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The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) is looking to stimulate the local economy by importing prisoners from

For five years, the reasoning behind the U.S. occupation of Iraq has been that the Iraqi government believes that a U.S. military presence is needed to

WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being

The U.S. Postal Service is hurting. In April, The American Independent reported that it’s teetering on the brink of financial insolvency, with no obvious

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has, for months, bent over backward to piece together a health reform proposal capable of winning at

Eric Kleefeld rounds up more local Tea Party coverage and sees a conflict between the hard-line activists who attend these things, versus the more mainstream

According to Ali Soufan, the battle lines in the internal debate at the CIA facility where Abu Zubaydah was to be tortured broke down this way: FBI and CIA all

Via Ezra Klein, today the Washington Times gives us a gift-wrapped present for the holidays:

The DCCC may abandon Hawaii’s special House election if the party cannot unite behind one of its two candidates in the race. CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS has

Following up on the ethics committee’s organizational meeting, in which they officially laid out the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), The New York

When last we left the Manas air base drama, the Kyrgyz parliament had voted to deny the United States access to the big logistic air hub for the Afghanistan

On Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann responded to constituents regarding a petition targeting her on anti-LGBT bullying incidents and suicides that have occurred in the Anoka-Hennepin School District which lie in her congressional district. Tammy Aaberg, the mother of a student who took his own life in 2010, presented Bachmann with the petition two weeks ago

That Afghanistan law essentially robbing women of anything resembling autonomy over their own bodies is worse than I thought: it’s charmingly focused on the

Kate Zernike has written a fascinating piece on the bare-knuckled political activism of the National Precinct Alliance, formed to make sure party committees

Outside of a noon pro-immigration prayer vigil on Capitol Hill, where he called the immigration restriction group Federation for American Immigration Reform --

In 2006, I attended an event hosted by the Robert Taft Club, a proudly un-PC debate society run by young conservative activists who worked at the Leadership

As the Zardari government in Pakistan has an increasingly precarious hold on power, one option for the Obama administration is to turn to Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani to

Rasmussen has former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) up 21 points on Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) in the July 2010 primary for Senate, with a whopping 55 percent of

I guess we should have seen it coming. First, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate on Thursday that the government might want to continue to detain