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Gordon Duguid’s daily press conferences at the State Department: Not really on the level of the 2002-vintage Rumsfeld Show of obscurantism and bluster and

This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

September’s job numbers indicate the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent, and that nearly half (44 percent) of the 14 million looking for work

Once a central element to the administration’s plan to help underwater homeowners, cramdown is no longer part of the debate.

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke’s in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, right on time to survey the outcome of last week’s trilateral

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist tells me that Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch is not a total disaster because the most important issue

More information is emerging about the people involved in organizing this weekend’s prayer rally at Ford Field amid accusations that the event is targeting local Muslims. People for the American Way reports that Lou Engle, the man behind the rally, worked with Transformation Michigan to put the event together. Transformation Michigan is a conservative Christian group with a history of presenting the views of anti-Muslim extremists, including Rick Joyner, who is also involved with The Call Detroit rally, and Jerry Boykin

To build off Daphne’s post about defining the battlefield on which detentions occur, Hofstra law professor Eric M. Freedman writes in to make a point about the

Gov. Rick Snyder is seeking to preempt legal challenges to his recently adopted tax plan by asking the Michigan Supreme Court to issue an opinion on the legality of taxing public pensions.

Kate has a great piece today about some of the nation’s polluters embracing once-dreaded regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency in order to fend

I’ve been asking why the Senate Judiciary subcommittee holding the first congressional hearings on the torture memos this morning aren’t calling the Office of

It’s hard to see how this helps Rick Perry in a brutal Republican primary contest, but former President Bill Clinton on Monday defended Perry’s position on immigration and his support of the Texas Dream Act. From CNN:

The Obama administration released a notice today specifying the terms of a new requirement that the operator of any new deepwater drilling project sign a

As The American Independent has reported, Texas’ six-year-old Alternatives to Abortion program has consistently received increases in state funding, while

I haven’t written anything about Chas Freeman, the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia whom Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair tapped to head the

Justin Elliot has the video and story behind LivePrayer.com’s infomercial Where Was President Obama Born? Besides being a forum for prayer requests,

In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today, a coalition of renewable energy industry groups, environmentalists and labor unions called

Although the Obama administration’s much-anticipated new policy on the use of the so-called state secrets privilege, announced this morning, has drawn some praise, civil liberties lawyers and other critics of the use of the privilege don’t think it solves the problem.