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Anti-Employee Free Choice Act movement glad to see current form of labor bill killed in the Senate.

Continuing with the newest Afghanistan metric, President Hamid Karzai’s whining has intensified, this time to the point where he follows up an attempt to walk

Federal appeals court hears appeal from a Swiss professor of Muslim studies, who claims his visa was revoked on unconstitutional grounds.

Thanks to my new Twitter friend dangerpest for the tip-off to this, the most intense explanation yet for the conspiracy to make Barack Obama

A lawsuit filed against Texas’ mandatory pre-abortion sonogram bill saw its first hearing at a U.S. District Court in Austin on Wednesday. Lawyers for the

Latino workers and families in the U.S. are among the largest beneficiaries of federally funded health insurance, but depending on the outcome of the current budget debate, they could end up losing that access. # Alvaro Garcia is a documented immigrant with a college degree who cannot afford to get ill, and he has a previous heart condition that fortunately has not bothered him in the last few years.

Here’s Sharon Burke, vice president of Center for a New American Security, who just got effusive praise from former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), and who’s

PBS’ Margaret Warner is in Afghanistan and interviewed President Hamid Karzai for last night’s edition of the NewsHour. The interview showed a disjointed

Adam Smith reports out the not-so-secret rumor that the Club for Growth wants to endorse Marco Rubio in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Florida. David Keating,

Even with public anger at banks reaching new levels, Rep. Barney Frank can’t ignore the powerful finance industry.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, says he has “confidence” in Committee Finance Chairman Vern Buchanan, despite a U.S

On Friday I wrote a story about how increased media attention was shedding some unflattering light on Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party candidate for the GOP

With the financial crisis deepening, the FHA must be revitalized immediately -- and there’s no Plan B.

The American Civil Liberties Union has just released a video of interviews with five former Guantanamo detainees, talking about their experiences of abuse in

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Pic by Fibonacci Blue, via Wikimedia Commons) Though all of the current Republican presidential hopefuls have touted their pro-life stances in recent months, perhaps none have been as vocal as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. During an Iowa campaign stop yesterday, Bachmann took a tour of the Informed Choices Medical Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center founded by Pastor Brad Sherman in 2007.

I’ve been writing for weeks now that President Obama’s approach to Af-Pak is a counterinsurgency strategy to meet a counterterrorism objective. And -- just

Here I was, reading through the transcript of yesterday’s White House briefing on swine flu, thinking Why is John Brennan, the senior White House adviser for

A few weeks ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, gave conservatives a flicker of hope for a high-profile