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To hear the Bush administration promote its $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s ailing financial institutions, the impression created is one of dire

Here’s how Young America’s Foundation spokesman Jason Mattera reacted (on Facebook) to the first batch of senatorial statements about Supreme Court nominee

One of the donut holes in last week’s testimony from Justice and Defense Department officials about the Obama administration’s planning for military commissions

A few more points worth noting about the new Military Commissions Act amendments passed by Congress yesterday: Just as the House bill circulating earlier did,

Liberal groups see a successful counterterrorism strategy doing more than ending torture, closing Guantanamo Bay, restricting CIA interrogation practices and curbing domestic spying. It must restore America’s moral stature in the world, and one way to do that is help resolve Arab-Israeli conflicts. The new administration seems receptive to the need for change.

Today’s news that Obama administration officials are touring a Michigan prison as a possible alternative location for detainees now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay

The House Budget Committee this afternoon approved a budget reconciliation bill that jumpstarts the process that Democrats hope will end in the Senate passing

When Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday proposed to an audience at Georgetown University the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to

Today, Neal Wolin, the deputy secretary of the Treasury, gave a speech to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s annual conference in Baltimore, and

Earlier today I was chatting with a Pentagon official -- anonymously, of course -- about the Defense Department’s forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget. My source

Congress looks at inefficiencies in international aid program that is a boon to U.S. growers.

A new study by the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University finds that the U.S Immigration and Customs

While the Florida Department of Health declines to answer questions about oversight of state-funded anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law last week a bill to require similar centers there to disclose information about their practices to patients .

Good catch by the New York Times: This morning, in opening remarks on the floor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell began by ticking off amendments that

The Radiance Foundation, the group that recently unveiled a series of anti-abortion billboard in Oakland, Calif., has unveiled another set of ads directed at the African-American community. According to a press release , the group will put up no fewer than 50 billboards throughout metro and downtown Atlanta, in an effort to expose what they call “the epidemic of abortion.” # The billboards liken abortion to slavery, proclaiming, “The 13th Amendment freed us. Abortion enslaves us,” with a link to the foundation’s TooManyAborted.com.

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What’s going on with the Afghanistan insurgent-reconciliation process? Last month, the Kabul government seemed disinclined to deal with the leadership of the