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Bloomberg News is reporting tonight that the same contractor that vetted NSA leaker Edward Snowden also did the background check on Aaron Alexis. The U.S. government contractor that vetted Edward Snowden, who leaked information about national surveillance programs, said it also performed a background check on...

Maybe he should ask Raymond J. Donovan. Until then, all he has is publicity about the overturning of his politically-driven conviction, Tom DeLay money laundering verdict overturned: A Texas Court of Appeals in Austin has overturned the conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, attorney...

The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies – including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement -- have armed divisions. ....The incident that sparked the renewed interest and concern occurred in late August when a team of armed federal and state officials descended on the tiny Alaska gold mining town of Chicken, Alaska.

The raid, according to one Senate staffer close to the matter, was conducted as such because of information received from the Alaska State Troopers about rampant “drug and human trafficking” in the area, the Alaska Dispatch reports. That purported explanation was seemingly debunked by a spokeswoman for the law enforcement agency who told the newspaper that it did not advise EPA officials to conduct the raid, adding that no evidence exists to believe those crimes are occurring. Calls seeking additional comment from the Alaska State Troopers were not returned early Friday. “Their explanation — that there are concerns with the area of rampant drug trafficking and human trafficking going on — sounds wholly concocted to me,” Murkowski told the newspaper. “This seems to have been a heavy-handed and heavy-armor approach. Why was it so confrontational? The EPA really didn’t have any good answers for this.”

Maureen Dowd has become disillusioned with President Obama in his second term. It's probably correct to conclude that Dowd stands for millions of other liberals similarly let down. But don't get too excited---it's highly probable that neither Dowd nor the rest are considering a leap to...

Facebook apologized Tuesday after a dating advertisement that featured the photo of a teen who committed suicide was published on its site. The case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17 year old from Canada, was widely reported in the news in recent months after she took her...

My USNA '81 classmate Marty Bodrog was killed yesterday by the douchebag at the Navy Yard. Here's the thing. The very first week of training at the Naval Academy in July 1977 during "plebe summer" we woke up at about 0600 and the second thing we did (after PT) was to go across the Severn River on boats to the Annapolis Naval Station to the shooting range, where we were all (1000 or so of us) trained by enlisted (many Vietnam veteran) Marines in how to shoot a Navy 45 caliber pistol. By the end of the week I shot expert and was awarded the Navy Expert Pistol Medal. Not everyone did that, but we were all exceptionally well trained. I have no doubt that if Marty was armed he would be alive and that douchebag would be dead. It is such a tragedy. Just thought I'd share, since no one will ever bring up anything like this.