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Nezar Hamze, a registered Republican and the executive director of the South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, tells The Florida Independent that accusations tying his organization to Muslim terrorists are ridiculous. The United West, an anti-Islamic organization led by Tom Tentro, will host an event in Tallahassee on the first day of Florida’s 2012 legislative session to honor members of the U.S. military who served in Iraq

Prompted by skepticism from Blackfive, Adam Serwer at TAPPED gets Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman to clarify President Obama’s role in yesterday’s rescue of

Pentagon chief Bob Gates and the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. James Cartwright, held a conference call to talk about their defense budget

A poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University shows President Obama making slight gains to pull himself from negative territory. In an earlier poll on Oct.

Obama unveils a new Darfur strategy, but human rights groups aren’t satisfied. The man who sent an Obama death threat had already been warned by the

Apparently, Chris Hill’s testimony this morning didn’t change Sen. Sam Brownback’s (R-Kans.) mind. On the Senate floor just now, Brownback delivered a

Yesterday, when the Campaign Legal Center* filed a complaint with the IRS against the 501(c)(4) group Crossroads GPS, alleging that it was abusing its

Since bailouts are so timely today, Bloomberg weighs in to point out that banks that have been recipients of government bailout money are reacting by charging

For some reason MSNBC just had Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) on to talk about the fringe House Republican demands for Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Here’s a little fuel to the rumors that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is looking at a return to politics, including a possible 2012 run for president. The

The 15 banking CEOs who met with President Obama today in Washington head financial institutions that spent at least $45 million on lobbying in 2008, and gave

Neither chamber takes aim at the underlying fiscal problems of Medicaid, the state-federal partnership that covers the poorest Americans.

A draft report released today by the national oil spill commission provides new details on a much-criticized August assessment by the Obama administration of

A huge airstrike in northern Afghanistan has left at least 80 dead, including some civilians. The strike hit fuel trucks taken by insurgents as civilians were

Speculation about the Ft. Hood shooting suspect’s motivations may be overtaken by events. The Austin American-Statesman: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is awake and

Just a few weeks after Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) requested information from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner about White House plans to sidestep executive pay

The Environmental Protection Agency released today a five-year plan outlining key goals for the agency. Chief among those goals is taking action on climate