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Everybody has an opinion about Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Denver and the Occupy movement as a whole. And while well over half of all Americans approve of the multi-city protest , it certainly has it detractors as well. Count the right-wing religious group Family Research Council as one of the detractors

The Awake the State Summit logo (Pic via summit.awakethestate.com) Awake the State is organizing and mobilizing Floridians who are against Gov.

By now you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of the sole legal U.S. resident detained indefinitely -- yes, that means

The headline reads, Feeling flush: Virginia’s budget surplus doubles. The article notes: Virginia closed its fiscal 2010 budget with a $403.2 million budget

Forty years ago, in September 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive -- which changed mainstream America’s view of the Vietnam War. In living

As the three senators crafting climate legislation try to rally moderates behind their cause, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) could be a key player, since she’s

Lawmakers and immigration restrictionists advocating closure of the border with Mexico to prevent the spread of swine flu into the United States may want to

A four-plus page section of the 2004 CIA inspector general report on torture is called Endgame, and, ominously, all but two paragraphs, far separated from

Many Arabs and Muslims are disappointed that Obama has not lived up to his promises, especially on the Arab-Israeli conflict, said Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor and the co-author of a recent study of Obama’s global engagement efforts.

Organizers for this year’s “Summer of Mercy 2.0″ have released the schedule for their nine-day event aimed at intimidating abortion provider Dr. LeRoy Carhart in Germantown, Md.

Despite Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck’s promise to adopt a positive stance in his political ads (leaving groups like Crossroads GPS to do the dirty

A new ABC News poll found 67 percent of Americans approve of President-elect Barack Obama’s handling of his transition thus far. That’s good news for Obama,

With Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner by his side, President Barack Obama just announced the highly anticipated new executive pay limits for companies receiving

Two Pakistani Army generals confess a painful truth about the Bush administration’s years of giving billions to Pakistan: Between 2002 and 2008, while al-Qaida

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced seven sites for its ongoing and congressionally mandated study of the potential impacts of the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water supplies

I’ve talked to quite a few Gulf coast residents who have been waiting weeks to receive compensation for their losses from the oil spill. Here’s one thing that I

Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Herman Cain would benefit from spending more time in the Hawkeye State as the Jan. 3 Iowa Caucuses approach, Gov

Keep Conservatives United, a Super PAC supporting GOP presidential contender Michele Bachmann, released an ad this week attacking one of Bachmann’s main competitors for the Republican nomination, Rick Perry. The ad claims Perry engaged in record borrowing as governor of Texas

Bank Transfer Day comes tomorrow, Nov. 5, but calls for people to take their money out of big banks and deposit it in community banks and credit unions are already having an effect. The Credit Union National Association (known as CUNA) reports today that “at least 650,000 consumers across the nation have joined credit unions in the past four weeks, reflecting consumers’ reactions to rising fees at banks.” CUNA “ estimates that credit unions have added $4.5 billion in new savings accounts.

Kevin Drum sort of freaked out over Robert McNamara’s death and let a very human burst of empathy explode into an unnecessary spasm of self-loathing. As a

Sarah Palin is flying to Iowa to speak tonight at the Ronald Reagan Dinner, a big annual affair in Des Moines, and once again increasing speculation as to

Sure enough, the story I wrote about that appeared Monday in USA Today that said the stimulus bill would provide jobs for some 300,000 undocumented immigrants