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Things aren’t looking good for Deeds and Corzine. Democratic voters seem to be losing enthusiasm. Bill Clinton’s on a solely private mission? Tell it to

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Following a lunchtime recess, Navy Capt. John Murphy asked Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge overseeing Omar Khadr’s military

Jeff Greene sues two Florida papers for costing him his Senate bid. McCain once joked that the Secret Service should shoot out Palin’s tires. ...and

Adam Serwer, fresh from a trip to Guantanamo Bay to see a proceeding in an Obama-era military commission, draws some conclusions about the administration’s

One year ago tomorrow—May 16, 2008—former CIA analyst and current security consultant Larry Johnson put up this blog post at his site No Quarter. I now

Iowa House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer (R-Garner) will seek the seat in House District 54, she said Friday. Linda Upmeyer Upmeyer, the first woman House Majority Leader in Iowa history, said she is moving to Clear Lake, some odd 15 miles from Garner, after redistricting combined Franklin County with areas of Cerro Gordo and Butler counties. Garner is in Hancock County, but Upmeyer said the new House District 54 is made up of many of her current constituents

DAYTON, Ohio -- As our friends in Denver recover from their collective hangover in the wake of Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last night, those of us

Update: The Department of Health and Human Services sent a response after this story was originally posted. The department’s comment has been

Life Always’ latest anti-abortion billboards -- called by some opponents racist for their messages targeted at the African-American communities -- are still

Because some things never change, we offer up a bootleg of the Beatles singing about immigration.

I don’t know what it might be, but I understand there’s going to be a White House background briefing on Guantanamo Bay in about an hour. Newsweek’s Michael

The final Farleigh-Dickinson/PublicMind poll in New Jersey has Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) continuing his slow rise back from oblivion and into contention,

By now, we all know that the federal government is pretty much impotent in the face of the seafloor gusher that’s been spewing unknowable amounts of oil into

The Senate doesn’t work. To score a visit from Obama, live in a swing state and take good care of your backyard. John Boehner backs plan to subpoena

In what has become a consistent thread in Sen. John McCain’s quest for the White House, a few more of Sen. Barack Obama’s celebrity friends -- at least that’s

The Dept. of Labor’s report on new unemployment claims this week put the number at 404,000.

Deeds distances himself from the Democratic leadership. Some House liberals are open to compromise on the public option. Opposition to health care reform

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano whether Attorney General Eric

At Tuesday’s White House press conference with Dana Perino, long-time Washington reporter Helen Thomas, now a columnist with Hearst Newspapers, had a few

Afghanistan optimism: Catch it! “I still will tell you that I believe the situation in Afghanistan is serious,” said the commander, Gen. Stanley A.

Richard Smith at VoteVets corrects some erroneous early reports: 1LT Choi has NOT been ordered back to active duty. It would be difficult to order him back

To contrast with Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) question about American sovereignty, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) swings over to the progressive side by asking