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The Department of Justice announced today that four more detainees from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred: one to Hungary, one to France, and two to

According to recent reports, Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, has again aligned himself with a controversial group. As reported yesterday by blogger Spencer Ackerman , West will sponsor a July 25 briefing by Citizens for National Security , a self-described group of “concerned citizens interested in education on extremism, terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.” # From a press release on the event: # Less than two months before the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, Congressman Allen West (R-FL) will sponsor a Capitol Hill briefing this coming July 25, on Homegrown Jihad in the USA: Culmination of the Muslim Brotherhood’s 50-year History of Infiltrating America

“In today’s world, without question, we’ve learned two lessons,” FHA Commissioner David Stevens told reporters this winter. “One: homeownership is important to the sustainability of communities. And two: not everybody should own a home.”

After wrapping up a Miami rally on Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show, appearing via satellite in front of a

Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an unholy alliance between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting

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President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) Fifty-six organizations sent a letter to President Obama yesterday asking him to clarify his position on the ability of publicly funded institutions to hire or fire people based on their religion. Catholics for Choice and 55 other religious, civil rights, labor and health groups sent a letter (.pdf) to Obama asking him to comment on remarks he made “at a town hall meeting on July 22 in College Park, MD,” according to the group’s press release . The groups took issue with a the president suggesting “that he supports allowing religious organizations to hire and fire employees in federally funded positions based upon the employee’s religion”: This statement is in direct contradiction to comments he made while campaigning for the presidency.

Mike Allen at Politico reports that President Barack Obama will unveil the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2010, a presidential check on Congressional

After a pair of Sen. Barack Obama’s advisers published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal today clarifying the presumed Democratic nominee’s tax policy, the

During a recent retreat featuring a cast of influential conservatives, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his support for a controversial Ohio bill seeking to

Christine O’Donnell lost her U.S. Senate race in Delaware by seventeen points -- but she had $924,800 still left over in her campaign account after the election

Ben Smith has a rose-colored look at a possible Senate run in New York by Mort Zuckerman, the 72-year-old media mogul and pundit who seems interested in Sen.

The Minnesota Independent reports that the Al Franken campaign has just claimed its first lead of the Minnesota Senate recount, by a margin of 22 votes. The

The tripartisan Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Senate climate squad made a splash this weekend with its decision to drop cap-and-trade from its (eventual) legislative

A new Gallup poll shows that the tea party has lost major ground in terms of mainstream American support since last year’s crop of tea party candidates took

The Fred Karger 2012 campaign has sent an email to CNN executives, asking them to “Let Fred In” to its New Hampshire debate on June 13. In addition to the memorandum sent by Karger, the campaign is encouraging its supporters to contact CNN directly to further press the case for Karger’s inclusion in the Republican debate. The full text of the message is below: MEMORANDUM TO: Jim Walton, President, CNN Worldwide; Ken Jautz, Executive Vice President, CNN FROM: Fred Karger DATE: May 30, 2011 RE: Let Fred In the New Hampshire Debate The June 13, 2011 New Hampshire Republican Debate that you are hosting along with the New Hampshire Union Leader and WMUR-TV is fast approaching, and I have yet to receive an invitation.

With conservatives screaming from the rafters about the elimination of a business tax deduction for retiree benefits in the Democrats’ health reform law, The

OK, one more Pentagon budget chart. This should give a sense of the Pentagon budget in a broader context. Even through the Bush years, there ran a critique