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TPM caught a poor word choice in Howard Kurtz’s Monday column: The Boston Globe has an interesting piece from Obama’s native country on attempts to cash

The Pentagon general counsel, July 7: Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson suggested to the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the difficulties

Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second

Remember last month, when a Website called Preserve Raptor Jobs began warning that 95,000 jobs would get cut if the Pentagon scrapped the problematic Air Force

Now that Chas Freeman is out of a job -- and this is clearly a win for advocates of Chinese human rights and liberalism and empiricism, and not other issues;

Recently released documents exposing the inner workings of an influential corporate and state lawmaker collaboration called the American Legislative Exchange

The Senate Armed Services Committee might still not have Gen. David Petraeus’s eight-minute statement on the military’s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) The House of Representatives’ Office of Congressional Ethics has launched a “preliminary” investigation into Rep. Vern Buchanan, R- Sarasota

Just when you thought the conversation over government spending had moved firmly from the executive branch to the legislative, Christopher Hellman, a military

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A question that intuitively speaks to the voluntariness of Omar Khadr’s statements to interrogators in Bagram (and later Guantanamo) in 2002

One of the points that Defense Secretary Bob Gates emphasized -- arguably, in fact, the key point -- in his Senate testimony last month is the abundant need to

Spending bailout money to lobby for more bailout money might soon become slightly more difficult. Incoming Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to

Yesterday, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) introduced a bill to provide extra weeks of federally paid-for unemployment insurance benefits for the 99ers -- the

VP candidate rose to power by looking out for No. 1. Now that she’s on the national stage, she could be back to politics as usual.

Sen. Barack Obama is tapping his sizable political cell phone network to help Hurricane Gustav relief. On Monday, he issued a personal plea via text message to

Every city has its own variation of political scandal. In Los Angeles, it’s usually about complicated land grabs and water. Many people view

I first encountered former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) at a 2007 forum on, of all things, the media, at the 2007 Yearly Kos convention. (Starting in 2008, the

The Colorado Division of Wildlife is looking for two, maybe three potential Darwin Award recipients who bought hamburgers and cheeseburgers at the Burger King in Eagle on Wednesday and hand fed them to a mother black bear and her three cubs. “This is an extraordinary example of stupid and irresponsible behavior by people,” said CDOW northwest regional manager Ron Velarde, according to RealVail.com .

July is the bloodiest month for the United States in Afghanistan since the war began almost eight years ago. The entire defense establishment has warned that