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Buried on page B-2 of an annex in Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Aug. 30 strategic assessment of the Afghanistan war is a vague promise about how he will run it.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Aww, there’s nothing quite like sitting in a bar alone with a laptop. I’m saving some tables at the Peanut Farm Bar & Grill for a

Part of the mission of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, led by Richard D. Land,

During budget negotiations the week before Friday’s government shutdown, Republican leaders pressed Gov. Mark Dayton to include a ban on abortions at 20 weeks gestation, a ban on taxpayer-funded abortions and a ban on some forms of stem cell research.

The DFL has released a video of this week’s statement by Burnsville Republican Sen. Dan Hall on school integration.

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman tried to quietly contribute an additional $13 million to her California governor’s campaign on Friday afternoon -- but the media,

From the moment President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have been vocal about their intention to repeal the bill, despite the fact that

According to a recent article from National Journal , Planned Parenthood has recently won three court battles against state-level efforts to restrict access to abortion and to defund the chain of women’s clinics. It also looks like the organization is set to win four more legal challenges. # National Journal reports : # In the last week, Planned Parenthood won separate legal victories in three states at the forefront of the battle: Indiana, Kansas, and South Dakota

In a July 14 letter sent to the Florida congressional delegation, a large group of industry and agricultural representatives say that a set of water pollution standards are not the solution for algal blooms and fish kills plaguing many parts of Florida. # The letter is a response to one penned by the Florida Water Coalition, who implored lawmakers to adopt a set of numeric nutrient criteria in an effort to fight Florida’s water pollution, which many say costs Floridians in the long run. In an email dated July 7, the Coalition (which includes Earthjustice attorney David Guest) said that the failure to implement the criteria would be “a clear dereliction of duty,” as excess nutrients impose a threat to public health. # In its response, members from Florida’s top agricultural and industry organizations, as well as Associated Industries of Florida, a top lobbying firm, wrote their own letter

With Connecticut Senate candidates Linda McMahon (R) and Richard Blumenthal (D) set to debate tonight in Hartford, the McMahon campaign is throwing its jabs in

Bloomberg polls the masses, and finds that they do not think much of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill. Some headline numbers: Nearly four in five say

Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner confirmed a well-known fact: The Obama administration and many congressional Democrats are in agreement that the

The Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll, released on Friday, shows that 55 percent of Minnesotans oppose inserting a ban on same-sex marriage in the Minnesota Constitution. Only 39 percent favor such a ban, it found

The state Legislature turned away $2.8 million in annual funding from the federal government for comprehensive sex education in Florida.

In the enviro-sphere, all eyes are on the House of Representatives, which is currently engaged in a heated debate on the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill,

The White House is expected to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

Most Republican candidates who might nab Senate seats tonight don’t look like such good friends of the campaign finance reform community on the surface, but

So Charles Djou, one of the three GOP candidates vying for a blue seat in a special election right now, is not promising to move immediately to repeal health

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to tap Cass Sunstein, a Harvard constitutional scholar and contributor to The Washington Independent, to lead the

The Pentagon just announced that late Friday, the Senate confirmed now-full-Gen. Keith Alexander to be the first commander of the U.S. military’s new effort at

Asked this morning when the Justice Department plans to release the highly-anticipated report by its internal ethics office regarding the conduct and legal

In an address to delegates at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen today, President Obama promised that America would meet