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Apropos of this post about Lawrence Wilkerson’s charge that the torture apparatus built by the Bush administration was concerned with manufacturing an

Back in June, a small group of birthers arrived in Washington and began handing out grand jury presentments to confused staff at congressional offices and

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Usually when you hear about cross-border attacks here, they are perpetrated by the Taliban. Not so much in recent weeks -- this

Just in from the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.): the upper chamber will hold a procedural vote next Tuesday afternoon to proceed to

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering this question, then you should probably get yourself to the How to Take Back America Conference in St. Louis on Sept.

Want another example of Mike’s thesis that Bush has lost his congressional mojo? Yesterday the House approved a measure sponsored by Rush Holt (D-NJ) to

Sen. Barack Obama has only one event today, a rally in Dunedin, Florida, and the rest of his schedule is cleared for debate prep. His campaign, however, is not

BOSTON -- At his morning press conference, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) seemed more miffed than flattered by a question about whether he had

One-time child Guantanamo Bay inmate of Mohammed Jawad -- he’s believed to be 21 years old, though it’s unclear, and was detained for about seven years -- was

The latest attempt to push the boundaries of campaign finance law comes from the Republican Senator Mike Lee, who filed an advisory opinion request with the

At a press availability earlier today, I asked Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) about the arrest of anti-ACORN muckraker James O’Keefe and what it meant for

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments to reporters yesterday that the economic downturn could pose a substantial hurdle to passing immigration

On March 13, President Obama nominated Maryland civil rights lawyer Thomas J. Perez for the post of Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of

Why is former Vice President Dick Cheney -- who’s planning to speak at the American Enterprise Institute right after President Obama’s national security speech

So claims Human Rights Watch in a press release. The former detainee, Rasul Kudaev, has been held for more than three years in pretrial detention in Nalchik, a

During this, the anniversary week of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, supporters and opponents offered their love or hate for the

The Chronicle of Higher Education raises a question worth examining, as the credit stays tighter than usual and the economy remains sluggish: Is higher

Indiana’s Democratic senator announces that he won’t seek re-election despite raising $13 million for the contest and leaving his party four days to find a

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) gets — surprise! — paranoid and angry about all the criticism she’s getting for leaving her job. The double standard that’s

The Senate will hold a procedural vote tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. to limit debate on legislation extending unemployment benefits in all states, Sen. Richard Durbin

Michele Bachmann has confirmed that she will speak at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC, in October. Bachmann has attended the summit, put together by the Family Research Council , an organization that is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for the past four years

The New York Times comes down hard today on the Bush Administration and the Treasury Department for failing to move forward with a plan to help modify the

Eli Lake at The Washington Times has the exclusive: President Obama’s choice to run the Justice Department has assured senior Republican senators that he won’t