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More than one week after initial reporting by the LGBT-news blog Good As You, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) finally addressed its usage of

Dodd’s exit will weaken strengthen financial reform. Shorter John McCain: I’m the man. The EPA declares war on smog. Congress tackles football

The McChrystal strategy review already presents something of a lacunae between an assessment of the damage done to the mission by Afghan governmental corruption

Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction

The week before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is one of countless stories poking gentle fun at the stranger items on the schedule. Alex

Moderate Democrats have grown wary of big spending bills, fearing that support for such measures could haunt them on the campaign trail this year.

Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging

Action comes less than a month after Pentagon leadership suggested the ban on open gay service wouldn’t be overturned this year.

Reading Weigel’s post about the fetishization that the teabaggers have with analogizing themselves to terrorists, revolutionaries and guerrilas represents an

NASHVILLE -- I’ve just arrived for the first annual National Tea Party Convention, but most of the attendees signed up last night, and some have started posting

The Iowa Democratic Party struck back at Crossroads GPS today, a 501(c)4 organization that’s begun running ads against U.S.

Marine Gen. James T. Conway, the commandant of the Marine Corps, became the first military service chief -- or any flag officer, for that matter, so far -- to

Democratic members of Congress balked at being called socialists during a debate on Friday over the Republicans’ proposed budget and the Progressive Caucus’ proposed budget. Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama accused the progressives in Congress of being socialists who are putting America “at risk.” Rep.

Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote to President Obama yesterday urging him to block the impending release of photographs showing

An official familiar with the task force’s work cautioned that experienced interrogators on the task force believe that a narrow focus missed the point of interrogation work.

At last night’s reception for the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s Hold Their Feet to the Fire campaign, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) gave a spirited

Although Eric Holder has been careful not to say he made a mistake in recommending a pardon for the members of FALN, a Puerto Rican paramilitary group regarded

Greg Sargent has the scoop on an internal GOP poll that tests the effectiveness of attacks on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) credibility on the

In my last post on the eyewitness evidence the government claims it has against Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan who just won his habeas corpus case, I noted that