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Once again, Republican candidates are clamoring to be more like Ronald Reagan. There may be no higher compliment on the right than to be considered Reaganesque. Of course, once you drill down, Reagan’s actual positions on taxes, spending and immigration may well fit in better in the Democratic Party than in the current GOP.

Earlier today I wondered what Gen. David McKiernan, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, thought about empowering tribal forces to augment Afghan police and

President Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month to attend part of the international climate conference, The Washington Post reports. The decision

At a forum sponsored by the George Washington University to be broadcast tomorrow on CNN’s new Christiane Amanpour program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham

My pseudonymous friend Charlie has been AWOL from her perch at Abu Muqawama for so long that I thought Undersecretary of Defense for Policy-designate Michele

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. (Pic by jonworth, via Flickr) Sen.

The Baton Rouge Advocate reported new details today about the scandal that keeps on giving. I’m talking about Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) troubled aide, Brent

DNC chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, called the GOP’s agenda “anti-women” and “a war on women” yesterday . Her comments came in response to recent efforts by the GOP to defund Planned Parenthood and to end Title X funding for clinics that perform abortions. # “It’s just so hard for me to grasp how they could be so anti-women as they are,” Wasserman Schultz told the media at a press event, according to U.S

A Republican state Representative from Jackson County is coming under fire for accepting tax breaks and government loans for his company and then laying off more workers. Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) received a tax abatement in 2005 from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for his non-union company, Orbitforms

Gov. Mark Dayton addressed reporters and the state of Minnesota on Monday , detailing his efforts to resolve the state’s budget and end the government shutdown

Do states with legalized medical marijuana see an increase in employment related injuries or illnesses? You could probably argue the point either way, but what do the statistics show?

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today dedicated a new visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument . The Department of the Interior said in a release that it expects the new visitor center to increase tourism and generate economic growth and jobs in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah in conjunction with a new exhibit hall to be opened next week. “With funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we were able to construct a new visitor center and exhibit hall that will enable the park to serve as an economic engine and support jobs for communities in this area,” Salazar said.

Take a look at this new ABC/BBC/ARD poll of Afghan public opinion. (Via The Washington Post.) The topline is that public support for the U.S. presence is

Apparently Russian President Dmitri Medvedev doesn’t want to wait until his foreign minister meets Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday to

The White House sent out a press release last night cataloging statements of praise by leaders in various fields for President Obama’s decision, announced

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple

President-Elect Obama’s new economic team was the big announcement of the day on Monday, and overall the reviews were mostly good. Smart, competent, experienced

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A mysterious YouTube member named, conveniently, megwhitmanonvanjones, has uploaded a May 2009 San Francisco Chronicle video of 2010 GOP California

A study released today ranked the top 100 American companies on how well they disclose their political activities, finding that many companies are moving towards adoption of disclosure policies, although others, such as 3M, are being left behind. The ability for corporations to spend huge amounts of cash on elections without disclosure arose with the U.S