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PITTSBURGH - The conversation with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) heated up a bit as he took questions on what he could do to bring Republicans on board with

While there’s strong support for deporting dangerous criminals, federal programs such as this one are extending far beyond that goal and detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants for such minor infractions as running a stop sign or carrying an open container of alcohol.

Jason Pye passes on a video of Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), a candidate for governor of Georgia, being questioned by minor birther figure Carl Swensson (of

The U.S. Senate failed to file cloture on the National Defense Authorization Act, which included an amendment to repeal Don’t ask, don’t tell, the military’s

If anyone thought that a liberal President Obama, backed by large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, was just going to write his way through

Expect to hear a lot more about this. Republicans, who were utterly crushed in New Mexico’s 2008 elections, picked up the mayoralty and city council of

While recent reports suggest that Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm is on President Obama’s shortlist of potential nominees to replace retiring

I’ve got some more interviews from Nashville and the National Tea Party Convention that didn’t make it into today’s story. Here is Roy Moore, the Ten

As Newsweek reported Friday evening, the CIA inspector general report expected to be released on Monday reveals that the CIA staged mock executions to terrify

Whoa. Via Juan Cole, here’s something I never expected to read: The Iraqi government is likely to abandon plans to sign short-term contracts with foreign oil

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has pulled out of the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner June 10, party officials said Thursday, leading the party to cancel the entire fundraiser for this year. Trump was to be the keynote speaker.

Marco Rubio’s Reclaim America PAC said in a press release Wednesday that a recent speech delivered by the senator at the Ronald Reagan Library “drove extreme liberals crazy, and they are on the attack.” # The release added: # MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow chopped up Marco’s words and distorted them, even weaving in mentions of Marco’s parents to attack him.

UPDATED at 2:33 p.m. As The American Independent previously reported, anti-abortion rights group Americans United for Life (AUL) released Thursday a report of

In light of the rally this afternoon that I wrote about earlier, the American Civil Liberties Union is cautioning that comprehensive immigration reform

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The members of the Republican National Committee have just approved an amended version of their resolution on The Democrats’ March

Following up on Sahil Kapur’s excellent piece on the expansion of gun rights under the Obama administration’s watch, The New York Times has a nice overview

Texas Gov.

You’re not going to believe this, but Scott Carney’s got a post up at Danger Room interviewing Somali pirates on their strategies for hijacking cargo ships,

The Houston Chronicle reported today that BP identified in September of last year dozens of concerns with the Deepwater Horizon rig, the rig that exploded and

Bob Woodward’s new book, entitled Obama’s Wars, will be released next Monday. The book covers the Obama administration’s decision-making process about troop

Duty calls on the home front, and the Governoress simply can’t be bothered with trifles from the press.

A new report by the Michigan League for Human Services finds that long-term unemployment is at the highest rate since such measures began to be tracked in the state of Michigan. More than half of Michigan’s unemployed adults of prime working age (25-54) last year spent a half year or longer looking for jobs – the longest on record, the 2011 Labor Day Report from the Michigan League for Human Services concludes.