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As The American Independent has reported, Texas’ six-year-old Alternatives to Abortion program has consistently received increases in state funding, while

For all the wonks out there: President Obama said today that he plans to nominate Jacob Lew, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, to

I haven’t written anything about Chas Freeman, the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia whom Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair tapped to head the

Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware will be announced today as Barack Obama’s vice presidential nominee. Obama sent word of the selection of Biden, a six-term

Although the Obama administration’s much-anticipated new policy on the use of the so-called state secrets privilege, announced this morning, has drawn some praise, civil liberties lawyers and other critics of the use of the privilege don’t think it solves the problem.

Justin Elliot has the video and story behind LivePrayer.com’s infomercial Where Was President Obama Born? Besides being a forum for prayer requests,

In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today, a coalition of renewable energy industry groups, environmentalists and labor unions called

After months of dismal news coming out of Wall Street, a few rays of light have shown through in recent days. Last week, Wells Fargo announced a $3 billion

After the rescue of Maersk Alabama captain Richard Phillips, some Somali pirates issued a predictable amount of bluster about reprisals. (Every country will be

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), who’s become something of an icon to the Tea Party movement with his unapologetic defenses of the 10th Amendment and states

House leaders may cancel today’s vote on a 9/11 health care bill to prevent a Republican-led effort to block treatment for illegal immigrants who worked at

Here’s a really smart Manu Raju piece on how Republicans, who were completely on message mere weeks ago with anti-Nancy Pelosi and anti-Gitmo closing campaigns,

Power, a journalist covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s, wrote the 2002 groundbreaking book on U.S. indifference to genocide, A Problem From Hell, before

Yesterday, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a surprising victory to state Republicans by requiring Ohio election officials to check all new

Florida governor Charlie Crist, who’s running for Senate as an independent, said Social Security could remain solvent longer if more immigrants were able to

Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post reports that all of that whole-of-government stuff coming from the Obama administration about (among other things)

Monica Conyers, wife of Rep. John Conyers, the 23-term Michigan Democrat who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, announced her resignation from Detroit’s City

Bloomberg takes a hard look at the lobbying fight over financial regulatory overhaul and concludes that despite last week’s passage of a financial regulatory

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – This is by far the darkest FOB I’ve ever been on. By 7 p.m., it’s pitch black out here, and to leave a