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On Tuesday I reported that an Arizona judge had ordered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop pre-charging female prisoners for the transportation and

In the end, every Democrat* and eight Republicans voted for cloture on Harold Koh’s nomination for legal adviser to the State Department. The Republicans: Lamar

Joe Biden thanks George Bush for his role in ending the Iraq war. A poll shows Rahm Emanuel leading other possible mayoral candidates in Chicago. The star

Immigration courts are experiencing a massive backlog, with a 459-day average waiting time before cases are heard by a federal judge. Nearly 248,000 cases were

President Obama, in an interview with NBC News, about the timing of his Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy decision: I think it is entirely possible that we

Meet the next commander of the beleagured Afghanistan war. The Senate confirmed now-four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal by voice vote this afternoon.

The Washington Post has a great story today that raises questions about the rosy assumptions included in an Obama administration report on oil released into the

The conservative web forum Lucianne.com (named after founder/Clinton scandal bit player Lucianne Goldberg, who launched it a decade ago after a split with

For almost four years, the fate of U.S. border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had been a sort of cause celebre among immigration restrictionists.

While having a mostly-unrelated conversation with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), I asked whether the congressman had watched Rick Santelli on CNBC last week,

Today’s news that Obama administration officials are touring a Michigan prison as a possible alternative location for detainees now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay

Former U.S.

Public Policy Polling, conducting an automated poll on the Massachusetts Senate race, is finding good data for Republican candidate Scott Brown. According to

One concern that may animate the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force deciding that about 50 detainees must be held indefinitely without trial is that

A new tweet from the governor of Alaska reveals her choice of reading material; the new, bestselling book from the legal-minded conservative radio host.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says he thinks Clinton will succeed. But he’s the one making the uncomfortable statements about the Clinton Foundation. It’s a

St. Paul Cathedral.

Starting today, the state of Florida requires a doctor to perform an ultrasound prior to any abortion service, whether it is medically necessary or not.

The Blaze, the conservative news and opinion website founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck, reports on a claim that the Obama administration increased the

Activists grasp for political leverage most Republicans concede is out of reach.

Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak spoke at a forum last month organized by the Center for a New American Security. He wanted sustained American support

A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote. On the dispensary’s website, owner Skekina Pena writes : Protect Your Access! Vote 2011: All dispensaries are doing a voter registration drive

Stop worrying about a massive Treasury sell-off by China. They already did that, and you didn’t even notice.