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Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has been a champion in the post-9/11 era of the need to balance tough national security measures against concerns for civil liberties and privacy protections

In some corners, the anger over the AIG bonuses has turned into mindless populism that serves no purpose. That’s the viewpoint of The Washington Post, which

At least 200 people — men and women, young and old, white, black, Latino, married couples and singles — met in downtown Fort Lauderdale on Saturday evening in the first Occupy Fort Lauderdale general assembly , to voice their ideas and hopes as well as frustration and anger with corporate greed and the two-party system. Occupy Fort Lauderdale followed a very simple format: In order to have people meet and socialize, they were asked to come up front and tell their story. One meeting coordinator said, “You have grievances with the system right now; we want to hear from as many people as possible so we can make a decision on how to move forward.” Then he read the “Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.” “The big thing that we can focus on are issues of economic class,” Evan Rowe, another meeting coordinator, said

UPDATE: The survey is here. Kathie Durbin reports on the 2009 Future of American Health Survey sent out by the Republican National Committee. It’s this

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So reports Mike Allen. I’m not really sure how many minds this will actually change. Will’s never been much of a hawk, though he does represent something of a

The embattled Republican candidate in the NY-23 special election buckles and signs the Americans for Tax Reform pledge never to support a tax increase. How does

Peter Baker has the skinny on the hiring of James Glassman, former editor of Roll Call, former publisher of the New Republic, to run the George W. Bush

If you missed it, the roll call vote on Cass Sunstein’s nomination to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is up here. All but six Republicans

This post has been corrected. Previously, the post was incorrectly based on an earlier version of the bill. The Military Commissions Act amendments to the

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) wanted to know why Gen. Stanley McChrystal was giving speeches in London -- a speech seen as detrimental and even divisive -- and 60

Ben Wetmore, the 28-year-old conservative activist whom James O’Keefe called a mentor, has stayed out of the headlines since it was revealed that he housed

BOSTON -- A surprising discovery at yesterday’s People’s Rally in Worcester was just how many people had traveled into the state to assist, in whatever way,

Damian Paletta at The Wall Street Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is likely to file cloture on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.)

Patrick Thibodeau of ComputerWorld reports that one result of the administration’s crackdown on employers using H-1B (non-immigrant skilled worker) visas is

If we are successful, what does that mean to the bringing home of troops? asked Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) during today’s Senate Armed Services Committee

Most campaign finance reform advocates are calling for greater restrictions -- or at least stricter disclosure requirements -- on donations from outside groups

Michael Zak, the historian who wrote the biographies of famous black Republicans on the GOP’s Heroes page, has an op-ed at Big Government comparing ACORN’s

While Planned Parenthood of Indiana lost its injunction Wednesday against a brand-new Indiana law -- signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels on Tuesday -- that strips

The Teapot Party has retracted its endorsement of of Gary Johnson for president in 2012. The political party, founded by country legend and marijuana legalization advocate Willie Nelson, explained the confusion surrounding the endorsement on the party’s blog

At his oil spill hearing today, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) questioned Obama administration officials about their testing of Gulf seafood. Markey, the House