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Feds to Sue Arizona Over Immigration Law – UPDATE

As the Obama Administration continues to push Congress on comprehensive immigration reform, the Department of Justice is expected to file a lawsuit today against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. The border state’s new law, scheduled to go into effect later this month, allows local law enforcement to question a person’s …

Hillaryland

For your political trivia file:

I was struck by this passage in today’s NYT story about the Secretary of State:

While their underlings at times grouse about one another — some Clinton supporters call White House officials “The Cardinals” (to suggest that they are too controlling), and some Obama staff members refer to the

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Karzai’s Brother

Islamabad

Just emerged from a press conference featuring Hillary Clinton and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Qureishi. The big news here today involves terrorist attacks in Peshawar, to our northwest, and Kabul. There are 86 dead, so far, in the bombing of a women’s market in Peshawar; seven dead UN workers in Kabul.

There’s been a lot …

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Russian Autumn

There is probably less than meets the eye in substantive terms to the recent Russian intransigence on a sanctions regime for Iran. Vladimir Putin merely said that talk of additional sanctions was “premature”–and if the New York Times report cited in my post below can be credited, Putin is right.

But there’s something else going on …

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Getting Defensive at NSC, State

Bob Woodward is body armor in official Washington. He’s protection against the verdict of history, since his insider books are usually the first attempt to explain the inner workings of any given Administration. You want to be on his good side; just ask Colin Powell. So when former General Jim Jones invited Woodward along on a trip to the …

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