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I got a little friendly fire from my friend and colleague Matt Welch over last week’s article on the Obama birth certificate conspiracy. He took issue with my

And we’re off. One thing I didn’t anticipate in my preview of CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing is a question about his speaking fees.

Pat Robertson, the host of the 700 Club and a former Republican candidate for president, has added his voice to a growing chorus calling for the decriminalization of marijuana, reports the news site The Raw Story. In an episode of his widely watched show that focused on prison ministries, Robertson had this to say about the war on drugs, and marijuana specifically: “We’re locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they’ve got 10 years with mandatory sentences,” Robertson continued. “These judges just say, they throw up their hands and say nothing we can do with these mandatory sentences.

The governor of Minnesota took to the Laura Ingraham Show -- which has quietly become a place for Republicans to dish out red meat and make news -- to attack

I note without (much) comment the participants on today’s conference call with Internet national security writers and Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Gen.

It’s a done deal. A special committee in Florida has decided that the state’s presidential primary will be held on Jan. 31, 2012 — a violation of the national nomination calendar and a sure bet that Iowans will caucus earlier than Feb.

Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn said Wednesday Iowa’s famed caucuses aren’t tilting toward the conservative right, in spite of suggestions that the first-in-the-nation event could fall by the wayside if Republican candidates feel as though they must cater to extreme ideology agendas.

In the final stretch of the Massachusetts special election for Senate, Republican candidate Scott Brown has focused on restoring balance to Washington. He’ll

On Thursday night’s “ Stossel Show ,” which airs on the Fox Business channel,

It’s supposed to be Sen. John McCain’s week, but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) keeps trying to grab some of the spotlight. With math. The DNC

According to a press release from Personhood USA issued today, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have appealed to the state Supreme Court in their challenge to Mississippi’s controversial Personhood Amendment. # Personhood USA is calling this decision “conspicuous” because both the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have not sought legal action against the numerous “fetal pain” bills making their way through state legislatures

The former Speaker of the House caught a break between Fox News Sunday interviews to travel to China with his wife Callista. The ensuing photo essay is a

The federal government changed a federal regulation (PDF) originally implemented in December 2008 to allow health workers to refuse to provide care in cases

Conservative activists and Republican politicians have, thus far in the Obama presidency, largely escaped the negative attention generated by the movement’s fringes.

I’ve written in the past about the evolution of the anti-jihadist blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and

Joe DiVincenzo styles himself affectionately as Joe D, the Essex County executive who has happily given bipartisan credence to New Jersey Republican Gov.

Early on the evening of July 9, a former Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter found herself standing outside the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in midtown New

The Pentagon’s report yesterday that the conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp meet all the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, was, not

A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds fewer Republicans (16 percent, down from 33 percent last September) and Americans overall (14 percent, down from 23 percent) describing themselves as “angry” with the federal government. # A growing number say they’re “frustrated.” Other options — “basically content” and “don’t know” — remain statistically unchanged

With a potential crackdown looming, President Obama tells CBS (via Nico Pitney): And I’m very concerned based on some of the tenor -- and tone of the