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

Human Rights Watch has released a report which alleges the U.S. government’s President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funds are being used by the government of Vietnam to run forced labor camps. The report says that hundreds of thousands of drug addicts have passed through forced treatment facilities in the country, the Associated Press reports

Remember earlier this month, when the White House’s Office of Management and Budget told the Pentagon to cap its forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget at $527 billion,

President Barack Obama ‘s weekly address was filmed at an Illinois farm and leans heavily on his Midwest tour throughout — including a shout-out to the Maquoketa High School girls’ volleyball team — but the overall theme is that it is time for those in Congress to quit playing politics. “e need the folks in Washington — the people whose job it is to deal with the country’s problems, the people you elected to serve — we need them to put aside their differences and get things done,” Obama said.

Rep. Erik Paulsen and former Bush staffer Karl Rove were both showered with glitter at the Midwest Leadership Conference Friday

Eric Kleefeld has the numbers, donations from GOP leadership PACs to the Florida Republican and infamous sponsor of the Birther Bill that is quietly gaining

The Minnesota Independent’s Paul Demko reports: Tim Pawlenty will announce whether he plans to seek a third term as governor this afternoon. The early word:

Anthony Cordesman, a highly respected defense analyst and adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s review of Afghanistan strategy, writes an op-ed that has an

Now that the government has nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it should step in and modify the mortgage loans of troubled borrowers on a massive scale,

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has upheld the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include birth control in a list of preventative services to be covered without co-payments through the Affordable Care Act

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

Tim Pawlenty’s courting of young voters with pop-culture references didn’t go unnoticed by one media icon: Stephen Colbert . At a gathering of Iowa college Republicans Saturday, Pawlenty said Barack Obama won’t keep the youth vote because “he duped the young people in this country.” Dropping references to Charlie Sheen, tiger blood and Lady Gaga, Pawlenty said young people have a “Bad Romance” with Obama. “I gotta say,” Colbert said, “it’s like Pawlenty ripped those references from the headlines, then stored them in a drawer for a couple of months, then re-ripped them from his drawer and put them in a speech

Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the

President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation. The Keystone XL pipeline would carry highly polluting Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada all the way to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Environmental groups argue that the pipeline is unnecessary and a threat to ecosystems in the wake of the million gallon oil spill here in Michigan last July

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

Just days before a United Nations vote to determine the Palestinian right to statehood, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry lambasted