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President Barack Obama spoke to the nation on Tuesday night in the annual State of the Union, and while many of those who watched the speech gave it high marks,

This story was updated at 12:45 p.m. to add further comments from HUD. The Fair Housing Council of Oregon recently published its audit of Portland for the

Yes, that’s the opera based on the transcripts of the former attorney general’s bumbling testimony about the U.S. attorney firing scandal back in 2007. A

Comprehensive immigration reform already stands on shaky ground, but what would happen if a reform bill included a provision that granted gays and lesbians the

Sen. Barack Obama canceled his cameo on Saturday Night Live, saying it was no longer appropriate given the unfolding crisis of Hurricane Ike. But Sen.

Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack appears to be preparing for a U.S. Senate run in 2012 -- though he doesn’t outright say it, only referring to the next

Judging from this morning’s Air Force One press gaggle, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs doesn’t want to go beyond what I outlined in today’s piece,

From the lessons to be learned (or not) from the Massachusetts experience with health care reform comes this bit of history from James Mongan, president and CEO

My LULZ of the day came from this Karl Rove prognostication, which I saw courtesy of ThinkProgress’ Faiz Shakir: One year from now, Gitmo won’t be

Greg Sargent reports: Uh oh. It looks like GOP Senators may make an issue out of the fact that they were kept out of the loop on today’s announcement of the

The Centennial Institute conservative think tank at Colorado Christian University is hosting a “ Tribute to the Troops ” Monday, where the featured speakers will be Sarah Palin and General William “Jerry” Boykin.

The New Mexico Independent’s Trip Jennings reports that Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) is getting in on some of that sweet, sweet executive privilege

The Obama administration, under pressure to turn over key memos written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, has asked the federal judge in New

Don’t think everyone’s happy with the apparently-imminent executive order on closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within the year. Vincent Warren,

One quick thing that isn’t Bob Gates-related. Yesterday, congressional Democratic sources said that they didn’t consider it an act of bad faith that CIA

The ACLU of Michigan has filed a federal lawsuit against the state and the city of Grand Rapids challenging the constitutionality of a state law that forbids panhandling in public places. Michigan law establishes the crime of being a “disorderly person” and part of the definition of that crime is that someone is being disorderly when they are “found begging in a public place.” The city of Grand Rapids has prosecuted for this crime 399 times since 2008, according to documents released to the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request

The Department of Justice filed its hotly anticipated suit against Arizona’s immigration law today, after months of criticism of the law from the White House

This is Michael D. Furlong, a strategic planner for the Joint Information Operations Warfare Command based in Texas. According to a baroque story in today’s

One of the greatest obstacles to overarching energy policy reform is likely to come in the form of a group of moderate Democratic senators from states that rely

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Since I’m at a Naval base, it bears calling attention during a break in the Khadr hearing to a speech Defense Secretary Gates gave this