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It seems strange to point out something that’s above the banner on Drudge, but this statement by Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) is sort of unheard of, post-1936. I

Forgive me if I’m going over ground other people have covered, but as I was going through the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel torture memos for something else, I

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) is scheduled to announce his retirement today, according to multiple media outlets. His decision complicates Democratic efforts to

Glenn Reynolds responds: SORRY, STILL NOT SEEING THE ANEURYSM CONNECTION. Weigel’s snark notwithstanding, it was a weak point. Eh, I’ll grant this. As

A little after midnight, nearing the end of yesterday’s marathon health reform debate in the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) had the

First it was Byron Dorgan; now Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) has decided to throw in the towel: Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the embattled Connecticut Democrat who

You may have thought that you had heard the last of him after his appearance on The View, but it looks like Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is back in the news.

That didn’t take long. As a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Steven Chu has been a fierce and consistent critic of coal. He’s on the record last year saying

Yesterday, a report from The Conference Board showed that Americans’ confidence in the economy declined again in July, a result of a sluggish recovery and

One other interesting aspect of that new poll about Afghan public opinion is what the poll found about the prospect of negotiating an end to the conflict with

A U.S.

In a recent story on NPR about the Obama administration’s ramped-up enforcement of the FACE Act, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman says the enforcement is really just a “political tool” to shut down abortion protesters. # Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group that aims to shut down women’s health clinics that provide abortions, has been at the center of anti-abortion activism for quite some time. # NPR reports : # The Obama Justice Department has been taking a more aggressive approach against people who block access to abortion clinics, using a 1994 law to bring cases in greater numbers than its predecessor.

Contrary to the expectations of many of us who’ve been speculating about this for months, it’s looking like President George W. Bush may well leave office

It’s been about two weeks since President Obama officially announced that Chris Hill was his choice to become the next ambassador to Iraq. He’ll have a big job,

Gov.

President-elect Barack Obama’s top appointments shouldn’t be ignored, but here are crucial sub-cabinet jobs critical to the success of his foreign-policy agenda.

Despite a drop in his approval rating, Ensign may have “at least a 50-50 shot.” GOP Senators: Sotomayor fight isn’t winning us political

That’s according to a just-released statement from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: The White House has indicated

Adam Serwer reads through the State Department legal adviser’s recent defense of why drone strikes outside Afghanistan are legal and observes that the rationale

A finger is the latest casualty of the health care battle. Maine finds itself in the health care spotlight. McConnell on Obama’s health care speech:

Among the chief discrepancies between the House and Senate health reform proposals is a provision of the House bill that would allow states to negotiate