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A coalition of psychiatrists sent an open letter to Barack Obama yesterday urging him not to appoint John Brennan, the former head of the Terrorist Threat

Immigration is an important issue in the United States, but is it something the GOP nomination for president should hinge on? Is there a reason that as unauthorized immigration from Mexico to the U.S.

Nearly a month after the executives of the Big Three automakers arrived in Washington on corporate jets to ask Congress for a bailout, a group of auto workers made the same trip by carpool. Their mission was the same, but the blue-collar image they projected was strikingly different.

The latest tweet from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa): Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words death boards. Even liberal press never accused me of

Via Democracy Arsenal. CQ Politics’ Political Insider reports some glaring similarities between parts of Sen. John McCain’s statement to reporters earlier today

Here’s Ali Soufan, from his written opening statement and his spoken summary, delivered from behind the wooden partition. One aspect of Ali Soufan’s

Sen. John McCain gave another statement to reporters earlier this morning about the escalating conflict in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In the

Quinnipiac is the latest pollster to find a huge uptick in support for an Afghanistan escalation, making last week’s speech by President Obama -- somewhat

Bo Dietl, an MSNBC analyst and Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council (appointed by former Gov. George Pataki), unleashed a disturbing,

Everybody has a spoof of Christine O’Donnell’s I’m not a witch ad. Sharron Angle and Harry Reid accuse each other of helping child molesters. Joe

New York state dairy farmer John Bunting doesn’t use an artificial bovine growth hormone on his cows for one key reason. He doesn’t want them getting sick.

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.

First appeared March 4, 2008 Usually I limit my blogging to environment-related topics, but this was just too good to be true (though I assure you, it is).

The other day I wondered what the reported ascendence of Jim Steinberg to deputy secretary of state meant for Richard Holbrooke’s job prospects. Reading about

From The Washington Post: The economy lost more jobs than expected in December while the unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent, as a sluggish economic

The White House has announced that it will issue an executive order reiterating the 34-year old prohibition on the federal funding of abortion. The move was

As I wrote on Wednesday, there are already several lawsuits from torture victims pending against the United States, and some legal scholars predict many more to

Former President George W. Bush’s chief of staff and senior adviser Karl Rove was greeted by right-wing protesters Wednesday evening at the annual Lincoln Dinner in Colorado Springs , a fundraiser for the El Paso County Republican Party.