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I wrote before the recess that it appeared likely that the DISCLOSE Act wasn’t dead yet, but now it’s official: Senate Dems plan to bring it up for another vote

Mark Halperin is really pushing Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) comment that he wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the

Neighborhood watch to fight global terrorism is just one of Palin’s ideas.

Catholics across the country are criticizing a Maine diocese for having solicited monetary contributions for the Maine ballot fight, punished organizations that opposed its stance on gay marriage, and for having politicized churchgoers’ charitable giving.

So reports The Washington Post. What’s that mean exactly? There are periods when an enemy does well and seems better trained and fights harder, one senior

Anti-Employee Free Choice Act movement glad to see current form of labor bill killed in the Senate.

Continuing with the newest Afghanistan metric, President Hamid Karzai’s whining has intensified, this time to the point where he follows up an attempt to walk

Federal appeals court hears appeal from a Swiss professor of Muslim studies, who claims his visa was revoked on unconstitutional grounds.

Latino workers and families in the U.S. are among the largest beneficiaries of federally funded health insurance, but depending on the outcome of the current budget debate, they could end up losing that access. # Alvaro Garcia is a documented immigrant with a college degree who cannot afford to get ill, and he has a previous heart condition that fortunately has not bothered him in the last few years.

PBS’ Margaret Warner is in Afghanistan and interviewed President Hamid Karzai for last night’s edition of the NewsHour. The interview showed a disjointed

Adam Smith reports out the not-so-secret rumor that the Club for Growth wants to endorse Marco Rubio in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Florida. David Keating,

Even with public anger at banks reaching new levels, Rep. Barney Frank can’t ignore the powerful finance industry.

On Friday I wrote a story about how increased media attention was shedding some unflattering light on Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party candidate for the GOP

With the financial crisis deepening, the FHA must be revitalized immediately -- and there’s no Plan B.

The American Civil Liberties Union has just released a video of interviews with five former Guantanamo detainees, talking about their experiences of abuse in

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Pic by Fibonacci Blue, via Wikimedia Commons) Though all of the current Republican presidential hopefuls have touted their pro-life stances in recent months, perhaps none have been as vocal as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. During an Iowa campaign stop yesterday, Bachmann took a tour of the Informed Choices Medical Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center founded by Pastor Brad Sherman in 2007.

I’ve been writing for weeks now that President Obama’s approach to Af-Pak is a counterinsurgency strategy to meet a counterterrorism objective. And -- just

A few weeks ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, gave conservatives a flicker of hope for a high-profile