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The New York Times’ Sunday lead editorial is devoted to how the new Obama administration can and should close down Guantanamo Bay shortly after Barack Obama

Gov. Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality over the weekend, claiming it’s a policy states have the right

The trendy way to influence elections this cycle is through independent expenditure committees, and as I wrote yesterday, these committees are, in most

Colin Clark at DOD Buzz is hearing that the latest version of the White House-Pentagon back-and-forth over major defense platforms caps the F-22 fighter jet at

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Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, just released the following statement: Recently disclosed legal memoranda from the former

Matthew Yglesias and Jon Henke argue over whether the anti-spending Tea Party protests are astroturf — fake grassroots — because groups like

Ken Keen, a three-star Army general, was in Haiti on Tuesday at the U.S. ambassador’s office shortly before nightfall when the quake began. The ambassador’s

Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park (Pic via Facebook) Think Progress is reporting that just months after playing a lead role in the temporary shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Rep

This is a change in personnel, President Obama said, announcing Gen. David Petraeus’ takeover of the Afghanistan war, but not a change in policy. Yes and no.

Yesterday, Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) accused banking giant JPMorgan Chase of violating a confidentiality agreement with one its customers, Susan Wones, who had

The Occupy Wall Street protests that started in New York and have now spread to cities including Chicago, Boston and San Francisco (and coming soon to Texas),

The Democratic and Republican leadership elections are finally upon us, and it seems that most of the drama and uncertainty has already worked itself out well

In a startling new Pew survey, more than half of households say that within the past year a member of the household has been out of work -- up 15 percentage

The Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition (MFFC) is lending its voice to the battle over a constitutional amendment limiting marriage between a man and a woman in Minnesota.

This revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s new book, nabbed by Paul Bedard, might shed some light on why Ridge passed on a 2010 U.S.

UPDATE: Steele deviated a bit from his prepared remarks, and I’ve changed the text to reflect that. In his speech to Republican National Committee state

Hmm, so it appears that Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special envoy to Af-Pak, is going to be the first administration figure to explore the

An Amherst Special Town Meeting approved a resolution last night welcoming one or two cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees to Amherst, Mass. -- once Congress agrees

In an interesting chain of events last week, “uterus” became a four-letter word on the Florida House floor. A group of pro-uterus insurrectionists have now leaped to the defense of the now-defenseless “uterus” via the Internet