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The old rule was that we were always shocked by what fascinated us the most. While big British scandals were about sex, big American scandals were about

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

Does it bolster or undermine Mike’s point in his excellent post if I report that next week’s Nuclear Posture Review will be released in its entirety, without

The new Public Policy Polling numbers on the Texas gubernatorial primary have first-time candidate Debra Medina surging against Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) and

Many abortion-rights groups believe Dr. George Tiller’s 1993 shooting and eventual murder in 2009 was in part provoked by a 1991 summer event held in protest

While this post serves, I think, as a good introduction to the next two days’ worth of Capitol Hill testimony on Afghanistan from Gen. Stanley McChrystal and

The Michigan Dept.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) decision to vote aye on the Senate version of health care reform, while not a huge surprise, is hard for Republicans to pin on

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

Two reports released this week state that as part of broad immigration reform, border security and enforcement spending has to be shifted to avoid the ineffective use of billions of taxpayer dollars.

Protesters with Occupy Kalamazoo approached the Kalamazoo City Commission on Monday night to ask the city to waive a $500 daily reservation fee and to waive an ordinance which prohibits sleeping in city parks between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.

The Iowa Family Policy Center, a division of The Family Leader, did not comply with federal-grant protocol when it relinquished the last year of federal funding

Over the weekend, noted blogger/hoax peddler Larry Johnson responded to my post on the anniversary of the Michelle Obama whitey tape with a new theory about

The latest Quinnipiac University poll results are in for Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) re-election bid -- and they’re being cast as a win for the senator, even

<p>I was just reading about John McCain’s campaign visit to Ohio today. McCain and his wife Cindy were joined on the trail by former Sen. Mike DeWine and

One of the most important chapters of the 2006 Army-Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual is the seventh chapter on leadership. In COIN environments,

Milestones don’t always mark what they should. Tomorrow all these things are true: there are 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq; procedures and circumstances and

According to Healthy State, state Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, a member of the Legislative Budget Commission, expects that the committee will accept the millions in Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program grant money allocated to the state by the Affordable Care Act.

It’s the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolutionary capture of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. But instead of the typical anti-American protests, the Iranian

Public workers in Michigan lost job security yesterday as the state House signed off on a bill that allows the governor to appoint people to take over financially troubled local governments and schools and cancel labor contracts. Less than two months after Gov.

I guess there must be a bright side for somebody in any economic downturn, and top bankruptcy lawyers seem to have found it. As hard times hit more businesses,

Are there any judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit without substantial holdings in oil and gas? Not many, notes the Alliance for Justice in