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I’m really fascinated by the rapid rise and apparent fall of Debra Medina, the small-time Republican activist who surged into the mid-20s in her race for the

Twice a year, thousands of machine gun and artillery enthusiasts attend the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.

As reported this morning by the St. Petersburg Times , the state Department of Environmental Protection has slowed down its reconsideration of a controversial landfill permit application in Dade City. # The Times reports that the department has decided to consult with local leaders before a final decision is made.

A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco today rejected the Obama Justice Department’s attempt to continue to conceal evidence of

The man arrested in Philadelphia for a video death threat made against Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) did not limit his activity to the GOP minority whip. At his

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial leading law enforcement officer in Maricopa County, has been delaying a Department of Justice investigation over alleged

Gov. Susana Martinez ordered the Motor Vehicle Department to send out 10,000 letters to the estimated 85,000 foreign nationals who have New Mexico Driver’s Licenses but no Social Security numbers, asking them to to prove they still live in the state.

For more on the Cheneyite right’s intimations that there’s something shameful about providing legal counsel for Guantanamo detainees, see Adam Serwer’s new

I wrote a bit Friday about the, uh, ambition inherent in assigning U.S. trainers to mentor the Pakistani army in counterinsurgency. An excellent and chilling

Remember all that stuff about taking a whole of government approach to national security? The stuff that would get the burden of national security off the

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman (Pic via operationrescue.org) The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue announced today that it is standing behind the leader of Priests for Life, Frank Pavone. Pavone was recently suspended from “engaging in active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, as a result of concerns about financial improprieties.” Troy Newman, Operation Rescue’s president, said the allegations are an “unfounded attack” meant to deter Priests for Life “from their critical life-saving work.” Newman also said in a press release today that he “would expect this kind of slanderous attack from someone at Planned Parenthood or NARAL, but not from a bishop in the Church.” “This is a very sad day for the innocent unborn,” he said. According to the religious abortion rights group Catholics for Choice , Priests for Life had “become a business that is quite lucrative which provides Father Pavone with financial independence from all legitimate ecclesiastical oversight.” Patrick J

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer believes that this early in the process — a time when no state has held a primary or caucus and the general election is 15 months in the future — all candidates with some experience should be included in presidential debates

I ignored the phony (aired on YouTube and nowhere else) Obama birth conspiracy ad that finally got some cult success last week. But I generally keep an eye on

The oh-so-brief conservative push to get fringe cafe owner Tamyra d’Ippolito on the Indiana ballot as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seems to have hit

Digging a bit deeper into the annual White House economic report, released yesterday, there’s this statement about the enormity of the nation’s jobs crisis.

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In wake of news that major Republican donors are funding the push to legalize gay marriage in New York, Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family is touting efforts to “save traditional marriage” there led by the National Organization for Marriage and the New Yorker’s Family Research Foundation. NOM has reportedly raised a million dollars to spend on its anti-gay marriage campaign and Family Research Foundation leader Reverend Jason McGuire is riding around the state on a “Mayday for Marriage” bus tour rallying supporters

Via The Hill, Rep. Steve Buyer will announce today that he won’t seek reelection this year. The nine-term Indiana Republican has been in hot water recently over

According to E!, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) called Miss California Carrie Prejean to buck her up after her gay marriage-driven loss in the Miss USA

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, will host a congressional hearing on the economic impact of the EPA’s proposed water quality standards next week.

Last week, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO, openly advocated a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan during a NATO defense ministerial

GOP complaints aside, there’s a long history of using reconciliation for health care. We don’t want Professor Obama lecturing us at the health care summit,