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This post has been corrected. Previously, the post was incorrectly based on an earlier version of the bill. The Military Commissions Act amendments to the

Yesterday, reports emerged that liberal Democrats won’t push too hard to assist illegal immigrants under health care reform as long as the White House commits

I’d like to think that this symbolizes some good old-fashioned traditional conservatism making a comeback in the GOP, said Ron Paul spokesman Jesse Benton.

There’s going to be a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and, for once, it won’t involve the tea parties. The Washington Post reports that

If you’re a legislator crafting a bailout for the auto industry in the middle of a national recession, you’d probably tweak it in such a way that U.S.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released draft findings in its ongoing investigation of contaminated well water near natural gas drilling in Pavillion, Wyo. The draft report “indicates detection of synthetic chemicals … consistent with gas production and hydraulic fracturing fluids.” Louis Meeks’ well water near Pavillion, Wyo., contains methane gas, hydrocarbons, lead and copper (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

We ran a piece this morning examining some lawmakers’ concerns about the future of the $2 billion that was plucked from a renewable energy loan guarantee

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) wanted to know why Gen. Stanley McChrystal was giving speeches in London -- a speech seen as detrimental and even divisive -- and 60

If we are successful, what does that mean to the bringing home of troops? asked Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) during today’s Senate Armed Services Committee

Damian Paletta at The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is likely to file cloture on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.)

TWI’s David Weigel went head-to-head with The American Prospect’s Tim Fernholz on bloggingheads.tv yesterday, discussing a wide range of topics, from the

Most campaign finance reform advocates are calling for greater restrictions -- or at least stricter disclosure requirements -- on donations from outside groups

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of the NATO alliance, told an audience at Georgetown University today that this year the alliance’s military

BOSTON -- A surprising discovery at yesterday’s People’s Rally in Worcester was just how many people had traveled into the state to assist, in whatever way,

Ben Wetmore, the 28-year-old conservative activist whom James O’Keefe called a mentor, has stayed out of the headlines since it was revealed that he housed

Patrick Thibodeau of ComputerWorld reports that one result of the administration’s crackdown on employers using H-1B (non-immigrant skilled worker) visas is

It’s not the five years of additional funding many advocates were hoping for, but the Senate’s compromise on health reform does include money to extend the

Following up on my earlier post on the FBI’s longstanding problems with putting terror suspects on its terror watchlist, I just got off the phone with FBI

For most of the Republican presidential contenders, Occupy Wall Street and its assorted spin-offs such as Occupy Denver are bad news. Occupiers have been characterized essentially as lazy bums and their message as a cry for class warfare

As a dramatic feature, yesterday’s high-profile health care summit in Washington was a flop. That is, for all the breathtaking headlines inspired by the

For a random person with no role in the presidential election, William Ayers has drawn plenty of political attention lately. We try to focus on real issues