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Forgive me if I’m going over ground other people have covered, but as I was going through the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel torture memos for something else, I

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) is scheduled to announce his retirement today, according to multiple media outlets. His decision complicates Democratic efforts to

Glenn Reynolds responds: SORRY, STILL NOT SEEING THE ANEURYSM CONNECTION. Weigel’s snark notwithstanding, it was a weak point. Eh, I’ll grant this. As

That’s according to a just-released statement from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: The White House has indicated

<p>&nbsp;Dien Judge over at <em>Iowa Independent</em> has some video that captures Huckabee&rsquo;s surge in popularity in

Kate Zernike has written a fascinating piece on the bare-knuckled political activism of the National Precinct Alliance, formed to make sure party committees

The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) is looking to stimulate the local economy by importing prisoners from

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband gave a speech to NATO headquarters in Brussels about the Afghanistan war, and it might be the most thorough and explicit

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral argument this morning in a case brought by the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of a woman who was arrested for being too poor to pay child support. In a press release, the ACLU says: The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic are representing Selesa Likine, who lost her job and custody of her three children after being diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

Whoa. Via Juan Cole, here’s something I never expected to read: The Iraqi government is likely to abandon plans to sign short-term contracts with foreign oil

For those who dare not look away from the rapidly evolving soap opera that was formerly known as the McCain-Palin campaign, GQ reporter Robert Draper has

On Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki endorsed -- unprompted and by name -- Barack Obama’s call for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months to the German magazine Der

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats’ hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival

Has the Obama administration changed the legal rules for detaining suspects in the war on terrorism, asked Harvard law professor Noah Feldman in an op-ed in

For almost four years, the fate of U.S. border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had been a sort of cause celebre among immigration restrictionists.

Given that the Obama administration worked last night with House Democrats to soften the language of Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) Iran resolution -- which passed

The Obama administration could have just let this one go. U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates’ April 2 ruling that three detainees -- two from Yemen, one

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Siun at Firedoglake -- where, full disclosure, my personal blog is hosted -- rounds up a series of Iraqi news reports suggesting that shoe-throwing journalist

Gallup is out today with a poll that puts support for a new law that would make it easier for labor unions to organize workers at 53 percent, to only 39