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What the judge is intending to do is adjourn, basically stop the hearing for a four-week period after the government completes presenting its evidence, Khadr’s attorney said.

The Washington Post editorial page is a perennial bugaboo for progressive blogs and think tanks -- with editor Fred Hiatt taking fire for, among many choices,

Lynn Bartels has the scoop: Colorado Republicans, including state party chairman Dick Wadhams, are revolting over the discovery that the National Republican

Protesters at Saturday’s ICE/Corrections Corporation of America community meeting (Pic by Marcos Restrepo) Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis said at a recent community forum that his city does not have a vote in the decision to build a proposed immigration detention center in his area, but PolitiFact Florida rates his claim “mostly false.” PolitiFact writes that the town of Southwest Ranches penned the deal with the prison operator, and Pines didn’t get an up or down vote on whether the facility should be built. But it’s not as if Pines has been in the dark here. Ortis, along with the rest of the commission, voted to provide services to the prison in 2011.

Marc Ambinder has a seriously detailed curtain-raiser on a turf war that’s roiled the intelligence community for months. Dennis Blair, the director of national

Right. In Texas giving a commencement speech at A&M. As some folks are pointing out this morning, it brings to mind another time when Bush was reading to

The Aug. 27, 2009 episode of Glenn Beck on Fox News was television beyond description. I’ll just focus on the closing segment. Beck, having spent four days

After the jump, the anti-health care mandate lawsuit introduced today in the Northern District of Florida by 13 state attorneys general. Only one, Louisiana’s

What if, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) wants to know, if Gen. Stanley McChrystal thinks he’ll need additional troops for Afghanistan after another round of

Two weeks ago, Bob Woodward reported that Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, flew to Afghanistan to tell commanders not to request more

You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian

The Colorado Independent’s Ernest Luning passes along this rather remarkable quote from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), speaking earlier today at an event in

First appeared September 8, 2008 WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church,

Some people worried about the environmental degradation involved in pumping water from a spring to a truck filling station, and then sending those trucks, dozens a day, from Buena Vista to Denver to satiate the world’s seeming insatiable demand for water in little plastic bottles. Others were concerned about potential damage to the aquifer. Others thought the whole approval process was a little whack.

Here’s a sentence you don’t see much these days: A new newspaper will hit the streets Thursday.

On Tuesday, Rep. Tim Walz joined all but one of his Minnesota DFL colleagues in support of a repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the federal government from recognizing legally married same-sex couples

As expected, President Obama this morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into effect this

David Espo of the Association Press says that the part of President Obama’s jobs bill that includes another extension of federal unemployment benefits is likely to pass the U.S.

After months of whining, a resignation letter delivered on the op-ed page of The New York Times and warnings of a massive corporate brain drain, only 16

Tony McDonald, senior vice chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas, credits his organization with helping craft the language of state Rep. Wayne

In response to the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision earlier this year, Democrats are now pushing legislation designed to limit the