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The weekend before thanksgiving, Colorado Springs-based evangelical group Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage will host a Republican presidential candidate forum in Des Moines centered on social issues. Focus on the Family staffer Tom Minnery said the hosts of the event don’t plan to “get into theology as such” because there wouldn’t be enough time for the candidates to “solve theological questions.” Primary campaign frontrunner Mitt Romney, who is Mormon, has yet to commit to the event. In an appearance at CitizenLink, Focus on the Family’s political media outlet, Minnery hoped Romney would come around

Although court-watchers were predicting that the Supreme Court would decide yesterday whether to hear the appeal from a group of Chinese Muslim detainees at

Spencer Kornhaber follows up on the story of Orly Taitz seeking ... something from the United Nations as she faces various shadowy threats to her crusade to

These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like the waterboard date back to medieval

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) this afternoon that she believes the death penalty is now settled law and that she has

I wrote in my earlier post about Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy’s forthcoming Afghanistan speech at the American Enterprise Institute

Muntader al-Zaidi, the 29-year old journalist arrested for throwing his shoes at President Bush this weekend, faced an Iraqi judge today. Via Siun at

We know what John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security thinks about the future of the U.S.-Iraq relationship. What does Samir Sumaida’ie, the Iraqi

Confirming what many have been saying for years, a new survey finds that teenagers who pledge to forgo sexual activity until marriage were just as likely to

Retiring Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel was once called (R-France) on the cover of National Review for his various conservative unorthodoxies. According to Sam

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who seems to have made a second career in this sort of thing, is accusing the White House of promoting Democratic power lawyer Bob

As more details emerge on workplace safety abuses in Michigan after the Enbridge oil spill, a new report by the Center for Progressive Reform argues the

In advance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s audience with President Obama tomorrow, Meghan O’Sullivan, the Bush White House’s Iraq director from 2004

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie announced yesterday that he and four state judges will oversee the recount of votes in the U.S. Senate

Today, the Obama administration announced it will spend $3 billion more to help jobless homeowners. First, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) didn’t mince words today in calling for the repeal of the long-standing ban on gay men donating blood. Not a single piece of

Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University yesterday, President Obama did what environmental advocates have been urging him to do for weeks now: He turned public

An interesting tidbit from this weekend’s New York Times article on lawyers who attempt to specialize on Supreme Court cases: Critics of such specialists argue