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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) leads the charge against Attorney General Eric Holder’s effort to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in civilian court. But when it comes

At the Pentagon press briefing to roll out the Nuclear Posture Review -- read the entire document, all of it unclassified, here -- Defense Secretary Robert

I’ve been re-reading Clash of Dynasties, the twelfth chapter of Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson’s campaign history The Battle for America, which is all about

Rand Paul blasts Obama’s un-American criticism of British Petroleum. NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions takes the fall for the GOP loss in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania

It’s official. Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the director of the Joint Staff and a former corps commander in Iraq under Gens. David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno,

Today Attorney General Michael Mukasey preempted a vote by the House Oversight Committee to hold him in criminal contempt. President George W. Bush asserted

Forbes magazine has an article about a new report that looks at a new market developing for companies that are inventing techniques to clean up the toxic liquid mix recovered from hydrofracking natural gas wells. The report focuses mostly on the Marcellus Shale, which underlies most of the Appalachian basin under New York, Pennsylvania, and parts of Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia

One of the more disturbing appendices to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture comes from the Office of Medical Services. On September 4, 2003, the

So says the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who heads the Senate Finance Committee. The bill would extend the filing deadline for the existing tiers of

The arrest in Pakistan of five northern Virginia young men at a safe house belonging to the anti-India terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed underscores fears of

Roll Call reports: Mexican President Felipe Calderon called for the reinstatement of a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the U.S. while reiterating his

Let me start off by noting that not everyone agrees increasing troop levels in Afghanistan is a solution to the deteriorating situation there. Maybe yes, maybe

We know that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), burned by voter anger over his coziness with Wall Street, received only $4,250 in

The Michigan Catholic Conference is slamming the Legislature for passing a 48-month lifetime cash assistance limit without considering the impact on the 25,000 kids whose already destitute families will be kicked off aid Oct. 1.

WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the

Politico’s Laura Rozen obtained a formal dissent filed by a senior USAID development economist, C. Stuart Callison, against the development approach for

The conservative web forum Lucianne.com (named after founder/Clinton scandal bit player Lucianne Goldberg, who launched it a decade ago after a split with

After threatening 450 amendments and other delays, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee appear to be playing ball, and against all odds, it

In the end, every Democrat* and eight Republicans voted for cloture on Harold Koh’s nomination for legal adviser to the State Department. The Republicans: Lamar

The New York Times has picked up on the Bagram detainee story I wrote about two weeks ago, ratcheting up the pressure on the Obama administration to start