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Marc Lynch flags -- and argues with -- an apparent position taken by Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, in favor of taking until the end of

Check out this Bmaz post at Emptywheel about a rumor circulating through Arabic-language media that Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, a member of al-Qaeda who was tortured at

Here’s an interesting tip I just got from American Rights At Work about the Republican’s vociferous opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, based on its

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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) doubled down on his anti-ACORN activism at today’s Big Government press conference. Video below the jump.

Dave Catanese of Politico reports U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) will likely run for a fourth term in 2012 after losing the 2010 gubernatorial primary

Related to our piece today on the silence of Congress even in the face of surging gun violence, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne this morning is asking a

Early in today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on President-elect Obama’s Pentagon subcabinet nominees, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for

From Roxana Tiron at The Hill: Federal law enforcement officials have subpoenaed the congressional and campaign offices of Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) to get

If there were a healthy or coherent relationship between civilian and military efforts in war zones or weak states or post-conflict environments, there wouldn’t

Here’s new video released from Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s command in Afghanistan of McChrystal issuing post-speech strategic guidance to some of his deputies. He

The United States in 2010 slipped to third in the world in the amount of private capital invested in the clean energy sector, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts . The U.S. saw $34 billion in private equity invested in the sector last year, a 51 percent jump from 2009, but China received $54.4 billion, increasing the lead it’s held over the U.S.

At a noon press conference in Raleigh on Tuesday, North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul “Skip” Stam said that laws that bar polygamy and incest are the

The possibility prompts fervent opposition from Republicans, who say the 9/11 terrorists should never be allowed anywhere on U.S. soil, let alone in a civilian U.S. court.

Even as the second half of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout funding is on its way to the White House, House lawmakers this afternoon voted to disapprove its

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum indicated Tuesday that his Iowa campaign is getting a boost from activists that are no longer certain they should be supporting other 2012 candidates like U.S. Rep.

Add to the immigration debate following yesterday’s White House meetings a few recently published studies that could prove to be useful in pushing for

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A source from the convening authority for the military commissions just informed the press corps that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has