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In case you missed it, TWI’s David Weigel was back on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night, talking about the mainstreaming of the birther movement

Josh Rogin has a great piece about the differences between Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the

After decades of abetment, Congress is watching with more critical eyes.

The lightning round begins: Who is everyone’s favorite Republican president? Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. Reagan. And finally, from Ken Blackwell: Ronald

<p>Via <a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/a-leading-gener.html">Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman</a>, Lt. General William

The Hill reports that a few Republican Senators, including John McCain (Ariz.), Jim DeMint (S.C.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Tom Coburn (Okla.), are planning to

Members of Colorado’s relatively small Muslim community are intently watching the rising tide of unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, according to the head of the Colorado Muslim Society , and are very supportive of changes that lead to greater freedom throughout the Arab world. “We are for human dignity and justice and freedom from oppression for all of mankind,” CMS President Talib Syed told The Colorado Independent. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s here in the United States or in Africa or in Europe or the Middle East

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) told reporters this morning that he will push the state legislature to allow a 2010 special election to replace the late Sen.

When West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) said Friday that he was passing the torch to Carte Goodwin, his former general counsel and appointee to replace the

During a pair of press conferences today, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan offered a rough sketch of the waivers states can use to opt out of

The online legal resource SCOTUSblog, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court, is holding an online symposium on an issue that figures prominently in the fate of Florida health policy: the constitutionality of the federal health reform law.

This afternoon, the Senate voted to end debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill, 60 to 40. Today or tomorrow, the Senate will

I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now. After telling the government last week that it has no

As the fight over union rights continues to rage in Wisconsin, at least four other states have become battlegrounds as well. It has been reported that Iowa,

They’ll let Jason Goldberg keep his money there after the big stink, but your business will remain a whole other story.

Might have seen this one coming. When the Bush administration agreed in December to tap Wall Street bailout funds to help Chrysler and General Motors avoid

The rising tide of violence in Afghanistan identified in the United Nations’ most recent quarterly country report got the lion’s share of the press attention

Various interest groups are touting infrastructure investment as a particularly effective economic stimulus strategy because, they claim, such projects can

The effort within the McCain campaign’s upper ranks to pin Sen. John McCain’s loss of the presidential election on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now in full swing,

After what appears to be the passage of Proposition 8 in California, gay marriage advocates have filed three different lawsuits challenging its