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Following up on our stories earlier this week about the legal vacancy at the National Security Agency, Mark Hosenball at Newsweek finds that the Justice

The Pitkin County commissioners have rekindled the idea of taking a much tougher regulatory stance on natural gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area west of Carbondale, according to the Aspen Times .

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s new radio ad parodies the catastrophic decision of GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava’s husband to call the cops on The

The latest ad offering from the 2012 presidential campaign of U.S. Rep.

Big corporations have been portrayed as the villains in the story of this year’s explosion in campaign spending, unloading vast sums of money to elect

The GOP’s 21-page Pledge to America proposal, released today, is mostly silent on energy policy. In fact, the proposal summarizes Republicans’ energy policy

The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of the race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District has Democratic candidate Bill Owens in the lead, benefiting from the

David C. Gompert, a former RAND Corporation vice president and longtime nonpartisan State and National Security Council official (Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the

The Associated Press reports: Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after

Bill Kristol hears that Rasmussen Reports, the conservative pollster whose surveys have consistently shown the lowest levels of support for the stimulus, is

Marilyn Musgrave, the ultra-conservative Republican congresswoman from Colorado who disappeared for a while after her 2008 defeat, has emerged in the NY-23 to

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the iconoclastic Minnesota congresswoman becomes, as far as I can tell, the first incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party

Not totally clear yet, but it seems that way. From NPR just now: While Iran did not reject the plan outright, state TV said that Tehran was waiting for a

Speaking before Florida’s Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Thursday, oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg faced lingering questions about

The former Congressional Budget Organization head and McCain campaign economic adviser shows up on the host committee for Tim Pawlenty’s Pretzels and Pints

In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today

The CIA said techniques like sleep deprivation worked better when a detainee’s resistance was weakened from hunger.

Members of the occupy movement interrupted U.S.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who was occasionally criticized during the 2008 campaign for lacking foreign policy/national security gravitas, is

On the same day GOP presidential contender Jon Huntsman’s campaign manager resigned, the leader of the anti-abortion rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony

When two African trials last year showed that circumcised men were 60 percent less likely to become infected with HIV than those with foreskins, the World

In an indication of the full-spectrum pressure that the Obama administration is facing on its plan to close Guantanamo Bay, today a coalition of major civil