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So says Capt. Matt Pottinger, one of the co-authors of Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn’s scathing assessment of intelligence operations in Afghanistan: This is

State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee, has filed a bill that would end the death penalty in Florida

At an intimate meet-and-greet held on Sarasota’s Main Street this morning, GOP Senate candidate and former Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner pitched himself as the “principled” conservative in the race, asking the small crowd to help him “fight Washington” and “save” the United States. # The Hasner campaign has touted its strategy of connecting with grassroots supporters at the expense of big fundraising totals, and today’s Sarasota event brought out a handful of important local conservative faces — Sarasota Republican Party chair Joe Gruters and right-wing blogger and radio host Richard Swier among them

With Republicans in the House objecting to the $96.7 billion war supplemental to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars due to its provisions funding the

At the request of the federal government, a federal judge yesterday put a temporary halt to the legal clash over Appalachia’s largest mountaintop coal mine, the

The secretary of state made a case that intransigence on a two-state solution was against Israeli interests.

Wall Street is lobbying hard on a bill it sees as a gold mine.

The popular education blog Eduwonk included a post today stating school reformers like former NYC superintendent of schools Joel Klein, current superintendent

Plans for a new immigration detention facility in South Florida have attracted two of the largest players in the private prison industry, both of which are partnering with different local governments to offer competing proposals. # The GEO Group is partnering with Florida City to bring a proposed immigration detention facility to Miami-Dade County. One of its primary competitors is a partnership between the Broward County town of Southwest Ranches and the private prison firm Corrections Corporation of America, which is currently the largest private immigration detention contractor in the county

From Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, via The Associated Press: The second-highest ranking U.S. general in Afghanistan says it will take longer to send some troops to

PITTSBURGH - Three days ago, a Pennsylvania voter thanked Sen. Arlen Specter (D-a.) for his opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. At the Americans for

State Rep. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) Ohio, much like Florida, now has a law on the books making it more difficult for young women to access a bypass of the state’s parental notification for abortion law.

Experts say Colorado could be the state that tips the 2012 presidential election. “It will be hard to win a close election without winning Colorado,” said Colorado College political science professor Bob Loevy. It’s not just local political observers who think Colorado will be key In a front page story today, The New York Times reports that Obama’s hopes for a second term may come down to Colorado and a couple of other states.

Gov. Rick Perry has been drawing fire for weeks from activists, watchdog groups and some churches, for partnering with the American Family Association for

The vote was 244 to 188, with no Republicans supporting the bill. Repeat: Zero Republicans voted for the bill. That, of course, means that all the efforts

Courtesy of a Republican congressman, quoted by The Associated Press’s Deb Reichmann: Even Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is

Activists who plan to take over the Michigan Capitol late Tuesday afternoon say while the move may appear aggressive it is really just an “expression of free speech,” and a move meant to keep “the people’s house” open.

Though a 2012 referendum to reverse Maine’s 2009 same-sex-marriage repeal is not yet official, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has already

Regulation is like a four-letter word, said one former Labor Department official.

My colleague Matt DeLong caught Sen. John McCain’s interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and passed along a quick discussion about the U.S.-Iraq basing deal that

When was the last time you heard a politician campaign on promises of cutting government waste? When was the last time those promises turned out to be empty

Conservative Christian site LifeNews.com has announced that Ryan Bomberger, head of the controversial Radiance Foundation, will join the site as a contributing blogger. Former Planned Parenthood director turned anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson was also recently named a contributing blogger for the site. # From an article detailing Bomberger’s new position: # As a respected pro-life activist Bomberger is taking his campaign of re-establishing the notion that “Life has purpose” to a new platform: the LifeNews.com pro-life news service.

With the 2012 GOP presidential field wide open, it’s only natural that the eyes of some Republican strategists would turn to the popular governor of a state