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Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale (Pic by Debra Todd, via Facebook) Planned Parenthood’s new “Women are Watching” campaign features Allen West on its list of “chumps,” a designation reserved for congressmen and congresswomen with the lowest scores on women’s health policies.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says that the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden can open the door for climate change legislation in Congress

Hot off the presses from the McCain campaign, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) sent out a mass email to McCain supporters announcing a new group, "Citizens for

Banking on an injunction filed Wednesday against the city, Occupy Dallas protesters are hunkering down as lawyers argue for their right to demonstrate in a city

Four leaders of congressional agriculture committees sent a letter to congressional “super committee” members proposing $23 billion in agricultural cuts Monday. The cuts would come in the Farm Bill, which expires next year. The committee members hope the voluntary reductions, which they propose to put together in detail by Nov.

The old Florida capitol (Pic by Diligent Terrier, via Wikimedia Commons) On Thursday, legislators learned that Florida could face a $2.25 billion shortfall in 2012, leading Gov. Rick Scott and other legislative leaders to direct state agencies to identify ways to shave 10 percent off their budgets for fiscal year 2012-13. For the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, those cuts could mean eliminating law enforcement positions and reducing the amount of invasive species control

A scratched back is scratching back. One of the first candidates endorsed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) in 2008 has been named the chair of Paul’s

Depending on who you ask, the sentencing yesterday of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri to eight years in prison is either evidence that the civilian federal judicial

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are set to answer

“My claim status says my claim is being reviewed, yet no one can tell me when or what stage it is in. If there are 45,000 claims in this stage am I number 15 or 41,000 in the line? one claimant wrote to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility.

When it was launched in March, the Foreign Policy Initiative ’s mission was always to back robust, whatever-it-takes operations in Afghanistan. I see that FPI’s

President Obama’s 2012 campaign has a new senior adviser — and he is a former lobbyist for the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the environmental group Friends of the Earth . The campaign hired Broderick Johnson of the lobbying firm Bryan Cave LLP, which lobbied on behalf of TransCanada, the owners of the proposed pipeline.

Don’t miss Wired’s amazing story about an Iraq-stationed Army specialist, Bradley Manning, who was arrested two weeks ago for leaking Wikileaks a gruesome video

Several states — but not New Mexico — have received warnings from the Department of Justice over their medical marijuana programs, leading them to reassess their programs, according to the Associated Press . The “ominous-sounding letters” have gone to the states in recent weeks. The letters — sent to Colorado and Washington , among other states — are perhaps a signal that the federal government is further abandoning its stated hands-off approach to medical marijuana in the states.

Former New Mexico Republican Gov.

Ben Smith calls Judge James Robertson’s memo dismissing Hollister v. Soetoro a birther smackdown, and he’s right. The suit, which — as the more racist

Less than two weeks after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) became the first Senate Democrat to announce her opposition to the labor-friendly Employee Free Choice

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he plans to use an executive order to ease student loan debt for millions of Americans.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as