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Brilliant legal minds have been debating the arcane details of proposed amendments to the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act for the last 48 hours or so, but I'm afraid the general public may be far less aware of the chicanery going in Congress right now than many of us legal and policy wonks...
(For those joining our story already in progress, here's the Twitter-length summary: I've worked for the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer for some 24 years. I spent a year in Iraq, wrote a book critical of the State Department's waste and mismanagement in Iraq, blogged about it and now...
Former Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) has no regrets about character attacks on his Senate primary opponent, Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), including charges that Mack exploited the name recognition of his father, former U.S. Sen. Connie Mack III. “He’s trying to run a campaign where people will mistake...
WASHINGTON -- Even as they press cuts to foreign aid, food stamps and a host of domestic programs, Republicans running the House of Representatives are opting against any further cuts to their own office budgets. In draft legislation supported by Republicans and Democrats alike, the House...
