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Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the Obama administration not to surge U.S. troops before accelerating

The Democratic majority leader was lauded for his efforts enabling passage of the health care reform bill earlier this year. Now, the party, as well as the

Last month, Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno went to the Hill for his confirmation hearing as the U.S.’s new Iraq commander and... no one cared. Odierno, formerly David

Ouch. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) just lit into Sonia Sotomayor for being a terror on the bench and nasty to lawyers, and for attacking lawyers she

Colorado conservation groups will rally on the sidewalk in front of U.S. Rep

Lawyers for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a national conservative Christian legal organization, sent a letter to the Anoka-Hennepin School District this week urging it to maintain its “neutrality policy” on sexual orientation. The letter (PDF) comes in response to a possible lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the National Council for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) , two groups that have accused the district of creating an unsafe environment for LGBT students.

Here’s another measure of how unlikely it is that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) can actually bring along GOP votes for closing Guantanamo Bay if only, only, the

The first week of Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Kentucky has drawn the sort of coverage most first-time candidates wouldn’t dream of.

As oil from the April 20 rig explosion continues to approach the Gulf Coast, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is not backing down from his advocacy of expanded

Anti-gay rights groups around the country will see a cash infusion over the next two years through a plan called Ignite an Enduring Cultural Transformation.

While the number of Floridians in poverty surpassed 3 million in 2010, the Florida Legislature cut state programs aimed at helping those facing unemployment and poverty, a new report finds. According to a recently released study by the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, “the Florida Legislature cut safety net programs like unemployment compensation and Medicaid designed to cushion Floridians from the worst effects of economic downturns,” as the state’s economic troubles worsened.

As the CPAC conference chugs on in Washington, Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian Party, issued this statement reminding the world that the

President George W. Bush met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday in London to discuss Iran and Afghanistan. Brown proposed freezing the assets of

To build on one aspect of Daphne’s post, there was an interesting debate during the July 7 Senate hearing on military commissions about the degree to which it

Felix Salmon, the economics writer for Reuters , writes a column in the wake of last week’s jobs report in which he says that high unemployment is probably here to stay — and that government can’t do much to change that. It’s always a bit dangerous to try to meld the two surveys which make up the payrolls report, but I’m detecting a trend here: insofar as employers are hiring new people, they’re hiring new entrants into the labor force, rather than people making up the ranks of the unemployed.

Here is an excerpt from my interview with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process whereby natural gas is