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On Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann responded to constituents regarding a petition targeting her on anti-LGBT bullying incidents and suicides that have occurred in the Anoka-Hennepin School District which lie in her congressional district. Tammy Aaberg, the mother of a student who took his own life in 2010, presented Bachmann with the petition two weeks ago

Following up on the ethics committee’s organizational meeting, in which they officially laid out the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), The New York

The DCCC may abandon Hawaii’s special House election if the party cannot unite behind one of its two candidates in the race. CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS has

In an interview with Sean Hannity on his ABC News radio show, Sarah Palin chastised President Obama for telling Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), during the health

Obama’s new mortgage assistance program looks great, until you realize that it’s 2 percent of the money he unsuccessfully gave banks to fix the same problem.

The National Organization for Marriage has just blasted out a statement from its unofficial (but most prominent) spokesmodel, Carrie Prejean. I am a Christian

The defense secretary did not indicate a higher likelihood of war, which would threaten Obama’s consensus-building approach.

In the interest of obsessive Kremlinology, something else worth noting from the Washington Post’s timeline of Obama’s decision to declassify last week’s torture

Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) hasn’t even been sworn in as a U.S. senator, but he’s already making waves. First, his colleague-to-be announced that he’d be voting for

According to knowledgeable sources, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has hired John Kiriakou, the former CIA official who assisted with the 2002 capture

So did you see that bonkers New York Times piece about how you have to disclose all your embarrassing IMs and Facebook messages and Twitters if you want a job

From a press conference Defense Secretary Bob Gates held in Kabul: First, I think that the Taliban in Pakistan overreached with their offensive in Buner

Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale (Pic by Debra Todd, via Facebook) Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared today at a Washington, D.C. breakfast fundraiser for Rep

Some very just desserts on this Columbus Day morning: Peter Diamond, a lauded economist at MIT, won the Nobel Prize, along with Dale T. Mortensen and

After much of the day’s news was dominated by Wikileaks’ distribution of a graphic video purporting to show U.S. military personnel in Iraq in 2007 firing from

Speaking at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing today about torture, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) appeared to confirm reports that the Obama