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Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa) this morning told a town hall audience he will not support a bill that gives health coverage to illegal immigrants. Will the

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has been a champion in the post-9/11 era of the need to balance tough national security measures against concerns for civil liberties and privacy protections

<p>Attention Republican candidates: sanctuary cities are popping up right on the borders of the nation’s capital!</p> <p> Former

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Via Zachary Roth at TPMmuckraker, The Huffington Post reports that retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, called for

My pal Marc Lynch helped advise the Obama campaign on foreign policy as part of the oft-mocked Gang of 300. (The campaign had a lot of advisers. Get it?) Alas,

At least 200 people — men and women, young and old, white, black, Latino, married couples and singles — met in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Saturday evening in the first Occupy Fort Lauderdale general assembly , to voice their ideas and hopes as well as frustration and anger with corporate greed and the two-party system. Occupy Fort Lauderdale followed a very simple format: In order to have people meet and socialize, they were asked to come up front and tell their story. One meeting coordinator said, “You have grievances with the system right now; we want to hear from as many people as possible so we can make a decision on how to move forward.” Then he read the “Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.” “The big thing that we can focus on are issues of economic class,” Evan Rowe, another meeting coordinator, said

The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Rosenberg (with aid from Yochi Dreazen) has a piece that I can’t recommend strongly enough: a profile of Gul Agha Shirzai, the

In some corners, the anger over the AIG bonuses has turned into mindless populism that serves no purpose. That’s the viewpoint of The Washington Post, which

Public protections against fraud hang in the balance over the upcoming SEC budget battle.

Ben Smith has the not-so-shocking news that FreedomWorks, the chief organizer of a large September 12 anti-tax, anti-spending march on Washington, has been

Marco Rubio, the conservative underdog in the 2010 GOP primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, tells CNN that Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) made a disappointing

An increase of U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan seemed like a certainty during a Pentagon press conference held Thursday afternoon by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, though both men insisted no decision had yet been made.

Starting next fall, illegal immigrants will be banned from certain state colleges and universities in Georgia after a vote today by the state board of regents.

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UPDATE: The survey is here. Kathie Durbin reports on the 2009 Future of American Health Survey sent out by the Republican National Committee. It’s this

So reports Mike Allen. I’m not really sure how many minds this will actually change. Will’s never been much of a hawk, though he does represent something of a

Switzerland sent officials last month to visit the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay to collect information about four detainees it’s considering accepting for

Yesterday, I noted that former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) had endorsed Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party’s candidate for an upstate New York congressional