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Way way back in the spring, when it became clear that the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay were going to render verdicts by the fall, a number of liberal

A source close to the presidential transition just confirmed to me that Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff who stood up to Donald Rumsfeld and told the

That story Barbara Slavin broke about retired Marine Gen. Tony Zinni being promised the next ambassadorship to Iraq only to have the offer abruptly rescinded?

Via Greg Sargent, the Rasmussen Reports poll on 2012 Republican candidates finds most Republican voters trusting Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) on national

A new report commissioned by the Center for American Progress finds that oil industry contracts with universities to conduct energy research may not adequately

Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo reports that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has signed Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s letter in opposition to the

Today, the Obama administration announced it will spend $3 billion more to help jobless homeowners. First, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is

In recent weeks, the media has linked Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb.) opposition to health reform directly to the abortion language in the bill -- as if satisfying

Six years and no filed charges later, Sami Al Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman, is released from Guantanamo Bay. The New York Times: The Pentagon several times

No real surprise that progressive Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) would be appalled by the inspectors general report on warrantless surveillance, but this is news

Massey CEO Don Blankenship said this week that piling up safety violations is simply a part of mining coal. He wasn’t kidding. The Freedom # 1 Mine, a

With mounting evidence of robo-signing and other alleged fraud perpetrated by banks, foreclosure law firms and others, Fannie Mae and Flagstar Bank have filed a new defense of such actions in Ingham County Circuit Court — and Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. is crying foul. “What they are basically saying is they can forge an assignment and there is nothing the citizen or court can do about it

In an email to supporters last night, former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-Conn.), who had been leading Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) in the polls until the five-term

One of the back stories in The Washington Post’s account of the current Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy debate presented by some anonymous administration

This one came to me earlier today from USFOR-A, the U.S. military command in Afghanistan: There was no involvement of coalition or ISAF forces in the attack

After the August electoral impasse destroyed the partnership of Kai Eide and Peter Galbraith, the United Nations’ top diplomats in Afghanistan, it’s been

Last updated April 22. On Monday, April 5, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers and raised new questions about

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Insanity is the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded terrorism alert system, which tells you nothing except that people are capable of coloring

Last week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) threatened a Republican boycott of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s markup of the Kerry-Boxer climate

Ha’aretz correspondents Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff think Israel, despite the apocalyptic rhetoric, is actually prepared to pull back when the Air Force

Coal industry defenders were quick to blast the EPA’s intervention as a threat to jobs.

No, really. Via Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that more and more people are being picked up and tossed in jail to satisfy