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After the August electoral impasse destroyed the partnership of Kai Eide and Peter Galbraith, the United Nations’ top diplomats in Afghanistan, it’s been

Last updated April 22. On Monday, April 5, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers and raised new questions about

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Last week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) threatened a Republican boycott of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s markup of the Kerry-Boxer climate

Insanity is the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded terrorism alert system, which tells you nothing except that people are capable of coloring

LANSING — The release of radio transmissions between the Lansing police officers and the dispatch center on March 16 are raising questions about why Lansing Police Chief Teresa Szymanski ordered officers to leave the Capitol during a protest that resulted in more than a dozen arrests. Szymanski has defended her decision, claiming that she determined, after consulting with Michigan State Police, the mayor and officers on scene that MSP did not require assistance in arrests. However, the radio transmissions show that officers were dispatched to the Capitol in order to transport protesters who had already been arrested for being in the building after it was closed.

State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad is having surgery for a brain tumor on Wednesday, he wrote on his Facebook page Monday evening

More than half the country opposes allowing people to carry loaded firearms in public places, according to a poll released today by the Brady Center to Prevent

A new anti-abortion rights billboard campaign set to appear in Los Angeles soon is targeting Latinas. The billboard says in both English and Spanish that “the most dangerous place for a Latino is in the womb.” # The group behind the billboard is the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles

Echoing the recent message from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters today that the middle of an employment

I wrote last year about the strategy that had brought some online success to the Washington Examiner: editor Mark Tapscott’s aggressive hiring of conservative

Michigan’s largest teachers union is formally supporting efforts to recall the governor and members of the state House following last week’s passage of bills that reduce job security and limit collective bargaining rights. In a message to members on Friday the Michigan Education Association said that it will support existing recall efforts and will also consider backing some efforts to recall state senators. “Our elected leaders need to know that we will not sit idly by as they try to dismantle public education, destroy the middle class, and defeat MEA and other public sector unions!” the group said as it urged teachers to use their summer break to become politically active.

Blogger Lowell Feld notices that Michael Schwartz -- the longtime conservative activist-turned-Hill staffer whom I heard wax poetic about the gay-making powers

The foreclosure crisis has taken a turn in California’s wealthy Marin County, according to Miriam Alex-Lute at Rooflines. Marin residents waged a legal fight a

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami (Pic via Facebook) Add the Christian Family Coalition to the list of organizations attacking Miami GOP Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for her decision to support the Respect for Marriage Act. In a release, the Christian Family Coalition writes that “Florida Rep.

It’s really the last sentence of the two-paragraph joint statement emerging from national security adviser Jim Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta’s visit to

Roll Call breaks the story: The House ethics committee has drafted rules that for the first time would define gay married couples as “spouses” for the

The old rule was that we were always shocked by what fascinated us the most. While big British scandals were about sex, big American scandals were about

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