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Last week I broke the story of a proposal from Stuart Bowen, the inspector general for the Iraq war, to create a new agency for coordinating and directing

Last night I posted a link to investigative actions taken by the U.S. military command in Iraq in 2007 after U.S. forces in Baghdad fired upon individuals who

Ah, a subject dear to my journalistic heart. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said that the Justice Department disclosed to the Senate Judiciary Committee a list of

It’s been a bad week for the markets and Sen. John McCain. Now, after several days of attacks on McCain’s economic policies and overall competence, the Obama

GUANTANAMO BAY -- David Iglesias, who in a previous professional incarnation was a U.S. attorney fired by the Bush administration for insufficient loyalty to

UPDATE: When this piece was posted, we reported that McCain strategist Charlie Black said the North Carolina Republican party would not air the controversial

From the treasure trove of conservative apocalyptic predictions that actually sound pretty good comes this piece today in the neocon magazine, Commentary. The

At least that’s the warning coming from the White House, which today released its annual economic outlook report predicting that an average of 95,000 jobs will

I see what Mark Wuerker is illustrating with this cartoon -- which portrays Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and FreedomWorks’s Dick Armey shedding

A recent string of opinion columns proves just how intense the debate over new water rules proposed by the EPA have become in Florida. # The “numeric nutrient criteria” are currently mandated by the EPA, which has been calling on states to develop stringent measurements of nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen (which cause algal blooms and fish kills) since 1998. In January 2009, following a lawsuit in which a judge determined that the state of Florida was not meeting requirements in the Clean Water Act, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection committed to a deadline to establish numeric criteria in the state. # Despite an extended deadline, the department was unable to draft the criteria in time — forcing the EPA to step in and draft the criteria itself

The old Florida capitol (Pic by Diligent Terrier, via Wikimedia Commons) A patient advocacy group is asking the feds to not grant insurance companies in Florida exemption from profit caps mandated by federal law. Florida’s insurance commissioner recently asked for a waiver of the mandate. Florida CHAIN (Community Health Action Information Network) has asked the U.S.

Laura Bush calls out her husband’s political and press opponents in a new memoir. But former National Security Adviser Frances Townsend refutes Laura Bush’s

The first round of changes from the March health-care reform law take effect today. Yesterday, President Obama, speaking from a Falls Church backyard, touted

With the Christmas recess and the seating of a new Congress looming, the Senate will kick off what should be a make-or-break week for the prospect of extending unemployment benefits and tax cuts by holding a cloture vote at 3 pm on Monday. It is expected that the cloture vote — that’s the vote to end debate and take the real vote — will succeed and so will the bill, which now includes the full compromise reached by President Obama and Republican leaders to extend all of the Bush tax cuts for two years and federal unemployment benefits for one year

Bad day for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. First, she pulls out of the Conservative Political Action Conference. We’re obviously disappointed, said a CPAC

The flood of political spending, coupled with the likely defeat of campaign finance hero Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), is making the elections a pretty grim

Florida Speaker of the House Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park (right) (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, told reporters yesterday that the House plans to join two members of Florida’s congressional delegation in appealing a judge’s decision to reject a lawsuit that sought to block one of Florida’s Fair Districts amendments from taking effect. Cannon has been hit with criticism for the Florida House’s participation in the lawsuit, originally filed by U.S. Reps

Here’s an extra anecdote from my National Tea Party Convention notebook. As I reported (and tweeted) on Saturday night, many people arrived at the Sarah

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) asked about the progress of the civilian surge in Afghanistan, and Ambassador Eikenberry beamed as he answered the question. We’ve