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This morning, I recapped the current legislative efforts to further extend unemployment benefits and aid the millions who have been out of work for more than

Yesterday I highlighted the departure of Gen. William Wallace from the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine command as an example of the end of the Rumsfeld era --

Could America be colorblind in 2028? Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wis.) okay with CIA assassinations, not okay with being kept in the dark. With a little more

Republicans on the Wake County School Board hired retired Army Brigadier Gen. Anthony Tata to be the district’s superintendent, in part for his military

From Dexter Filkins’ New York Times Magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, which you really ought to read in its entirety: I asked General Flynn to

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) says BP’s CEO will be spliced and diced during a House committee hearing today. A GOP candidate vying to challenge Rep. Brad

A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that the State Department extend their review of the Keystone XL pipeline project. Andrew Restuccia, our former AINN colleague, reports at The Hill : The lawmakers, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, raised concerns about TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, pointing to recent leaks at the company’s existing Keystone pipeline and a recent oil spill at an Exxon Mobil Corp

A conservative friend passes on this article about Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) taking heat at a town hall meeting from Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland,

Immigrants rights groups have shifted their immigration organizing efforts to smaller bills, such as the DREAM Act for undocumented students, as comprehensive

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) A federal report released Thursday finds that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., an advocate for controversial immigration enforcement and detention measures, has committed a “wide range of civil rights violations.” The Associated Press reports : The federal government issued a scathing report Thursday that outlines how Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office has committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination and carrying out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints. The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its release, is a result of the U.S.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives keeps gun trafficking data secret. Republicans are catching on to the power of the tweet. The White

As predicted/snarked, not the greatest day at the State Department press briefing. Spokesman P.J. Crowley gets asked about Fatah’s memo expressing

More evidence that it pays to be a boring, hard-right candidate in an election season that contains Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Ken Buck, courtesy of

BOSTON -- Snow is falling in the Bay State, from western Massachusetts to heavily Democratic downtown Boston. In a campaign full of lucky breaks for Republican

On the heels of the first ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, six undocumented students were detained Tuesday in Atlanta during a protest against H.B. 87, Georgia’s immigration-enforcement law. # DREAM Activist — an undocumented students resource network — said in a press release issued Tuesday that “the youth aimed to take a stand against HB 87, a recently passed law modeled after Arizona’s SB1070 that would severely restrict and isolate the immigrant community within the state.” # The DREAM Act would grant people who entered the U.S

With abortion now topic-of-the-moment amid the health reform debate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) weighed in last night with a prediction certain to please

With Thursday’s presidential election in Afghanistan proving difficult to forecast, some analysts in and outside the Obama administration are considering U.S. options if the next government is viewed as illegitimate.

At the bottom of Ann Scott Tyson’s Washington Post piece about Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s assessment of the Afghanistan war is a bit of contradiction-heightening

When I asked earlier today where the outrage was from Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) over the fact that his worst nightmare -- the imprisonment of terrorists in

WorldNetDaily has put out a news release on its, uh, scoop about the forged Kenyan birth certificate that Orly Taitz has filed in court as proof of the

According to a study of 2010 U.S. Census data by UCLA’s Williams Institute , among large U.S. cities, Minneapolis has the fourth highest rate of same-sex couples living within its borders

Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign saw a major shakeup on Monday as her campaign manager and deputy campaign manager quit. Ed Rollins, who said he was leaving the campaign for health reasons, and David Polyansky both wished the campaign well in several media appearances Monday evening. The shakeup comes at an unfortunate time for Bachmann, whose campaign has been pushed to the middle of the Republican pack by Texas Gov.

After House passage of his pre-abortion sonogram bill, state Rep. Sid Miller (R-Stephenville) explained to state Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Center) that sonograms