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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

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 --

Does President Obama really want to make this argument for why he’s flip-flopping on the release of the torture photographs: I want to emphasize that these

A few minutes ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan avoided giving her opinion on the Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively decided the

The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would

During U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s speech at the annual convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis Thursday, she vowed to support and strengthen veterans medical care, but a plan unveiled by Bachmann in January, which she later dropped, proposed to cut $4.5 billion from these same veterans services

While discussing how recent natural phenomenon have ravaged his state and others, U.S. Sen

A colleague points me to a telling paragraph from a New York Times story on the city’s for-profit private schools -- which have profit margins of 20 to 25

The day after voting his nomination out of committee, the full Senate confirmed Leon Panetta last night as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Immigrants rights advocates in Michigan say they are hopeful about reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ended a policy of arbitrarily searching mass transit in the interior of the country.

Today’s news that Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) cut a deal with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to remove the bailout fund -- a $50 billion pool taxed from banks to

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) changed his party affiliation last year from Republican to Democrat ahead of this year’s difficult primary race. Republican Gov.

In light of Georgia’s plans to go through with the execution of Troy Davis at 7:00 p.m. EST tonight, despite the recantation of seven of the nine witnesses that

Rosa Brooks, a senior Pentagon adviser, will lead the office amid growing recognition that local perceptions of the U.S. military play a key battlefield role.

About an hour ago, the NATO command in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, sent out a disturbing release expressing dee regrets for an

The American Association for Justice -- formerly known as the American Trial Lawyers Association -- is gearing up to defend against proposals for tort reform as

Al Jazeera: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its disenchanted brothers in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged

Inspired by the numerous videos that have already been created as a part of the anti-suicide and anti-bullying public awareness campaign “It Gets Better,” federal government employees from the National Parks Service, U.S.