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Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party’s

The British government has initiated a criminal inquiry of the potential responsibility of CIA and British intelligence officials for detainee interrogation

Following up on Dave’s post, Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), the Republican point-man on Senate health reform legislation this year, says he’s still interested in

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, is aiming to bring it home today. In Canton, Ohio, he will deliver what aides call the campaign’s seminal closing

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist continues to walk an increasingly fine line in his Senate bid as an independent, making a few statements this weekend on CNN’s State

This was predictable. House Democrats yesterday announced that they’ve watered down their climate change bill to satisfy the same polluters considered most

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Feb. 4, 2009. The Wall Street Journal attempts to

Maybe it’s time to renew my pledge to write more often about climate science and how it shapes the political debate. Reuters reports on a new study that

I’ve tried to avoid commenting on the rampant speculation about President-elect Barack Obama’s consideration of his primary rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,

Liberals have bashed Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) in recent days for blocking legislation to extend the filing deadline for unemployment benefits, the cost of

Rachel Maddow had a segment on her show last evening looking at the controversy over the Emergency Manager in Benton Harbor nullifying election results and forbidding elected bodies in that city from taking any actions whatsoever. She specifically cited the Michigan Messenger. Maddow specifically mentioned the Jean Klock Park situation, a story that the Messenger has been following closely for years — and most of the media in the state have been ignoring.

Vice President Biden will probably have the last laugh now that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is returning to Washington to learn his fate as commanding general in

One of the more curious aspects of the months-long debate over health care reform has been the inattention that the media has given the Children’s Health

House Speaker Kurt Zellers said that voting is not a right, but a privilege Wednesday evening, the Star Tribune reports . Zellers is not the first conservative to make that claim during the debate over voter ID which is heating up the Minnesota Legislature. Republicans and voter ID advocates have compared showing identification for voting to everything from cashing a check to boarding a plane to buying cigarettes.

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Ken Buck, Colorado’s GOP senate candidate and Tea Party favorite, is taking the high road -- sort of. The Denver Post’s blog reported yesterday that Buck has

Over at Firedoglake, my friend and co-blogger Siun rounds up all the recent indications that the U.S. military command in Iraq is figuring out how to get around