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Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) filed his appeal of the Senate election contest with the Minnesota Supreme Court today, arguing that “widespread

’24’ is hardly a template for counterinsurgency, as it glorifies brutality, particularly toward Muslims who may or may not be terrorists, rather than emphasizes

After Matt Corley of ThinkProgress picked up my post about Jason Mattera’s tongue-in-cheek ghetto joke about Sonia Sotomayor, Mattera posted a response at

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Both civil libertarians and ex-CIA officials involved in interrogations and detentions policies welcome the changes.

March will bring the beginning of the British army’s withdrawal from Iraq, a move that will the current force of 4,100 down to roughly 400 by the summer. As

While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama -- particularly on Obama’s connection to

An interesting admission in Benjy Sarlin’s interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP’s brainy ranking member on the House Budget Committee who’s been

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrong to cut monitoring for radiation with the nuclear disaster in Japan still unfolding , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said this week.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer (Pic via ice.gov) The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to implement prosecutorial discretion measures laid out in a June 2011 memo issued by John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE).

Politico reports an outrageous twist to the already-absurd tale of the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), convicted this fall on seven counts of

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, James Surowiecki weighs in on something TWI wrote about recently: The need for a new -- and bolder -- foreclosure

“We’re dealing with local contractors on a daily basis and they’re not getting the work,” says Barry Kaufman of the Construction and General Laborers Union Local 689. “There are more out-of-state contractors in here than holes in cheese.

Tom Murse reports on a town hall meeting held by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) where the congressman chastised his own side. One thing I think is being misrepresented

In the wake of yesterday’s news that long-time conservative columnist Robert Novak is retiring pending treatment for brain cancer, most reports today are

Low inflation is good news, unless that low inflation reflects price deflation in every sector other than food and fuel. Then, it’s not so great.

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- The final Siena poll (pdf) of the NY-23 special election is out, and while it finds Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman leading

It seems all those deficit hawks have the country spooked. A new Gallup poll says that terrorism and the national debt now rank evenly -- above health care