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Here’s how the balloting for the Republican National Committee chair vote works. There are 168 voters: when one man gets 85 votes, he wins. They can choose

For years, reporters who embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq have traded rumors that the embed office had a blacklist for journalists whose work was

Nearly two months after an explosion at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 workers, investigators finally entered the mine on Wednesday in search of the

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference, just announced that we are at war. In a post at RedState with the headline A

Greg Sargent noted this development in the New York 23rd Congressional District race earlier today, and I’ve got the full email MoveOn sent out asking its

Looking for bi-partisan support for his stimulus package, President Barack Obama wants to hold off on letting bankruptcy judges help struggling homeowners.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, who has been called “weak” by immigration enforcement supporters, has picked up the support of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, notorious for his immigration detention measures and his birther conspiracy theories. The Phoenix New Times reports today : According to multiple national news outlets, Arpaio will campaign with Perry in New Hampshire on Tuesday, where he will give the Texas governor a political tip of the cap. Neither the Sheriff’s Office or Perry’s campaign responded to New Times ‘ request for confirmation of the reported endorsement, and none of the news outlets reporting the political nod are naming names — ABC News cites “a source with knowledge of the endorsement” as the source of the information

Physicians for Human Rights, an anti-torture non-governmental association, synthesizes a bunch of publicly available information to draw a gruesome conclusion:

There’s no shortage of criticism directed at President Obama’s disinclination to prosecute CIA interrogators for torture, a position he’ll surely reiterate

Yesterday at the Heritage Foundation, Brian Sussman, author of the new book Climategate, laid out the reasons Americans shouldn’t believe the hype on global

In a new chapter of the often topsy-turvy story of the Tea Party era, Colorado Democratic US Rep Diana DeGette this week finds herself championing local government rights against Republican efforts to expand federal power. DeGette on Wednesday urged House and Senate appropriations committees staffers to reject legislative stipulations that aim to prohibit the District of Columbia government from using local tax dollars to pay for abortions as part of its employee insurance policies. “Not only would this proposed language undermine the self-governing rights of the people of the District of Columbia, it would deny low-income women access to basic, constitutionally protected, medical services,” DeGette, co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said in a release.

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) has always been a strong advocate for health care reform, but he’s getting some outsize credit from conservative groups for his role in

Few lawmakers on planet earth have pushed more persistently for health care reform in the past decade than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). And although Wyden’s own

Last week, the North Carolina Independent News reported on the state’s Racial Justice Act -- which allows death row inmates to appeal their sentences if they

I’ve been remiss in not linking Greg Sargent’s post about Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and his blunt plan for the House Republicans. We will lose on

Back in January, TWI’s Spencer Ackerman singled out former Prime Minister Tony Blair as one of the world leaders most damaged by his alliance with former

I’d forgotten that eight whole months had passed since the last CNN/Opinion Research poll on the possible GOP primary field. The toplines are good for Mike

Pic via dbmathews.com A Florida House of Representatives Health subcommittee meeting report (.pdf) released Wednesday includes updated information about the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which has the longest waiting list (.pdf) in the U.S. The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (known as ADAP) provides medications for the treatment of HIV and AIDS for people who cannot afford to pay because they are unemployed, uninsured or underinsured.

Damien Paletta at The Wall Street Journal has gotten a look at a 20-page Republican counter to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. The

After yesterday’s market boomerang -- when the Dow Jones Industrial Average cratered nearly 1,000 points before rebounding, all in a matter of minutes and

A Saginaw County judge ruled this week that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision means that property owners in the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawasee floodplain cannot sue Dow Chemical for damages in a class action. Operations at Dow’s Midland plant have spread dioxin — a highly toxic and cancer-causing byproduct of the chemical manufacturing process — and other chemicals, through the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers and into Lake Huron .