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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- MSNBC reports that Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration has said it would cost $45 million to get copies of emails messages sent between her

The New York Times reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100

With the numerous appearances by McCain campaign staff and advisers today on the cable news channels -- and McCain himself scheduled to appear on all three

As Florida Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire businessman Jeff Greene slugged it out in their only statewide televised debate last

The No. 1 Story last night on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann was Late Night host David Letterman’s lambasting of Sen. John McCain, after the GOP

Speaking at a major annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated he would be willing to support further

Robert Paul, son of Ron and brother of Rand, has joined at least seven other people who have said they intend to run for the U.S. Senate seat that will open up

Over at the Middle East Report, Jason Brownlee critiques the Army’s new stability operations field manual as a bloodthirsty imperialist document. Over at Abu

<p>There isn’t much that’s &quot;average&quot; about the voters who showed up at this week’s <a title="Take Back America"

The New York Review of Books has published the complete 43-page report by the International Committee of the Red Cross detailing the gruesome torture and abuse

If the 5,000 plus demonstrators that marched to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation (MBA) annual meeting in Chicago on Monday are any indication, the city has had

Perhaps to make the point that it can be done without risking U.S. lives, the Obama administration announced it will transfer Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a

The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that housing starts climbed more than expected in March. Builders applied for

Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) announced his retirement today, mixed--but mostly dire--news for Democrats, who were hopeful that he could hold on and defeat his

The parties involved in the lawsuit to block one of Florida’s “Fair Districts” amendments from taking effect gather in a Miami courtroom at 10 a.m. tomorrow to present their arguments.

Add birth control to the growing list of taboos in the Florida House of Representatives. House leaders threw out a proposal yesterday that would make April 12 “Birth Control Matters Day,” because House Rules Committee chair Gary Aubuchon, R-Cape Coral, thought the resolution was “controversial.” # This newest installment of women’s-topics-that-make-Florida-legislators-uncomfortable comes on the heels of a dust-up over the word “uterus” last week . # According to the Orlando Sentinel , Aubuchon rejected the proposal by Rep

This Research 2000/Daily Kos poll sheds light on one of the strange phenomena of the health care debate; conservatives worrying that the government will get

As something of an addendum to the previous Iran post: Al Jazeera is hanging out with Mir Hossein Moussavi (I’m still hunting for the right style on spelling

<p>I agree with those who saw a bit of a valedictory air in Hillary Clinton’s final comments in Thursday night’s debate. But I’m