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A few years ago, a pal of mine named Malcolm Nance testified to a congressional panel about how he was waterboarded. Nance used to instruct Naval Special Forces

In a few moments, the Senate will hold a procedural vote setting the stage for final passage of legislation extending unemployment insurance benefits. Leading

Republican lawyer Barbara Comstock, a candidate for a swing House of Delegates seat in northern Virginia, is holding a fundraiser tomorrow in Washington with a

Building a Better Ohio – a right-leaning group supporting Senate Bill 5 and Issue 2 – is out with a new campaign ad featuring Kyle Farmer, a teacher in the Liberty-Union Thurston School District. What the ad doesn’t disclose is that Farmer is also chair of the Fairfield County Republican Party, who describes himself on Twitter as a wannabe political operative.

James Blunt might have prevented World War III. Facebook kills Gmail (maybe) with a new email service. John McCain finds a new reason to oppose repealing

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Not even rainy weather could stop Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) from enjoying an hour-long ceremony that concluded with the signing of H.202, a law that creates a

The Senate today voted to confirm Thomas E. Perez to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. The

When I talked to Andrew Breitbart for today’s story on the British press, the man behind Big Hollywood talked at length at how, in his view, political liberals

Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the

The reconciliation fix addresses issues ranging from funding mechanisms to Medicaid rates.

This morning, a little, wonky blog post is creating a lot of controversy. Economics of Contempt writes: Here’s a scary thought: Let’s say the European

I don’t have the actual document yet, but here’s the White House’s just-released summary of the executive order on interrogations. Executive Order revokes

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla

The Treasury Department’s report on the progress -- or lack of it -- among servicers doing loan modifications makes it seem like the Obama administration is

The news on Friday that Blackwater Worldwide (now known as Xe Services) participated in clandestine CIA operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that included

Ah, Alberto Gonzales. After the then-Attorney General presented a slippery account to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2007 of, among other subjects, the

Nathan Hodge, in Afghanistan for Danger Room, reported last week that U.S. officials in Kabul don’t like to refer to the planned near-doubling of civilian

The Arkansas governor-cum-TV host’s poem Fancy Nancy gets at how rote the Republican calls for the Speaker of the House to step down are becoming. Huckabee

So hinted Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who told a crowd gathered this week for an annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that the House might

On his last day as head of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who has historically had a good relationship with the city’s LGBT community, is giving one final token

Doug Hoffman, he failed Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election is clearly relishing the surprise twist in his election -- errors in the

Early on the evening of July 9, a former Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter found herself standing outside the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in midtown New