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Earlier today I was chatting with a Pentagon official -- anonymously, of course -- about the Defense Department’s forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget. My source

Today, Neal Wolin, the deputy secretary of the Treasury, gave a speech to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s annual conference in Baltimore, and

Here’s how Young America’s Foundation spokesman Jason Mattera reacted (on Facebook) to the first batch of senatorial statements about Supreme Court nominee

After its executives spied on immigrant farmworkers and slandered them on-line to fight a grass-roots campaign for better pay and working conditions,

Schwarzenegger joins a growing list of Republicans voicing support for health care reform. Overdraft fees shoot up 35 percent in just two years. Wellpoint

The Census Bureau today released figures indicating that 46.3 million folks living in the U.S. lacked health care coverage in 2008, up from 45.7 million the

In his concession speech on the lawn of the Arizona Biltmore Tuesday night, Sen. John McCain graciously pledged his support to President-elect Barack

President Obama’s call to expand offshore drilling just a few weeks before the Deepwater Horizon calamity -- a call intended to rally Republicans behind a

With Joe Miller looking like he might steal the Alaska GOP senate from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), Jonathan Chait asks whether this means the Tea Party has put yet

Scott Horton at Harper’s has posted a helpful roundup of the latest developments in the increasingly bizarre case of Binyam Mohamed in the United

Earlier this morning I referred to a written statement given to Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) from Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Rep. Charles Rangel, the animated but controversial head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, has decided to step down -- at least temporarily -- from his

This morning, President Obama addressed today’s Department of Labor report showing the unemployment rate rose in August to 9.6 percent. Obama focused on the

Rand Paul came out swinging against the Environmental Protection Agency this weekend, arguing that President Obama is forcing the EPA down out throats. The

Are we making up for our DOT pick? President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Rep. Hilda Solis to head the Dept. of Labor, according to reports. The California

Good help may be hard to find, but when it comes to security staff for this summer’s national political conventions, it’s apparently just this side

A Canadian company hoping to revive the long-dormant uranium mining hotbed of southwestern Colorado is touting an economic report prepared for Montrose County showing world uranium demand is expected to double in the coming year, according to the Telluride Daily Planet . But opponents of Energy Fuels’ proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill – what would be the nation’s first new processing facility in nearly three decades if it’s ever built – don’t put much stock in the new economic report produced for Montrose County by Economic & Planning Systems, Inc .

According to a podcast recorded by the Birthers who are walking around Washington handing out Citizen’s Grand Jury presentments, they’re delivering a package

A last-minute Bush era rule upends immigrant rights to re-open a case if they could show that they were denied a fair hearing due to their lawyer’s mistakes.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the new ranking Republican on the the Senate Judiciary Committee, just made quite clear the pressure on Homeland Security

Via Danger Room, it appears the Blackwater private security company has gone in for a bit of cynical rebranding: Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its