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In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn’t regret the substance of any

Maybe it was the allusion to chickenman. Maybe it was simply bad communication.

Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, a Democratic national-security eminence certain to have the new administration’s ear, kicks off a panel on

The latest in high-minded criticism from National Review’s in-house conspiracy theorist Andy McCarthy. He’s infuriated because Jennifer Daskal from Human Rights

A group whose founding members include powerhouses in Texas higher education announced its formation in the wake of controversies over university proposals

Perhaps the strangest thing about the National Tea Party Convention’s quasi-blackout on media coverage is the innocuous nature of the stuff organizers don’t

So this is what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) meant when he said he was canceling the week-long Columbus Day recess to work on health care reform.

Last week’s Government Accountability Office report on the trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexico has inspired quite a backlash from gun enthusiasts who contend

The U.S. Department of Labor’s latest weekly unemployment report shows another sizable decrease in the number of new unemployment claims, down to 368,000. In the week ending Feb

See this guy? Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David Heinz? He’s the program manager for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a program plagued by cost overruns. Robert Gates,

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has invited Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to testify on his

More than a dozen Republicans introduced a bill in the Minnesota House Thursday aimed at authorizing the sale of “Choose Life” license plates in Minnesota, with sales revenue going to groups that oppose abortion. The bill is nearly identical to one passed in 2003 in Florida, one of 23 states that produces the plates. But as the Florida Independent found, tracking where funds raised through the license plate sales wasn’t an easy task.

President Obama will meet with pro-immigration reform Democrats -- Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) --

U.S. population growth is petering out, with future growth to come mostly through immigration from developing countries, according to a report released today by

Via Danger Room, it appears the Blackwater private security company has gone in for a bit of cynical rebranding: Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its

A district court Judge in Ohio yesterday rejected a lawsuit from the Susan B. Anthony List, which argued an Ohio elections law prohibiting false claims was

Florida state Senate President Mike Haridopolos announced in December his bid for U.S. Senate in 2012, becoming the first Republican opponent to Democratic U.S.