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A long-awaited report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into the failed bombing attempt aboard Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Adam Serwer at The American Prospect tears through a weekend dump of torture documents and finds something disturbing in an FBI inspector general’s report about

The New York Times editorial board came out swinging in a Sunday editorial on climate change, slamming Republican Senate candidates for questioning whether

The Occupy Wall Street movement that started in New York and spread to large cities across the country is branching out to smaller towns in Minnesota, with protests happening or being planned in Brainerd, Rochester and Duluth. More than 50 people gathered in front of Brainerd City Hall, holding signs reading “America’s middle class: too big to fail” and “tax Wall Street,” according to the Brainerd Dispatch . Josh Brewster of Brainerd was holding a sign that read “Tax the richest 2 percent.” He said he attended the demonstration because he wants a future for his children.

Steve Benen flags some disturbing news out of South Carolina: South Carolina’s more than 236,000 unemployed workers could have to take a drug test in order to

Not all students have the means or good fortune of attending a four-year institution. To that end, community colleges are a place of learning ideal for individuals on tight budgets in search of more academic opportunities. The Obama administration is continuing its pledge to reach out to these higher education institutions in New Mexico with a $2 million grant to three community colleges to focus on green jobs training as part of the the State Energy Sector Partnership Program (SESP), a three year, six-million dollar bundle of funds established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich today announced campaign chairs and co-chairs for all of Florida’s 67 counties. The Miami Herald reports that GOP state Reps. Michael Bileca and Carlos Trujillo will chair and co-chair (respectively) Gingrich’s campaign committee in Miami-Dade County, and Rep

Gov. Terry Branstad indicated he wants to be a “good host” during the 2012 GOP presidential contest and, therefore, is unlikely to endorse a candidate in the lead-up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses. “I have not ruled out the possibility, but I think it’s probably still unlikely that I’m going to endorse,” Branstad told Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics .

Republican Senate candidate Greg Sowards told Politico Tuesday that no candidate in the Republican primary would be further to the right than he is. Sowards also said he didn’t believe that Rep.

Reid Wilson breaks the news: Allison Meyers, director of the RNC’s Young Eagles program, was terminated yesterday after reports that the RNC reimbursed a

Within hours of each other on Tuesday, four anti-abortion news websites posted information on a recently-released Australian report claiming that medical abortions are “ less safe than surgery .” Previous research conducted in the U.S. contradicts the survey’s findings

The feds say states and counties have no choice in whether to participate in Secure Communities , but increasingly states and counties are saying otherwise. This week, the California Assembly voted to restrict the sharing of fingerprints to those of undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes

I’m heading home now, but the NACA people tell me they’ll be here again until midnight. People who have been waiting all day in various lines look tired and

The House GOP sent a message to reporters this morning linking to this article about the possibility of a 30,000-troop surge in Afghanistan, an effort that will

Justice may be blind, but it sure ain’t quick. Forty-six months after federal agents found $90,000 of aluminum-wrapped cash in his freezer, and thirty-seven

The gay and lesbian community are one step closer to being able to participate in state sanctioned unions after the Colorado Senate voted to pass on second reading SB 172. While Democrats heralded the bill as a historic moment in the fight for civil rights and the protection of children, many Republicans voted against the bill, saying it would weaken the institution of marriage

Huckabee is a Christian socialist. He’s got a good heart and all that, but he’s wrong on the important issues, said Richard Viguerie, a longtime conservative strategist. He’s coming at them from a Christian perspective, trying to do the humanitarian thing, and it comes back to bite him.

Progressive activist Adam Green confronts Griff Jenkins — a Fox News color reporter who’s often assigned to cover left-leaning events in a goofy manner.

From a paragraph deep in this New York Times piece based on talks with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: Aides said General

I hadn’t paid much attention to the shrinking role of James Dobson at Focus on the Family -- he’d been on the way out for a while -- but TPM’s follow-up with

From Peter Baker’s New York Times Magazine overview of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism: Most of those , of course, were in the moderate camp

Jonathan Rauch -- one of the few libertarian/conservatives, like Bruce Bartlett and David Frum, who has remained more hopeful than partisan in the Obama era --