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Why has MSNBC embedded one of its top on-air talents with Sarah Palin’s book tour? That’s a good question, but I thought Norah O’Donnell’s grilling of a young

Praising an Italian court’s recent ruling that CIA agents broke the law in an extraordinary rendition case, The New York Times today highlights a growing

Ohio voters went to the polls yesterday for the first day of early voting, exercising a right in Ohio that the state’s Republicans had fought hard to

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) asked why the Taliban won’t simply reconstitute itself in the parts of Afghanistan that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s population-security

Never letting a good blunder go to waste, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), pounced on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s botched Northwest Airlines

Conservative activist David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend, a pricey four-day Palm Beach celebration of conservative ideas, just wrapped up. I wasn’t there, but

An alleged admission by a 51-year-old Comstock Park, Mich., man that he attempted to infect hundreds of people with HIV through unprotected sexual activity and

There are two ways to read this quote that Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) gave to Josh Rogin: The troop numbers are only one piece of a much larger set of policy

One watchdog says the strange giving patterns just shows the financial industry isn’t sure what’s happening to itself.

The Republican National Committee’s e-cards for Valentine’s Day -- a cute gimmick that the parties have been doing more of -- includes a reminder that, no

The BBC reports that it’s confirmed with the International Committee of the Red Cross that U.S. military officials in Afghanistan have notified it of a

A month ago, House leaders were forced into a corner by conservative Democrats insisting that health reform legislation include language prohibiting abortion

The Sacramento County Republican Party just took down inflammatory material from its website that urged readers to waterboard Barack Obama and stated that

The Florida Medical Association has responded to a letter sent by state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, encouraging state medical groups to use a newly implemented prescription drug monitoring database (aka E-FORCSE).

A federal judge, adjudicating a dispute between the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and the Maine Ethics Commission, upheld the vast majority of the

Tulsa World, the daily newspaper of Oklahoma’s second-largest city is criticizing the state’s senior senator for creating some confusion about whether he thinks

There’s no official count available on the current number of active immigration PACs, but according to TWI research, there are at least eight immigration PACs

Kate’s last post about Eric Holder brings up something that struck me kind of funny, as Bruce Springsteen would say. Notwithstanding Holder’s language about

Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was

Opponents of Rand Paul, the frontrunner in Kentucky’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate, are pretty effectively spinning his press release announcing the endorsement

Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released a new monthly scorecard on the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP -- the Obama