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His political career looked dead after his humiliating 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor of Georgia -- he lost the primary by 14 points, dogged by his ties

Two weeks after a deadline for local police departments to count their untested rape kits and report back to the state, fewer than five percent of the agencies

In case there were any lingering doubts as to just how Kafkaesque the U.S. detention policy for Guantanamo Bay prisoners has become, the latest chapter in the

An op-ed printed in The New York Times yesterday raised questions about the ethics of requiring doctors to advise minors to inform their parents of their medical care. # Perri Klass, a doctor, wrote that right and wrong is not “clear-cut” when forcing parental involvement in medical cases that involve “sensitive needs as contraception, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and mental health.” # Klass writes about his experience advising a young woman to tell her parents that she had contracted a sexually transmitted infection: ”So against her better judgment, she told her parents her diagnosis. Her father’s reaction was to inform her that once she got out of the hospital, she was no longer welcome to return home.” # He says that “juggling parental concern with an adolescent patient’s legal and ethical right to privacy opens up some tricky questions”: # Clinics for adolescents are keenly conscious that the promise of confidential care is essential to gain and hold their young patients’ trust.

Ben Smith has a rose-colored look at a possible Senate run in New York by Mort Zuckerman, the 72-year-old media mogul and pundit who seems interested in Sen.

In February, as the law authorizing the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless wiretapping program was set to lapse, House Democrats brushed aside

In state legislatures across the country, 916 measures were introduced through March 31 that in some way restricted abortion rights, according to the Guttmacher

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” -- George Bernard Shaw At The Minnesota Independent, TWI’s sister

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an

In July, single-payer health care advocates won a prominent victory when the House Education and Labor Committee approved legislation empowering states to adopt

In the wake of the contested election and the surging rallies against Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs who rule Iran, prominent Republicans in the House and other conservatives want the president to make a firm statement.

Speaking this morning at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s fiscal summit, former President Bill Clinton forcefully argued that immigration reform is crucial to

With conservatives screaming from the rafters about the elimination of a business tax deduction for retiree benefits in the Democrats’ health reform law, The

Remember when the McCain campaign got all bent out of shape because CNN’s big, bad Campbell Brown beat up on campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for not being able

OK, one more Pentagon budget chart. This should give a sense of the Pentagon budget in a broader context. Even through the Bush years, there ran a critique

A natural gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, Calif., Sept. 9. (Flickr, Thomas Hawk)

DES MOINES — Sheriff’s Office officials in Decatur County are still mum on suspects in a home invasion that happened Saturday night at U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell ’s (D-Iowa) farm, but the Sheriff said law enforcement has a “direction we’re heading in.” The attack happened around 10:30 p.m., as Boswell was getting ready for bed.

State Sen. Alan Hayes, R-Umatilla (Pic by Senator Hays, via flsenate.gov) Florida Reps. Luis Garcia , D-Miami, and Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, today sharply criticized comments made by state Sen. Alan Hays , R-Umatilla, about Florida Hispanics on Tuesday. In a letter, Garcia writes: “It is with great disappointment that I write to you regarding the recent public remarks made at the Senate Redistricting Committee Meeting concerning Florida’s Hispanic community.” The Miami Herald reports that Hays said during Tuesday’s reapportionment committee meeting: Before we design a district anywhere in the state of Florida for Hispanic voters, we need to ascertain that they are citizens of the United States