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Here’s a statement from Jeremy Ben-Ami, executive director of progressive Jewish lobby J Street, on the Obama/Netanyahu meet: J Street commends President

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, read my piece today and emailed over a couple of thoughts about the current debate over

Al Franken gets his groove back. Chuck Norris wants you to vote (for gun rights). Stephen Hawking doesn’t think God created the universe. Carly Fiorina

The former Republican governor of and senator from Virginia is making the rounds among Washington conservative groups pushing his new organization, the American

WorldNetDaily reports on the results of a Wenzel Strategies poll, paid for by the fringe news Website, that asked 790 adults about the conspiracy theories

As the GOP presidential field in Iowa continues to fluctuate wildly between flavor-of-the-month candidates like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S

Although some prominent Illinoisans have come out strongly in favor of the plan to transfer some Guantanamo Bay detainees to the largely vacant Thomson

The Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-awaited endangerment finding today, formalizing its conclusion that greenhouse gases -- and the resulting

Speaking at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee, Wis., President Barack Obama unveiled a new stimulus package designed to jump-start the economy before the November

The Washington Post ran a thought-provoking op-ed Sunday that posed a simple question: What will future generations condemn us for? Kwame Anthony Appiah,

Millionaire farmers will continue getting taxpayer subsidies, sugar producers will inherit more government protections and foreign food aid will take a

As most people have heard, the Obama campaign revolutionized field organizing, especially through Internet outreach and social networks. Now the McCain camp

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both groups)

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 23, 2009. Just in case he wasn’t familiar

Days ago Roy Moore , a former Alabama chief justice known for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from court property, stood on the steps of the Iowa Capitol and voiced his opposition to same-sex marriage rights in the Hawkeye State. Now he’s considering a much longer Iowa engagement while he pursues the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Ben Domenech, a former Senate staffer, is hearing the speculation about the first-term senator from Oklahoma. Coburn has less than $60,000 on hand in his

This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is ... strange. Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so

This is the beginning of an assessment written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the senior-most intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for the Center for a

Prediction time. When the definitive history of the Bush administration’s prosecution of the Iraq war is written, its attempt to force the Iraqi government to

The battle in Colorado over the shape of next decade’s congressional districts continues.