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Conservatives who attended a town hall meeting with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) have uploaded video of her being peppered with questions, including this

This makes it much, much harder for the administration to move forward with the closure of Guantanamo, said Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

DENVER— If winning the Democratic nomination for U.S Senate in Colorado comes down to who seems more passionate on the stump, challenger Andrew Romanoff will

A new report from the Friends of the Earth paints a terrible picture of the business practices of TransCanada, the company seeking to build a pipeline to carry tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The report is entitled “Dirty Business: How TransCanada Pipelines bullies farmers, manipulates oil markets, threatens fresh water and skimps on safety in the United States.” In related news, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council joined Sen. Ron Wyden in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged manipulation of the oil market by TransCanada to boost their profits

Rep. Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will subpoena the New York Federal Reserve for documents related to the

Spencer took on Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for using the inclusion of hate crimes language as a reason to oppose the defense appropriations bill. I’m not

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) called on the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate TransCanada and their Keystone XL pipeline project over allegations that the company was conspiring with other tar sands oil companies to manipulate oil prices in the United States. In a letter to FTC Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz, Wyden cited testimony before Congress from an industry analyst representing the oil companies where he appears to agree that the pipeline will raise oil prices in the Midwest by bypassing the refineries in the Great Lakes region.

What will the Iranian presidential election mean for the United States? Four possible scenarios. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) makes a rational, measured

First appeared October 6, 2008 Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain’s brother referred to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria as

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) On Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on Al Punto , a Spanish-language TV news show, saying he doesn’t need a different message for Hispanic voters. Paul said he does not want to remove all 11 million undocumented immigrants, but insisted “we must have secure borders and we must not reward people for breaking the law.” “I don’t think people should come here and esaily become citizens who can vote and receive social benefits,” Paul said, but he added there must be a program to allow “people who want to work to come.” Paul said there should an assimilation program, but borders remain important and that citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants should not automatic.

Bipartisan opposition sprang up today during a Florida Senate debate over a bill that requires clinics to offer ultrasounds to women seeking abortions. The measure previously mandated that all women view an ultrasound before an abortion, but was tweaked recently to allow patients to opt out by signing a form.

Laura Rozen has a good post on some Harvard war games about new unilateral sanctions on Iran ultimately proving counterproductive to getting the Iranian regime

An average of 1,200 people are questioned by private security at Bloomington’s Mall of America each year, with security sometimes forwarding names to the FBI for such innocuous activity as taking photos or acting nervous after being approached by guards. The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and NPR News Investigations released a report on the private mall’s security program Wednesday, illuminating practices that some said violates civil rights

Bill Kristol has a post up at The Weekly Standard’s blog about what conservatives ought to do about President Obama and Iran: There have been very good grounds

With Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, Sen. John McCain just brought up the infamous Bridge to Nowhere for the first time in quite a while at a town-hall

Just hours after President Obama reiterated his plans for overhauling the nation’s health care system to trim costs and cover the 46 million people estimated to

According to Catholics for Choice, a religious pro-reproductive rights group, the leader of Priests for Life, Frank Pavone, “has been suspended from engaging in active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, as a result of concerns about financial improprieties.” Pavone has been a prominent figure in the anti-abortion movement.

Chock full of LOLs is the latest offering from Ralph Peters, a troglodytic New York Post columnist who manages to be wrong about everything. This time, he

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asked President George W. Bush last month to pardon her former counterpart in the U.S.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson will be allowed to participate in Thursday’s Fox News debate in Orlando, Fla., among Republican presidential candidates, The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz reports : The former New Mexico governor won the right to participate, according to Fox sources, by cracking 1 percent in the latest five national polls in which he was included—Fox News, CNN, McClatchy-Marist, ABC, and Quinnipiac—which was the criterion the network had set for inclusion. Talking Points Memo reports Johnson has yet to receive final notification that he will participate in the debate, though he told TPM, “It would be good news if we get it.” Johnson is a self-identified libertarian who differentiates himself from Rep.

According to the May 30. 2005 Bradbury memo, the CIA has used “enhanced techniques to varying degrees in the interrogations of 28 detainees. The CIA

A new report has renewed the call among gun-control advocates for tighter firearms laws, but such reforms face tough opposition from the powerful gun lobby and its congressional supporters.