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Our recent post on a new poll indicating that more that 52 percent of the country is opposed to allowing the open carry of loaded guns in public has left some

<p>The American Family Association is giving us <a id="pep1" href="http://www.afa.net/pb2008b/index.html" title="a rare

Pulled from my iPhone camera at CPAC -- thus, the occasionally quiet audio -- is a sample of the reception Max Blumenthal got while trying to interview ACORN

President Barack Obama’s opening remarks at a California event were disrupted, according to press poll coverage, by a man who yelled, “Jesus Christ is the son of God.” When Obama agreed, the man yelled back, “You are the anti-Christ.” CBS News footage of the exchange is embedded below. The disruption began shortly after Obama began an introductory exchange with Tyler Ferguson, master of ceremonies for the House of Blues event in Los Angeles and an actor in the ABC TV series Modern Family. The two were discussing the recent repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which allows gays and lesbians to openly serve their nation

The White House’s response to this morning’s dismal jobs report? Everything is coming up daisies -- just really, really slowly. Christina Romer, the head of the

The portrait of 2009’s passel of counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan is becoming clearer. Bolster troop levels. Recruit tribal militias to battle

First appeared September 25, 2008 Forty years ago, in September 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive — which changed mainstream

First appeared November 4, 2008 Chicago, Ill — This victory is more than historic. President-elect Barack Obama’s victory marks political progress

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on May 26, 2009. One of the things that most

All four Public Regulation Commissioners signed a statement urging Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., to resign his seat Tuesday; Block was not present at the proceedings. “Given the allegations and recent evidence that has surfaced, we encourage and urge Commissioner Block to immediately resign his position as soon as possible,” reads the statement.

The more I read the CIA inspector general report released today, the clearer it seems that any real investigation of CIA abuses will have to question the

That’s the warning coming from the Australian government. In a report released Wednesday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority found that the chances of

On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. We ought

It’s not a whip count or anything like that, but as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to push for Senate ratification of the New START nuclear

Taking a quick cue from Massachusetts, the Obama administration is putting on its populist hat this week to take on the nation’s largest financial institutions

This past spring, debate in Colorado over a same-sex civil unions bill raised questions about citizen equality, child and family protections, religious freedom and anti-gay bigotry. News coming out of Illinois, where a civil unions bill that passed in the fall is now taking effect, resurfaces those same issues. Catholic Charities of Rockford, a city just northwest of Chicago, announced it would no longer provide its state-funded foster care and adoption services.

On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 17 38 45 Likely Opponents Senator Stance on Public Option Stance

More than 120 people, including delegations from 20 states, participated in a national summit on the ongoing AIDS Drug Assistance Program crisis held this week in Washington, D.C. The theme of the gathering was: “When will Washington come to the rescue?” # The delegations included Florida and Georgia , the states that have the first- and second-longest Drug Assistance Program waiting lists, respectively, in the U.S. The Drug Assistance Programs supply life-saving drugs to HIV/AIDS patients who are uninsured and/or unable to afford their medications.

The CIA has already copped to destroying videotapes in 2005 that detail brutal interrogations. All in all, as the American Civil Liberties Union forced the CIA

It was a bill so uncontroversial that it sailed through both the House and Senate without a single objection before George W. Bush made it law with the stroke

In October, it was Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) who rescued the Children’s Health Insurance Program from oblivion in the Senate Finance Committee. This week,