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When it was launched in March, the Foreign Policy Initiative ’s mission was always to back robust, whatever-it-takes operations in Afghanistan. I see that FPI’s

President Obama’s 2012 campaign has a new senior adviser — and he is a former lobbyist for the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the environmental group Friends of the Earth . The campaign hired Broderick Johnson of the lobbying firm Bryan Cave LLP, which lobbied on behalf of TransCanada, the owners of the proposed pipeline.

Don’t miss Wired’s amazing story about an Iraq-stationed Army specialist, Bradley Manning, who was arrested two weeks ago for leaking Wikileaks a gruesome video

Several states — but not New Mexico — have received warnings from the Department of Justice over their medical marijuana programs, leading them to reassess their programs, according to the Associated Press . The “ominous-sounding letters” have gone to the states in recent weeks. The letters — sent to Colorado and Washington , among other states — are perhaps a signal that the federal government is further abandoning its stated hands-off approach to medical marijuana in the states.

Former New Mexico Republican Gov.

Ben Smith calls Judge James Robertson’s memo dismissing Hollister v. Soetoro a birther smackdown, and he’s right. The suit, which — as the more racist

Less than two weeks after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) became the first Senate Democrat to announce her opposition to the labor-friendly Employee Free Choice

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he plans to use an executive order to ease student loan debt for millions of Americans.

How did prison guards at Guantanamo overlook three men hanging from nooses in their cells for more than two hours, in what was supposed to be a super-high

The American Independent is in a period of transition. David Bennahum, CEO and founder of the American Independent News Network (AINN), our parent company,

The song and video of O.T.P. - One Term President by Wolverines has been making the rounds -- the fate of all eyebrow-raising conservative rap, I suppose.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will give her own rebuttal to President Obama’s State of The Union Tuesday, broadcast by the Tea Party Express. There are two

At the end of last week, the Obama administration reportedly told Senate Democrats to drop the $50 billion liquidation fund -- often referred to as a bailout

Well, it won’t be all doom and gloom here today. Consumer confidence -- an important bellwether of increasing household spending -- shot up last month. The

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) just agreed to postpone committee votes on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Deputy Attorney

Workers protest for the extension of the TANF Emergency Fund. (Flickr/JobsWithJustice)

A local news channel in Atlanta reports that three Teach for America instructors confessed to participating in the district-wide cheating scandal that involved

As I reported yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opted to invite Gen. David Petraeus to testify alongside Ambassador Karl Eikenberry this morning

The Florida Presidential Preference Primary Committee’s decision to move the date of that state’s GOP presidential primary to January is a hot topic for conservative media and bloggers. In a piece titled “Florida Republicans for Obama,” The Wall Street Journal comments: Republicans will have a hard time losing the next Presidential election, but they may be up to the job.

Just when the Republican Party is skidding along to its lowest level of power since the 1970s, here comes Scott Rasmussen, the only pollster who matters: A new