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The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently back from brokering Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s acquiescence to a runoff election, is

Within moments of Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, it was all over the airwaves: Obama’s pick had claimed that Latina women

Over the weekend, David Kotok of Cumberland Investors, a much-watched CNBC market analyst, put out a very gloomy analysis of the economic impact of the BP

Something I couldn’t figure out for my piece yesterday on the 2007 memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel about CIA interrogations: why

Interviews with officials in Washington and Kabul reveal a contracting process in which it is remarkably difficult to deny a contract to a security company involved in numerous civilian deaths and possible fraud.

The federal government has asked the federal court in Detroit to drop one charge against a member of a Christian militia arrested in March of 2010.

When the serious (Republican) guys (sorry gals) in Congress introduce a bill just so they can vote it down, you have to turn to the funny guys to make sense of it all. That’s the way it was with the debt ceiling this week. Thursday night, Stephen Colbert nailed it hard, and got a laugh to boot

The Department of Justice today announced new guidelines for federal prosecutions of medical marijuana, indicating a new leniency in states that have legalized

U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul is holding a 3 p.m. rally in Lexington, Ky. to support Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) block on extending unemployment and health

NASHVILLE -- The author and Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan -- one of very few African-Americans present at the National Tea Party Convention -- used a short

The Iowa Independent reports that earlier this week, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.),

Former state Sen. Tarryl Clark of St. Cloud says she is moving to Duluth in order to take on freshman Rep

Among the many hot-button issues that President Obama weighed in on during his presidential campaign and followed up on in his first week in office, immigration

Freshman Democrat Alan Grayson, a bit of an iconoclast who’s backing Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) Audit the Fed bill, appeared on the out-there Alex Jones show

To thousands of unemployed folks, two very different events are conspiring to pose an imminent threat to their federal benefits: (1) The deadline to file for

All week I’ve been noticing pushback from conservatives on stories about angry threats to members of Congress who voted for health care reform, but nothing

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Something that couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday but bears mentioning: Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia,