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Aaron just hit this from the angle of climate change. I found Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) op-ed interesting because, as recently as March, he was attacking the

Tonight’s Afghanistan strategy rollout comes at a tense moment for congressional Democrats. President Obama will announce an escalation of U.S. forces, an

Of all the talking points emerging from the conservative side about the 9/11 trials, the prospect of attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed getting set free in

The national security adviser didn’t say anything new during his afternoon talk to the Center for American Progress about reconciliation with the Taliban. Jim

Reminiscent of New York Rep. Peter King’s recent Homeland Security Committee hearing investigating radical Islam in the Muslim-American community, Friday’s

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a man with a chronic disease that he opposes his right to use medical marijuana to help with his condition. In a video posted on YouTube, a patient with Muscular Dystrophy asks Romney if he would “arrest me and my doctors” if his physicians prescribed medical marijuana.

The Obama administration says it has stepped up immigration enforcement at workplaces through quiet audits of company personnel paperwork to catch a record

The Republicans may have the wolf-hunting vote locked down, but the Obama campaign is burnishing its own frontier credentials with a new video from the fish

The New York Times has written a good profile of the group FreedomWorks, the most successful organizing force in building the Tea Party movement. Like Americans

After prominent Obama administration officials publicly praise the ministers of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Rural Rehabilitation and Development, all of

David Hart has the scoop: The National Organization for Marriage spent more than $100,000 on get-out-the-vote efforts for the failed (yes, really) campaign of

When the dust settles after election day, what will the new House Republican caucus look like? The Wall Street Journal reports that while the campaign trail

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA—Candi Schmieder doesn’t know what more she can do. She had witnessed first-hand the ascendancy of Sen. Barack Obama, the nice young

From The Minnesota Independent: Things are heating up in the race to unseat 6th District Rep. Michele Bachmann : Democrat Maureen Reed raised $230,000 in the

Last week, Sarah Palin made a strange comment defending Israeli settlement construction by warning that more and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel

When I wrote my earlier post about the group of illustrious Americans urging the Obama administration to close Guantanamo and bring suspected terrorists to

As hard as the Senate debate promises to be, many of the thorniest conflicts will likely be re-contested when Democratic leaders in both chambers meet to iron out the differences between their bills.

The battle over Texas’ newest Congressional district map goes live Tuesday in a San Antonio courtroom, following months of challenges by civil rights groups and

Continuing today’s unexpected surge of birther news, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)--the freshman Republican who has introduced legislation that would demand proof