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That’s going to be the focus of this morning’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning with Gen. David Petraeus and Michele Flournoy, the

With the deadline for filing campaign finance reports this week, Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced that she raised $1 million for next year’s election, matching her chief Republican competitor, Rep

The president-elect is something new in American politics. In showing unfailing respect for those with competing views, he attempts to produce solutions that will accommodate the defining commitments of his fellow citizens. But he also wants to transform the nation’s self-understanding.

Earlier today, the White House reiterated that it opposes a blanket moratorium on foreclosures, preferring to work with servicers and lenders to sort out the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Stephen Xenakis, a retired brigadier general in the Army medical corps and a psychiatrist as well as a general practitioner, didn’t have time

The Anoka-Hennepin School District is defending its policies in light of lawsuits by six district students , unfavorable coverage on the editorial pages of area newspapers and a renewed national spotlight on the accusation of an unsafe environment for LGBT youth in the district’s schools. The district says its policies are not to blame for bullying in the district, but others have charged that the schools’ policy that limits LGBT discussions in schools is harmful to students. Last week, the Star Tribune editorial board called the school district “gutless.” “While polls show that Americans increasingly favor tolerance and equal rights for gays, Anoka-Hennepin is stuck in the past, hiding behind an ambiguous policy in the name of neutrality,” the paper wrote.

A handful of religious right groups are criticizing the Obama administration’s role in urging countries doing business with the United States to ease up on

On Wednesday morning, the House Committee on Rules and Administration approved an amendment that would codify a ban on gay marriage within the Minnesota Constitution by a vote of 13 to 12.

After her surprise victory over Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary, sudden national figure and social conservative heroine Christine

When I asked Mike Connolly of the Club for Growth what, exactly, could strip candidates who’d signed the Club’s Repeal It pledge of official support, Connolly

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is playing the role of unsuspecting victim in the face of attacks from Democrats over the undisclosed nature of its campaign

It appears that two employees of the Utah Department of Workforce Services were behind the list of possible illegal immigrants released early this week. The

The environment’s relationship to the economy is a key theme for Sal Pace, minority leader in the Colorado House, as he challenges incumbent Republican U.S. Rep

Texas’ business-friendly climate has been one of Gov. Rick Perry’s favorite talking points on the campaign trail, and he’s played up the role of incentive

Sen. John Gleason, who last week staged a sit-in to protest the failure of the state legislature to pass an anti-bullying bill, has released a Youtube video encouraging people to contact their legislature and pressure them to vote for the bill.

Questions for the new Pecora Commission. Iowa lawmaker irked oath of office omits God. Google hires ex-McCain campaign communications chief. What’s

Former U.S. Sen.

A Draft Ford website has ... 11 signatures. Lockheed Martin never forgets it’s working for John Murtha. Obama shot himself in the foot over recess

Lt. Dan Choi -- the West Point graduate, Iraq veteran, Arabic linguist and arguably most forceful advocate for repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell -- had a simple

Last week, a memo (PDF) circulated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton instructed federal officials throughout the county to use

Would the death penalty turn terror suspects into martyrs? There’s unrest in the Dem caucus over Afghanistan. Dobbs polls at six percent in the 2012

TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll recorded an episode of Bloggingheads.tv that went up today. The theme? The political ironies of

For the second time this week, the House tonight passed a health care reform bill designed to complement the larger reform package that President Obama signed