtroom where Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing will take place to suppress his statements to

The proposal to place a question on the 2012 ballot that would alter the Minnesota Constitution to ban same-sex marriage passed the Senate on Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 38 to 27. The measure is waiting its final committee hearing in the House before that chamber votes on it. Virtually all of the testimony on the Senate floor was in opposition to the bill, which led one legislator to question whether supporters were ashamed to speak in support of it.

Obama interacts with the White House press corps even less than George W. Bush did. A California legislator attempts to curb Texas textbook influence in his

Sen. Amy Klobuchar picked up a third Republican challenger on Tuesday as St. Paul native Anthony Hernandez threw his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination.

Another day, another Section 501 nonprofit under scrutiny for its political activity. Today The New York Times profiles the American Future Fund, which does not

Barack Obama might not ever say that we live in a post-racial society, but his election was heralded by many as the beginning of an American era not bedeviled

In the annual St. Cloud State University Survey , 55 percent of Minnesotans surveyed say the state is on the wrong track, down one percent from last year.

Ben Bernanke is no Oracle at Delphi, but traders still act like all this banking stuff is very opaque.

On mortgage giant Freddie Mac’s blog, Featured Perspectives, executive Don Bisenius takes on strategic defaulters -- underwater mortgage-holders (that is,