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In response to two lawsuits, one of which was brought by the U.S. Justice Department, a federal judge has blocked parts of the Alabama immigration enforcement

Newt Gingrich’s first week as an official 2012 presidential candidate has skated past horrible and become impressive. Who could have guessed it would be Gingrich’s campaign launch that would be the big flopper given the field of failed, fringe and untested GOP candidates he has joined. Gingrich Spokesman Rick Tyler evidently decided against pretending he wasn’t aboard a ship sailing rudderless into bizzaro-land and sent out a statement on the events of the week that fittingly strikes the paranoid machine-gun meltdown style adopted by America’s favorite celebrity disaster, Charlie Sheen

Public Policy Polling this week released survey results that showed likely 2012 voters in Colorado mostly held congressional Republicans to blame for the unpopular debt deal reached in Washington and that they so far strongly preferred President Obama to any likely Republican rival.

I’ve been focusing intently on the jobs situation and unemployment extension bill this week, but here’s a roundup of the need-to-know news on the Wall Street or

Noah Shachtman gets a look at it in his sprawling profile of Andrew Breitbart. The scene, from a meet-up between O’Keefe and Breitbart that Shachtman

Just released from Rep. Ellen Tauscher’s (D-Calif.) office: “For the past 13 years, I have had the honor and privilege of serving you in Congress.

Shira Toeplitz reports on the ego boost that Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts has given to Republican candidates and strategists. So far it’s been enough

Rod Dreher comes at us with an actual fresh look at the Right in exile. Not whining, not paeans to President Ronald Reagan’s tailor. And not slavering over

Speaking of. According to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund’s blog: We expect the Department of Defense to announce at the Senate Armed Services

For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for

Though the story dates back to the fall of 2009, the nation is beginning to take notice of the Wake County School Board and its attempts to end the district’s

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

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