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I’ve been remiss in linking to Alan Riquelmy’s report on a brutal court loss for Orly Taitz, the birther lawyer whose fame seems to be at the 14:59 mark. It’s

First it was health insurers; now it looks like coal companies are hoping to take advantage of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling earlier this year.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a Republican, took a markedly softer tone on illegal immigration during an interview yesterday than some of his fellow GOP

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on March 26, 2009. An anonymous official quoted in

Nuclear power courts new friends as it pushes for subsidies in the Senate’s sweeping climate bill.

He says all the right things, doesn’t he? Here’s President Obama from tonight’s speech, on American values, justice and torture: To overcome extremism,

Alabama State Sen. Rusty Glover (R-Mobile) says reports of Hispanic and immigrant families taking their children out of school and leaving the state because of

A coordinated effort is underway to dismantle judicial merit selection processes across the country, the head of the Iowa ACLU says, threatening the independence of the judicial branch in the Hawkeye State and beyond. Ben Stone, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, said that would leave people accused of crimes “in a horrid position.” “They want people that are terrified of public opinion, because they know they can manipulate public opinion to get what they want,” Stone said

PolitiFact, the nonpartisan fact-checking arm of the St. Petersburg Times, this week evaluated key talking points about the federal budget made by both

Late yesterday, smart Republican Web guru Patrick Ruffini sent out an invitation to join a Facebook page that protests the proposed Republican National

Top officials from Kabul, Islamabad hope to have a say in the Obama administration’s new blend of diplomatic, developmental and military approaches for the two countries.

Bonner & Associates says that while they may be responsible for the 13 other forged letters to Congress, they’re not to blame for fake letter No. 14 that

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Conservatives are smiling this morning about a Wall Street Journal piece claiming that President Obama, in his health reform speech to Congress last week,

Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater’s most dogged journalistic pursuer, has an absolute monster story in The Nation about the Joint Special Operations Command

Fresh out the inbox: Muslim tradition dictates a child born of a Muslim father is automatically of the same faith. If that child denounces the faith he is

The Big Picture offers a nice rundown of all the gloomy auto sales news today. Note that nearly all the major car manufacturers made the list of companies

Brandeis University’s Micah Zenko has an interesting op-ed in The Boston Globe looking at the stepped-up use of missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets in

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory last night over Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary, pundits are asking how in the world she did

An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and other conservative groups calls