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The ACLU of Colorado Thursday announced it has endorsed the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol. “In Colorado we believe our laws should be practical and they should be fair. Yet we are wasting scarce public resources in our criminal justice system by having police, prosecutors and the courts treat marijuana users like violent criminals

It turns out $20 billion may not be enough to compensate the victims of the massive Gulf oil spill. Kenneth Feinberg, the White House appointee charged with

Former U.S. Rep.

Media Matters does a good rundown on a conservative meme that had, frankly, perplexed me -- fear of President Obama banning sport fishing.

The House approved a three-week continuing resolution on Tuesday, according to Roll Call. The stopgap spending measure, which passed 271-158, will keep the

Rep. Chip Cravaack is facing yet another ad campaign from progressive groups.

As prepared for delivery: I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years,

I just got off the phone with David Brian Brown, the St. Louis, Mo., lawyer who has appeared with Kenneth Gladney, the black man who claims he was beaten up by

Big day for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the gun-control front. First she introduced a bill to prohibit foreign felons from buying firearms; now she’s

At the heart of the current foreclosure fraud scandal is an obscure piece of paper -- dramatically titled the note -- that proves how much a borrower owes a

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a survey by the Georgia Restaurant Association revealed widespread worker shortages in the state’s $14.1 billion

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) got off to a rocky start in her relationship with her state’s Hispanic community, but on the day President Obama nominated

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) made this point about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charges that the CIA misled Congress about torture: On that specific

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Both Eli Lake and Greg Miller report that President Obama personally asked Steve Kappes last year to remain the CIA’s deputy director. Kappes’ boss, Leon

In a stark departure from the current White House, the president-elect warns of hard choices ahead as U.S. seeks to pull back from financial disaster. After short-term spending to right the economy, Obama looks to long-term spending cuts.

Alabama’s new immigration law has been called the most far-reaching of the state-level efforts at cracking down on undocumented immigrants. But of all the

The Washington Pos t recently reported that some Republicans in the U.S. Senate are vowing to hold up legislation until the chamber finds a way to seriously cut spending and overhaul the budget. One of them is Marco Rubio , who is making the fight about President Barack Obama and drawing cheers from the conservative gallery. # “You cannot solve issues of this magnitude without presidential leadership,” he told conservative radio jockey Mark Levin during a discussion of the national debt.

The word of the moment on righty blogs is rude. Liberals on the National Mall were rude for booing and then singing Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye to