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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 --

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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)

Controversial preacher Bradlee Dean says that House Speaker Kurt Zellers asked to appear on Dean’s radio show, the Sons of Liberty, the week before Dean gave a controversial prayer before the Minnesota House . Dean’s claim stands in stark contrast to Zeller’s words condemning Dean, as well as House leadership’s insistence that they weren’t familiar with Dean.

In light of Georgia’s plans to go through with the execution of Troy Davis at 7:00 p.m. EST tonight, despite the recantation of seven of the nine witnesses that

Rosa Brooks, a senior Pentagon adviser, will lead the office amid growing recognition that local perceptions of the U.S. military play a key battlefield role.

About an hour ago, the NATO command in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, sent out a disturbing release expressing dee regrets for an

The American Association for Justice -- formerly known as the American Trial Lawyers Association -- is gearing up to defend against proposals for tort reform as

Per their request, West Virginia’s lawmakers were briefed by the White House this afternoon on developments surrounding the investigation of last week’s

It’s a question the Democratic Policy Committee considers in a flash report called The Economic Statistics of the BP Oil Spill, which also underscores the