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Hastings Wyman has a good piece up at the Southern Political Report, talking to Oklahoma strategists about the NRCC’s eyebrow-raising inclusion of Rep. Dan

The Department of Justice this morning announced that twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen

Later this morning, I’ll be on a conference call with the deputy U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi security forces. It’d be interesting to get his

The potential blowback from the Landrieu sting extends to some Republican lawmakers.

An early spin email goes out from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Last time a Democrat held NY-23 - 1871 Last time a Republican held CA-10

Yesterday we noted that John McCain had become the first candidate to speak out in favor of the anti-vaccine lobby. It turns out that McCain’s involvement began

To investigate the merits of a new Church committee to take a comprehensive look at intelligence activities, I asked someone who was part of the first one in

Another sign of the strength of fervor over illegal immigration: A Texas state representative camped out for two days this weekend to submit anti-illegal

A Michigan-based anti-abortion group, represented by the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, lost an appeal before the 6th Circuit in a case filed against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano over a report on dangerous right wing extremist groups. In April, 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released a report entitled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment . The report was one of many threat assessment reports shared between DHS and state and local law enforcement agencies to keep them apprised of potential dangers to be aware of

GOP Senate candidate Craig Miller (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Taking a swipe at an unexpected group, U.S. Senate candidate Craig Miller tells Creative Loafing Tampa that “young people” are too reliant on the government and need to “get off butt, go get a job,” according to an interview posted yesterday

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing now into the U.S. attorney firings. Committee members’ questions to Glenn Fine, inspector general of the

Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a bill that sets a 48 month lifetime limit on receiving welfare cash payments in the state of Michigan

Swift Communications newspapers in Colorado will soon ask online readers to pay for access to content. The Carson City, Nevada-based company, which owns a slew of publications in Colorado and is sometimes mocked for its “ McMountain News ” mass-production publishing style, has already started erecting paywalls at publications elsewhere and will likely begin charging customers here next year

When the Pentagon’s leadership announced a process to end the military’s ban on open gay service before Congress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates played the

Colorado Representative and head of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus Diana DeGette is surprised to find herself doing heated battle on a number of fronts in the war over abortion rights this early in the year. This session of Congress was supposed to be about jobs and the economy, she has said, but the new Republican majority right out of the gate has gone full steam ahead with two bills aimed at expanding restrictions on federal abortion funding while, outside of Capitol Hill, conservative media activists have launched an attack on Planned Parenthood , using cut-and-paste undercover videos to spur Congress to slash all federal aid to the organization. “I’m surprised, given that the number one issue right now is jobs, that the Republican leadership would make extreme position one of their top three priorities of the session,” DeGette told Politico

A lawsuit filed against Texas’ mandatory pre-abortion sonogram bill saw its first hearing at a U.S. District Court in Austin on Wednesday. Lawyers for the

It (the war) has not even been an issue in the course of this campaign, said Pennsylvania political expert Terry Madonna.

The elections are over. Let’s all speculate about the next ones. Bush says the worst moment of his presidency was an insult from Kanye West. Lion cubs

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When federal agents led a raid on medical marijuana businesses in Montana last week , questions were raised as to whether these businesses were raided because they were suspected of selling out of the proverbial back door to people without medical marijuana permits–or whether they were raided simply for being medical marijuana businesses. While answers are not readily forthcoming, facts suggest it was a little of both

A couple of months ago, as part of my counterinsurgency series, I pointed out that an impressive number of women were in positions of leadership in the emergent