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Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them

Suggesting that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leave the room in the debate over end-of-life counseling, conservative Washington Post columnist Charles

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.), who is often mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate for the GOP, spoke yesterday at the Capitol Visitors Center on the

Few innocent victims of post-9/11 counter-terrorism policies have been able to sustain their claims against government officials in federal courts, although

Here’s a fun accounting term to remember: accretable yield. That’s the difference between a loan’s value on a bank’s balance sheet and the expected cash flow

Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, testified that imprisoning some Guantanamo detainees in the United States would make it politically

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday that she would not move her state’s presidential primary into January, which would likely force Iowa and New Hampshire to also jump ahead

I saw in my RSS reader that four U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours. Hmm, I thought, I get emails from the International Security

The terrorist Hambali, a former occupant of a CIA black-site cell, might be tried in Washington, D.C., which doesn’t know a thing about security. An intense

One of the early lights of the national security/foreign policy blogosphere, Marc Lynch, is the latest scholar to sign up with the Center for a New American

“This ‘legally obligated’ stuff is a lot of nonsense,” says one expert on the Wall Street bailout.

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It happens all the time. A thirsty consumer grabs a cup of coffee with a debit card, unknowingly exceeds the available balance, and gets smacked with a $30 fee for the $3 purchase.

No date has been set, but congressional leaders are already vowing to hold hearings on the circumstances leading up to Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine

Cutting interest rates and bailing out banks won’t pull us out of the full-fledged credit collapse we’re facing. It’s time to spend.

In Iowa, the state Republican Party is calling for the “reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution -- a

Here’s the Tea Party video of the week, so far: Singer/songwriter Lloyd Marcus (of American Tea Party Anthem fame) re-writes the lyrics of My Girl to pay

Here’s one interesting revelation from today’s House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the Michigan pipeline spill: the agency in charge of

At 4 p.m.

Because it’s 5 p.m. on a July Friday, the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.), have announced that

Earlier today, I participated in a call on financial regulatory reform with Heather Booth, the executive director of Americans for Financial Reform, Damon

This morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) raised the prospect that the Senate might hold another vote on extending federal unemployment insurance benefits before