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The Justice Department on Thursday again delayed disclosure of three critical legal memos written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the Justice Department’s

Leadership in the U.S.

LONGMONT– The right and left protesters and counter-protesters gathered here off a sprawling suburban four-lane road and around a wall-less field house at the Boulder County Fairgrounds agreed on at least two things: that the group hosting the gathering, Americans for Prosperity , is suffering an image problem and that government subsidies to oil and gas companies have got to end.

Reports that the Obama administration will appoint the assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Bush administration, Daniel Fried, as a

The Senate voted this afternoon to grant the incoming Obama administration the remaining $350 billion from the Wall Street bailout -- sans restrictions. The

Let it never be said that President Obama is cutting defense. Obama’s budget outline today doesn’t really include the defense budget. What it includes is the

Yesterday, we ran a piece pointing out that there’s really nothing stopping lawmakers, congressional staffers and other government employees from using the

NEW ULM — Flanked by New Ulm Mayor Bob Beussman, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak joined local city officials from south central Minnesota Wednesday to warn local residents about the crippling effects of potential cut to Local Government Aid (LGA) under the tax bill that Gov

In the wake of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine earlier this week, Mike Lillis dug through federal records and wrote a piece, published this

By any objective telling, the Democrats have been nothing if not kind to business since Barack Obama’s election. They’ve bailed out the banks with hundreds of

Should we lift restrictions on Cuban-American family travel back to Cuba? Yes, says Clinton. Cuban-Americans are the best ambassadors for democracy, freedom

The campaign of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who’s got less of a cash problem than almost anyone running for office in 2012 (he has millions left over from his

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Community Health issued a letter to local health departments Friday which “strongly encourages” those public bodies to cease using Client Acknowledgment forms that are legally inaccurate. The documents are used ostensibly to inform newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons of their legal responsibility under Michigan law to inform sexual partners of their status or face possible felony charges

The New York Times has a good round-up of opinions today on the impact of Pentagon official Susan Crawford’s admission yesterday that Mohammad al-Qahtani was

Liberals cried betrayal when House Democrats altered how underwater homeowners can seek help in bankruptcy court, but a quiet movement in the Senate could mean much higher hurdles for mortgage holders.

Though they have accepted billions in federal bailout funds, banks are not required to ensure foreclosures don’t drag down surrounding communities.

Afghanistan’s defense minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, can return home from this week’s U.S-Afghan-Pakistani meetings in Washington with full swagger. His

With an eye on reclaiming a U.S.

As we’ve pointed out, passage of the House climate change proposal last month wouldn’t have happened without the liberal sponsors first bowing to the demands of

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is still trying to raise money to pay off old debts. James Carville, the Democratic

Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, a critic of the CIA’s Predator drone program in the Pakistani tribal areas, writes: I worry that the CIA

After introducing his family -- all of whom seem to be there, I guess this is a big deal or something -- Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder began his opening