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I was all set to present this as my newsbreak today, so it’s a good thing I swung by the subscription-only newsletter Inside The Pentagon before I embarrassed

So it seems that Robert Gibbs today inelegantly tried to distinguish between al-Qaeda and the Taliban -- sigh, that shouldn’t have been too difficult -- and in

You can’t raid the Pentagon that way -- those who built the building thought of this -- but you can kill a lot of commuters, especially shortly before 7 on a

From Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks at the unveiling of the State Department portrait of her predecessor, Colin Powell: Colin Powell served as

I’m still reading the Office of Legal Counsel documents from 2005 that blessed CIA torture despite a 2004 withdrawal of earlier OLC opinions blessing torture --

The Michigan State Police have concluded their investigation of threats allegedly made by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon against Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood and an Ingham County Prosecutor and concluded that they were harmless. Shanon Banner, spokesperson for the Michigan State Police issued the following statement on the case late Tuesday: The MSP Major Case Unit has thoroughly investigated this matter and determined it not to be a viable threat.

Not necessarily from the Taliban, but from a military coup responding to the threat the Taliban poses to the viability of Pakistan. Fox News reports that Gen.

A pair of new polls reveal the McCain campaign has some major problems emerging in the typically red state of Virginia. The first poll, from Suffolk University,

Alice Rivlin, a member of Obama’s deficit commission (technically, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform), tells Damian Paletta at The

Free Speech TV invited The Florida Independent’s Virginia Chamlee on yesterday to discuss her recent feature examining the political clout wielded by Florida’s sugar industry. Watch the segment, hosted by Marcy Miranda, below. Chamlee talks about her piece, which zeroes in on Big Sugar, and about the larger series the story is a part of, which you can find out more about at CampaignCash.org

So about the meaning of those two statements on the Afghan presidential runoff from President Obama and Prime Minister Brown. I note Marc Ambinder’s

New York Gov. David Paterson’s (D) office is sifting through thousands of applications by detainees awaiting deportation who hope to be pardoned by the

McFaul falls well below the radar in terms of staffers, but he holds a portfolio of tremendous importance: the reset button on U.S.-Russian relations. As

Anti-abortion-rights organization Americans United for Life has started shopping around a new narrative in its continued effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

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While Roxana Saberi’s imprisonment by the Iranians has attracted widespread international attention, fellow U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, detained

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington apparently thinks the race for Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat is corrupt all around.

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty stopped by The Daily Show Wednesday night to chat with Jon Stewart, continuing his media tour. Pawlenty has appeared on a

Reports Major Garrett: A senior administration official deeply involved in White House deliberations about the future location and judicial venue of Khalid