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The event that’s bringing Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) to the White House tomorrow might be the announcement of new CAFE standards. It’s a marquee event,

Adam Kokesh, a libertarian Marine Corps veteran who became a fairly prominent anti-Iraq War activist, is running for Congress as an independent in New Mexico’s

The author of The Persecution of Sarah Palin gets a friendly profile in Doublethink, the in-house magazine of the libertarian America’s Future Foundation.

GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her Christian husband are undergoing increased scrutiny after a weekend report by national gay rights advocacy group Truth Wins Out (TWO). The TWO report disclosed that the organization had sent employee John Becker into a counseling clinic owned by the Bachmanns.

As health care, Iran and banking reform grab the headlines and lawmakers’ attention, advocates for immigration reform are turning to prayer vigils and lawsuits

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that unemployment declined month-on-month in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Year-on-year, unemployment

Two experts say time is right for Washington to pursue normal relations with Iran and recognize its legitimate regional and international role. Other leading scholars back this call for detente.

Today, RealtyTrac reported foreclosure and home-sale information for September and the third quarter of the year, showing an extraordinarily weak housing

Merrill Lynch -- the former Wall Street titan that was recently acquired by Bank of America -- like most investment banks, typically pays about 50 percent of

At noon in the Pentagon briefing room, flanked by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Adm. Mike Mullen, Defense Secretary

I just talked with Club for Growth Executive Director David Keating about his group’s activity in the NY-23 special election. The Club, like many other

This week’s award for bad faith spin goes to an anonymous (of course) GOP Senate aide to complain to Jake Tapper that the media is not angry enough at Sen.

The ballroom was packed for Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) CPAC speech -- the doors were shut for a good 30 minutes before the speech began. And to the strains of

I haven’t blogged much on the yo mama contest between the Democratic National Committee and the National Republican Campaign Committee, but it’s been

When most people shell out for cable service, they expect to get some basic channels -- especially since, in most areas, cable companies operate with little or

Daphne Eviatar calls Eric Holder a safe choice for attorney general, and Matt DeLong writes that few would consider him unqualified. Well, let me play

Californians seem to be growing more accepting of immigrants, according to a Los Angeles Times/USC poll released this weekend. Among likely voters, 59 percent

And here you thought Bank of America and Merrill Lynch were the bad guys.

With her 20 minute “Story of Stuff” web-video, Annie Leonard explained some of the downside of consumerism to a lot of Americans. Now with her “Story of Citizens United” video, she explains why she and many others believe the corporate personhood extended by the 2010 Citizens United vs FEC Supreme Court decision threatens the U.S. democratic system of government.

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