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Fox News hosts have been hammering Janeane Garofalo and MSNBC for the comedienne’s comment (made on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show) that the Tea Party protests

PM, a series on the Australian Broadcast Channel, tracked down David Bomford, the man whose Australian birth certificate was used as the basis for the forged

Apropos of this post about Lawrence Wilkerson’s charge that the torture apparatus built by the Bush administration was concerned with manufacturing an

Speaking of the Green Movement, the Iranian regime directed a new spate of violence against the Greens during street demonstrations yesterday commemorating the

The Louisiana House of Representatives Thursday unanimously approved a measure to require all abortion clinics in the state to post a sign (to be measured

Fresh off the heels of its national True the Vote summit, Houston tea party group King Street Patriots (KSP) is seeking to raise $500,000 to achieve its goal of

Rasmussen Reports finds Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) holding a narrow 41-38 lead against Democratic Illinois Treasurer (and likely nominee) Alexi Giannoulias. In his

Back in June, a small group of birthers arrived in Washington and began handing out grand jury presentments to confused staff at congressional offices and

President Obama’s decision to promise not to prosecute the CIA officers who carried out the range of freakish conduct and torture described in the latest set of

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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Usually when you hear about cross-border attacks here, they are perpetrated by the Taliban. Not so much in recent weeks -- this

Just in from the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.): the upper chamber will hold a procedural vote next Tuesday afternoon to proceed to

Stephen Walt blogged yesterday to put some stress on the idea that the goal in Afghanistan justifying the war should be to eradicate an even larger safe haven

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering this question, then you should probably get yourself to the How to Take Back America Conference in St. Louis on Sept.

Want another example of Mike’s thesis that Bush has lost his congressional mojo? Yesterday the House approved a measure sponsored by Rush Holt (D-NJ) to

As I reported today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ thoughts on the proper U.S. force posture in Afghanistan is a work in progress, according to Pentagon

Update: A few hours after this item was posted, the AP reported that ACORN’s Las Vegas offices were raided by the FBI. When the Assn. of Community

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by a Canadian victim of extraordinary rendition against former U.S. officials,

In February, TWI’s Daphne Eviatar called attention to the weak protections in the federal economic stimulus bill for whistleblowers who expose contracting

St. Paul--Standing on the floor of the Xcel center last night made me embarrassed about where I come from. Born in Ohio to immigrant parents, with a father who

Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) has rapidly signed up 99 co-sponsors for his Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009, which I wrote about last week. All but one

Fed governors and market gurus have been warning about the threat of inflation to the United States economy -- but there remains no sign of prices rising at