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Doug Feith was just asked about Jim Haynes’ 2002 memo on what tactics are legal in interrogation. He says in his recommendations in April 2003, what was

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed tighter restrictions on enviro-friendly claims in advertising and on food packaging. The guidelines haven’t been

The Daily Telegraph reports that some of the photos of prisoner abuse that President Obama has refused to release -- after earlier promising to make them public

This morning we ran a piece anticipating the difficulties facing Democratic leaders as they try to make good on their progressive campaign promises during a

Shorter GOP: there has never been a more important time than the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack on an airplane to ensure the Transportation Security

As expected, Republicans this weekend already began threatening trouble for Democrats if President Obama nominates someone left of mainstream to succeed Supreme

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) An Everglades restoration task force meeting today is expected to unveil a new plan to fast-track restoration in South Florida’s “River of Grass.” According to McClatchy , the plan will look at ways to reduce pollution that is damaging the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries, and provide more natural flows throughout the Central Everglades.

In the latest issue of The Nation, Andrew Ross looks into the strange allegiance between climate fears and nativism. It’s worth checking out the whole piece,

Tom Ricks, preparing for today’s Pentagon subcabinet-official hearings, muses: It’ll be interesting to watch the Armed Services Committee hearing today on

Here’s an interesting detail/admission from Michael O’Brien’s interview with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho): Crapo said that he credited the August recess protests

Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is telling reporters that he has the votes of two Republicans for his extension of federal unemployment

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

I happened to be at a lunch with Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, when news broke that former Senate Majority

The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee axed three Republican immigration bills Monday. Like many times this session, the committee, on a party-line vote, turned down legislation that targeted voting accessibility and immigration concerns

He may not survive the upcoming U.K. election, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech today in Parliament arguing against any strategy for Afghanistan

Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), widely seen as a conservative dark horse candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination, is going on the air with a national TV ad

Following up on our piece this month about how payday lenders have found a friend in Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) -- who’s pushing legislation that caps

The Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily ceased clean-up operations of last year’s massive oil spill since last week because of storms and high flood levels on the Kalamazoo River. Mark Durno, deputy incident commander for the EPA response in Calhoun, tells Michigan Messenger the decision to stop clean up work was made because the river is nearly as high as it was last July 25 when Enbridge Energy Partners’ Lakehead Pipeline 6B ruptured , spewing an estimated one million gallons of Cold Lake crude oil into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.

After some confusion over what the party would do, the GOP will offer a privileged resolution calling for an investigation of the Democratic leadership’s

Human Life International has revamped its website, prochoiceviolence.com . According to the group, the site “provides extensive research on the surprising amount of violence perpetrated by abortionists and the proponents of ‘choice,’ compared to the relatively few violent crimes committed by ‘pro-life’ advocates.” # The site includes a 35-page introduction that explains things such as “the difference between ‘pro-life’ violence and ‘pro-choice’ violence” and how “the pro-life movement the most peaceful social movement of all time.” The site says that “homosexual activists… environmental and animal rights activists… anti-apartheid activists… communists… and unions” are far more violent than “pro-lifers” have been