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At the risk of sounding obsessive, look at how the National Security Strategy entrenches indefinite detention without charge. The increased risk of terrorism

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- During today’s rally at the University of Maryland, President Obama tailored his health care message to appeal to a younger crowd that has

Fake Rep. Jack Kimble tricks the Washington Post. Rick Santorum has a Google problem. Republicans are now likely to take the House. Robert Byrd’s

Today, the Senate approved a state aid bill providing $26.1 billion in funding for cash-strapped local governments to use for Medicaid and teachers’ jobs. The

Republican lawmakers, at least in Colorado, are fond of pointing to America’s vast domestic fossil fuel reserves as a largely untapped means of ending the nation’s dependency on overseas energy imports.

Breaking news from The Washington Post: The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about

A recent survey from Public Policy Polling shows Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia) has very little support in his long-shot run for president, even in his home

President Obama’s 2012 campaign has a new senior adviser — a former lobbyist for the company pushing the Keystone XL pipeline, who also lobbied for Comcast throughout the period that the media conglomerate was seeking approval for its merger with NBC-Universal. The campaign hired Broderick Johnson of the lobbying firm Bryan Cave LLP this week. According to U.S.

While the oil has stopped flowing from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s important to note that the cap is a temporary fix. Relief wells are still

The Florida Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on one of Rick Scott’s first and most substantial acts as governor, which drew a legal challenge earlier this year. # Rosalie Whiley, a blind woman seeking to reapply for food stamps, challenged Scott’s authority to suspend rulemaking by executive agencies, an effort intended to reign in out-of-control regulations, but that also ensared agencies’ efforts to do things like create a streamlined application for food stamps. (That specific rulemaking effort, Scott’s lawyers were quick to point out, has since been approved, and is again moving through the process.) # Scott froze rulemaking the day he took office, in his first executive order (.pdf), which also created the Office of Fiscal Accountability and Regulatory Reform (aka OFARR)

Mullen says the military should not be deployed without a complementary civilian effort.

The total number of claims to date is 31,225. Of those claims, only 1,935 -- just over 6 percent -- have been paid.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed Tuesday that the Senate this year will consider controversial legislation allowing Americans to buy their

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I missed this post by Lew Rockwell, the chairman of the Mises Institute and one of the most quietly influential libertarian writers in America, when it ran last

The Washington Post reported in March that EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson was overruled by the White House in setting an ozone standard. Now, documents

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, a longtime supporter of strict immigration enforcement, has made pushing for Arizona-style immigration legislation a central part

There was a minor hue and cry on the conservative blogs about 10 days ago, when the Pollster.com average showed President Obama’s approval rating dropping into

Thirty Minnesota and Wisconsin state legislators signed a letter urging their congressional delegations to vote against construction of a nearly $700 million bridge across the St. Croix River near Stillwater. The legislators, many of whom are from the states’ larger cities, said the bridge was simply too expensive.

Remember that famous Groucho Marx line (quoted by Woody Allen in Annie Hall) about how he’d never join the kind of club that would have him as a member? That

The debt ceiling agreement approved early this week by Congress, rejected by an array of U.S.

One day after the Department of Homeland Security announced record-high deportations of illegal immigrants, ColorLines has a good story about some of the