A federal judge permanently threw out a key part of the National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday as part of a lawsuit brought by journalist Chris Hedges and others who claimed that they could be held in indefinite military detention because they interviewed suspected terrorists.

The Pennslyvania Supreme Court gave a cold reception to the defenders of that presidential swing state's new GOP-passed voter ID law on Thursday, according to early press accounts, suggesting the new law might be struck down or suspended for the 2012 election.

This week a lot of Democrats and "liberals" are attacking Chicago teachers for what they tell us are their extravagant and "unreasonable" demands. It's funny: If they think teaching's such a gravy train, why have they all become bankers instead?

Ohio Governor John Kasich has long been known to be a giant flaming misogynist, but that doesn't make it any less depressing that he said at a Romney campaign event that his and the other speaker's wives couldn't be there because "they're at home doing the laundry” and “taking care of the kids."

Seriously, what year is this?

cross-posted from Right Wing Watch

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It’s pop-quiz time when it comes to the American way of war: three questions, torn from the latest news, just for you.  Here’s the first of them, and good luck!

Two weeks ago, 200 U.S. Marines began armed operations in…?:

Negotiators on both sides of the Chicago teachers strike are now saying a deal may be near:

"We would like to get this done. I think everybody would like to get this done," a smiling Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said late on Wednesday.

She and Chicago School Board President David Vitale said they had made considerable progress toward a compromise.

With protests mounting in the Middle East in response to the anti-Muslim film released by "Sam Bacile," there's obviously been much focus on trying to figure out who this Bacile character is, if he even exists. (As at least a few people have pointed out, M.

Protests are spreading in the Middle East over a movie made by a U.S. filmmaker considered blasphemous to Islam. Earlier today, hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sana’a, smashing windows and burning cars before breaking through the compound’s main gate. Protests have also occurred in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Tunisia and Bangladesh, as well as the occupied Gaza Strip. We get updates from journalists Iona Craig in Sana’a and Sharif Abdel Kouddous in Cairo.