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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a final research plan for its ongoing and congressionally mandated study of the controversial but common oil and gas drilling procedure known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” A holding pond for fracking fluids in Texas

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That seems to be the course of action that Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has just taken in his

Over at the Sunlight Foundation, co-founder Ellen Miller provides more reasons to fret about the departure of White House ethics czar Norman Eisen, whose

About that Marc Ambinder post previewing tomorrow’s Af-Pak rollout that I mentioned. Marc writes this, about a scaled-back focus: The new bearing reflects Vice

Real quick before the military commissions hearings begin: Laura Rozen has a detailed post about why Vice President Joe Biden’s we will not prevent line about

A statement released by Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: “Due to the high visibility of

SBA List spokeswoman Marilyn Musgrave talks to reporters in front of a bus publicizing Democrats’ support of the comprehensive health care reform bill. (Courtesy of SBA List)

The Project on Government Oversight, which blew the story of State Department contractor-gone-wild ArmorGroup wide open last week, put out this statement about

Haaretz reports on comments the undersecretary of defense for policy, Michele Flournoy, made in Singapore about Iran: The U.S. has ruled out a military strike

Here’s another reason to doubt the blizzard of polls that dominate political talk. Pew, the respected non-partisan research organization, reports that polls

Adam Kokesh is one of the more intriguing Republican congressional candidates of the 2010 cycle. A 27-year-old libertarian who became a leader of Iraq Veterans

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly came out of the box yesterday with a strong statement. The State Department takes the allegations of impropriety on the

Just 41 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of health care. But that number might go up with a better information campaign. A GOP Rep in Iowa

The Koch Industries logo (Pic via suraen.files.wordpress.com) In an op-ed published in today’s Florida Times-Union , St. Johns Riverkeeper Neil Armingeon writes that Floridians “deserve answers” about a nearly four-mile pipeline that would carry waste from a Palatka paper mill owned by Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific into the St.

Kudos to Stars and Stripes. Its dogged reporting has now ended a contract that the Rendon Group, a CIA-tied communications firm, had with the Pentagon to

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell assured reporters yesterday, I see nothing to indicate that that date -- that is, the date to close the Guantanamo Bay

On this last day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama is urging voters to relive some humiliating history. Speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Obama will remind

On March 17, Connie Hair of Human Events shared an unsourced rumor with her readers: Most interesting rumor from the Hill yesterday: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)

If Donald Trump and his nascent presidential campaign didn’t have enough to worry about , what with a certain birth certificate being produced and a certain terrorist being brought low, now he has Colorado’s own Tom Tancredo to tangle with. Not only is Trump soft on immigration, but he’s a flip-flopping fool to boot, to hear Tancredo tell it: But even Barack Obama says he favors border security, and Trump has not given any details like whether he supports a border fence

While we’re all duly praising Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for calling a hearing next Wednesday on the torture memos, I’m still puzzled by one thing: why

Peter Schiff, the libertarian economist and investor who’s launched a dark-horse bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.),

The New York Times’ front-page story Sunday reporting the unanimous agreement among Justice Department lawyers that the “harsh” interrogation techniques