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  • More secret prisons?

    The Associated Press reports that detainees suspected of involvement in terrorism are now being moved to Ethiopia, a country notorious for human rights abuses.
  • Another conservative has a change of heart

    Former Clinton inquisitor Bob Barr explains why he left the Republican Party and why he shouldn't have voted for the Patriot Act.
  • The real Fox News Democrats

    How the "Fair and Balanced" network pits Democrats against their own party.
  • Coburn: U.S. attorneys scandal sort of like Anna Nicole Smith

    At a hearing yesterday, Sen. Tom Coburn said the U.S. attorneys flap has been overblown -- and compared it to the media coverage of Anna Nicole Smith.
  • How U.S. attorneys were used to spread voter-fraud fears

    Long before it fired eight U.S. attorneys for political reasons, the Bush administration had politicized their jobs by making them push a favorite GOP talking point.
  • Finally, nonsectarian politics in Iraq?

    Amid renewed sectarian violence, the New York Times reports that a unity bloc is poised to shake up the Iraqi Parliament.
  • Fox News' John Gibson exposes Joe Wilson

    Final proof of the anti-Bush cabal inside the CIA? Well, maybe not so much.
  • Suit demands release of secret FISA orders

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking to force the Justice Department to release orders pertaining to secret electronic surveillance.
  • Quote of the day

    The National Review's Andrew Stuttaford gets frustrated with the administration's policy on Afghanistan.
  • A black president, sure -- but a smoker, not so fast

    A new poll reveals Americans' presidential preferences, and some may be surprised by the results.
  • "Slick Dancing Mitt"

    The leak of another Republican presidential candidate's strategic documents gives insight into the potential weaknesses of Mitt Romney.
  • Cheney escapes bomb attack

    The resurgent Taliban attempt a strike against the vice president as he visits Afghanistan.
  • What Hillary Clinton should have known

    The presidential candidate claims that if she knew then what she knows now, she wouldn't have voted for war. But others knew.
  • Sen. Bill Clinton? Really?

    A new Fox News talking point doesn't seem to hold water.
  • Spinning war deaths

    Alicia Colon plays a numbers game with military war deaths; Salon checks in with her about it.
  • The "Iraq effect"

    A new study by Mother Jones shows an increase in terror worldwide.
  • Quote of the day

    Talk radio host Michael Medved on former NBA star Tim Hardaway's homophobic remarks.
  • The Sadr City question

    U.S. and Iraqi forces come under political pressure to clear out the Baghdad stronghold of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr. But at what price will that happen?
  • Blair to announce U.K.'s Iraq withdrawal timetable

    The BBC reports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to announce tomorrow plans for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq.
  • Sen. Johnson is discharged

    After a two-month stay at George Washington University Hospital, the South Dakota Democrat heads to a rehabilitation facility.
  • On the difference between "before" and "after"

    The National Review's Cliff May makes a leap of logic.
  • Court rules against Guantánamo detainees

    A federal appeals court ruled today that imprisoned terror suspects do not have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
  • John McCain rethinks Roe

    The "maverick" senator and presidential candidate makes another course shift as he courts conservatives.
  • A new wave of violence in Iraq

    After a brief period of calm, a series of deadly attacks hit Iraq.
  • Democrats fail to force Senate vote on Iraq

    A day after the House passed a resolution opposing President Bush's plan for military escalation in Iraq, Republicans blocked a similar vote in the Senate.
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