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The Iraqi government shows signs of increasing impatience with Blackwater guards getting hired by other private security firms: A top Iraqi official said

After wrapping up a Miami rally on Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show, appearing via satellite in front of a

Some good reading today in The Washington Post, which got its hands on transcripts depicting reactions from some AIG employees when their bonuses were

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet said Wednesday night that he supports President Obama’s plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan

A pair of bills which would require public employers and contractors and subcontractors of public employers to register with and use the E-Verify system to ferret out undocumented workers are on their way to action on the House floor. The bills, HB 4024 and HB 4026 , were approved by the House Commerce Committee on Tuesday. While the bills’ sponsor, Rep.

Attorney General Eric Holder had a testy exchange yesterday with House Republicans determined to paint him as weak for his faith in civilian courts that have

Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an unholy alliance between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting

Economist Dean Baker isn’t happy about seeing people like Larry Summers and Robert Rubin surrounding President-elect Barack Obama as he consults experts on the

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The firm faces a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad.

The new administration has assumed the awkward position of arguing that the case against John Yoo -- whose opinions Obama administration officials have harshly criticized -- should be dismissed.

Joe Miller ad says Murkowski is not a witch, but might be Voldemort. Liberal? It might be genetics. Obama says he might evolve his same-sex marriage

The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board voted Tuesday to maintain its current policies regarding disclosure for ballot campaigns. The board’s rulings have come under heightened scrutiny in recent months as the board works to adjust its policies to new laws passed in 2010. The board has been receiving feedback from both anti-gay marriage amendment supporters that want as little disclosure as possible and open government groups that favor full disclosure

After all the controversial distractions surrounding the health care debate to date -- the claims of death panels, pulling the plug on grandma, etc. -- it’s

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) Fifty-six organizations sent a letter to President Obama yesterday asking him to clarify his position on the ability of publicly funded institutions to hire or fire people based on their religion. Catholics for Choice and 55 other religious, civil rights, labor and health groups sent a letter (.pdf) to Obama asking him to comment on remarks he made “at a town hall meeting on July 22 in College Park, MD,” according to the group’s press release . The groups took issue with a the president suggesting “that he supports allowing religious organizations to hire and fire employees in federally funded positions based upon the employee’s religion”: This statement is in direct contradiction to comments he made while campaigning for the presidency.

Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument. It relieves the U.S. from dependency on foreign oil, some reports say, and it reduces the pollution spewed out the tailpipe

In my piece a few weeks ago about the rudderlessness of GOP foreign policy, I mentioned a National Journal item reporting that several of the neoconservative

Mike Allen at Politico reports that President Barack Obama will unveil the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2010, a presidential check on Congressional

After a pair of Sen. Barack Obama’s advisers published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today clarifying the presumed Democratic nominee’s tax policy, the

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I just talked to Joshua Muravchik, a former American Enterprise Institute scholar who was fired last year in what Jacob Heilbrunn described as a purge of