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Not to be competitive about it or anything, but following up on Matt’s post, the case of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan picked up at age 16 or 17 and tortured

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

For those who’ve been wondering whether Congress can really just vent its anger at those $165 million in AIG bonuses by levying a 90 percent tax on the bonuses

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

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty announced on Wednesday that he would not sign a controversial marriage pledge by Iowa’s The Family Leader. Pawlenty said, “I prefer to choose my own words,” in response to the pledge which has come under fire for references to slavery , its opposition to same-sex marriage, a ban on pornography and an insinuation that being gay or lesbian is a choice . Fellow presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have signed on while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have criticized the pledge.

Shirley Sherrod doesn’t want an Agriculture Department job. Blago attempts to show Jon Stewart he’s not a sociopath. Mitt Romney’s advisers hope he’ll be

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

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

State Department officials have been assuring reporters for the last week that by January, more than 1,000 diplomats, development workers and other U.S.

Eric Cantor says he’d support Boehner for House speaker. Obama writes a children’s book. Rahm Emanuel starts polling about a potential Chicago major

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)

I mentioned in April that CIA luminary Phil Mudd was going to become undersecretary of Homeland Security for intelligence, but Jeff Stein scoops the world and

Rep. Bart Gordon becomes the fourth Democratic member of Congress in a month -- the second Blue Dog from Tennessee -- to announce his retirement in 2010. Like

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

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

Given that the Obama administration worked last night with House Democrats to soften the language of Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) Iran resolution -- which passed

If President Obama is drafting an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, and he has already filed a motion to halt military commission trials, does that make

Source: Zroberts, Flickr Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition working to convince Minnesotans to vote for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, has hit the media saying that their group are “underdogs” in the marriage amendment battle and that they will be greatly outspent. But according to public records, members of the pro-amendment coalition, including the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference, have greatly outspent LGBT groups in the five years of lobbying for the amendment. Minnesota for Marriage claims fundraising disadvantage Each member of the coalition supporting the amendment has claimed underdog status in recent months.

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

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based organization responsible for much of the non-partisan data analysis on immigration

Wendy Norris of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent, caught up with former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee

A happy tax day to all readers. Yesterday, I took a look at the conservative talking point that only 47 percent of Americans pay income taxes. Today, Keith

It continues with an op-ed in The Washington Post on Why I commuted Maurice Clemmons’s sentence. On this issue, the problem conservatives have with Huckabee,

Via Politico’s Jonathan Martin Sen. John McCain has not taken questions from his traveling press corps since Aug. 13 in Michigan, and the reporters on his