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Florida’s influential affiliate of the Family Research Council will be hosting GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at its annual policy awards dinner.

Ah, strategic myopia. Yesterday, Ted Gistaro, a top intelligence analyst, gave a speech to the Washington Institute about Al Qaeda’s intent and capability to

This is sort of sad. Lt. Scott R. Easterling, a former contractor who became a commissioned officer in 2007, has signed up with Orly Taitz’s crackpot quest for

The Justice Department on Thursday again delayed disclosure of three critical legal memos written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the Justice Department’s

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The L.A. Times gives a good review to President-elect Barack Obama for his first news conference, conducted on a day that began with downbeat economic news

Yoo refuses to answer who was in the meeting about the White House meeting referred to by Addington in advance of Yoo/Bybee’s August 1, 2002 torture memo.

By the close of 1967, a half-million U.S. troops were in Vietnam, and Americans at home, viewing the war on television in their living rooms, had become

Matthew Yglesias flags this aspect of a New York Times story about the Obama national-security team: Yet all three of his choices — Senator Hillary Rodham

While Gov. Rick Perry drew criticism for the political overtones to the August prayer rally he hosted just days before he announced his run for the presidency,

Thirty years into the epidemic, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday launched the first ever congressional HIV/AIDS caucus. According to the National Minority AIDS Council , “the Caucus will examine methods by which the United States can maintain global leadership in the response to this 30 year epidemic.” Given the “estimated 56,000 new HIV infections each year,” the Minority AIDS Council said the HIV/AIDS caucus will monitor the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and seek financing for HIV/AIDS programs

Republican 2012 candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) will kick off her bus tour tomorrow in Iowa City, then travel westward through the state for the holiday weekend, her campaign announced Thursday

Between 2005 and 2009, the nation’s 14 leading natural gas drilling service companies used hydraulic fracturing fluids containing 29 different chemicals regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) as potential human carcinogens, according to a new congressional report released Saturday.

The obvious thorn in the side of Republicans -- who’ve made a habit of blasting the deficit spending of the Democratic majority under President Obama -- is that

The fallout from the revelation that Target, Best Buy, and other corporations made independent expenditures on behalf of Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate

Dr. Howard Fuller, a longtime advocate for school choice options in inner cities who recently came out against aggressive voucher expansion in his home state of

A new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that low-income Latino immigrants face increasing hostility as they fill low-wage jobs in

It was only a matter of time before somebody pushed back against assertions by staff for the national oil spill commission today that there is no evidence that

Although there have been plenty of comings and goings over the past two weeks, the one event that had the largest impact on Iowa politicos was an official announcement from Mike Huckabee that he would not be a 2012 contender.

Under pressure from gay rights groups, Atlanta-based international law firm King & Spaulding announced it was pulling out of a deal struck with Republican leaders to defend the Defense of Marriage Act on behalf of the House of Representatives.