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Fellow TPM alum, Kate Klonick has joined us to blog the remaking of the Department of Justice, including Eric Holder’s Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

It’s got to be Barack’s in the basement from The Washington Times, which argues that at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the

The presidential campaigns of U.S. Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul have announced additional support in the Hawkeye State

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District yesterday voted unanimously to move forward with eight public/private partnership projects to store water in the Northern Everglades. The projects, which are known as dispersed water management, involve enlisting private landowners in solutions to help restore the Everglades and its tributaries. The district describes (.pdf) it simply as “shallow water distributed across parcel landscapes using relatively simple structures.” Several state conservation groups have been vocal advocates of the projects, which they say could provide benefits to both water storage and water quality

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen of Minnesota is listed as a member of a controversial corporate and state legislative collaboration called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to recently leaked documents .

In the RNC’s latest fundraising appeal, a website called nomorefrankens.com, the group makes a number of claims about the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race

Republicans in Ohio, as in several other states, have placed a constitutional amendment before voters that, if passed this November, would block provisions in

I’ve been doing my best today to ignore the McCain campaign’s current non-issue du jour -- the release of a video showing Sen. Barack Obama’s attendance at a

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) seemed pretty animated on Monday afternoon when he spoke to a bunch of us reporters after receiving an intelligence briefing on would-be

Charitable giving is a time-honored strategy for turning money into influence. If you don’t want to give money to a politician’s PAC, try making a contribution

McCain’s presidential crusade perseveres even as Act of God isolates his pick for vice president.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell just put out the following statement about Bush’s updated executive order governing the intelligence

I have already seen a few emails and advisories going around, blaring that Democrats are planning massive tax hikes for Jan. 1! The Chamber of Commerce, for

<p>I used to wake up every morning and worry about Jim Traficant.</p> <p>Traficant was the congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, and

In a move being cheered by environmentalists and community groups, Congress on Tuesday sent the White House a spending bill for the Department of Homeland

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) The Stem Cell Action Coalition is calling on Mississippi voters to reject Amendment 26, also known as the “personhood” amendment, at the ballot box on Nov. 8.

UPDATED Oct. 8, with reaction from Planned Parenthood Controversial Texas pastor Robert Jeffress introduced presidential candidate Rick Perry to the stage at

Iowa politicians offer a wide array of opinions on the role of faith in politics, with some saying they can’t be separated and others saying there must be a clear delineation between the two.

Is that your opening negotiation position, Mullah Omar? From the BBC: Taleban leader Mullah Omar has denied there are any talks under way to end the