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In an August 2001 speech given during a border summit, Gov. Rick Perry delivered a stirring endorsement of a law that passed through the Texas Legislature

Flickr: EAWB Popular candidates like Gen. Wes Clark and Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) were famously recruited into politics by volunteer-driven

One of ten Democrats chosen by a Karl Rove-affiliated national conservative group as a target for a $1.4 million ad buy is U.S.

The Senate Armed Services Committee just announced a hearing next Tuesday morning to get a status update on Afghanistan war strategy. Testifying will be two of

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At all curious how much money goes into running a whole school, or dozens of schools broken down by type, like charter, middle school and high

At 3:30 ET today, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board is expected to declare Al Franken the winner of his U.S. Senate race against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm

The Detroit News on Friday published a commentary by Jay Ambrose of the Scripps Howard News Service about hydrofracking that contained a couple of easily falsified claims. Addressing the issue of contamination by fracking liquids he writes: For that to happen, as you can learn from several articles, much-diluted chemicals used in tiny amounts would have to rise thousands of feet and pass through solid rock without the benefit of fracking to reach the aquifers above.

<p>Without much notice, something strange has happened to the intelligence community during the second term of President George W. Bush. The leaders of

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After last month’s marathon Afghanistan-Pakistan Congressional hearings with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, I noted an unanswered

One of the major tenets of the Bush administration’s border security plan was the Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet, a system of high-tech radars,

An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s controversial New York City billboard has been taken down, according to reports from various media outlets. Heroic Media

Of the many reasons to oppose health care reform, this is probably the worst. From today’s Washington Post: Former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich said

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Walking through Sen. Barack Obama’s national headquarters last night, it was striking to see how quiet things were on election eve. The

Republicans have spent the better part of the last year and a half railing against a government stimulus package they often blame for crowding out more jobs

The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s national trade organization, criticized the Obama administration today -- and the Environmental

Marc Ambinder reports that -- surprise! -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not going to be doing any media interviews in the near future: A senior McCain campaign

The American Airlines logo (Pic via planebuzz.com ) AMR Corporation — the parent company of American Airlines, which provides a large number of South Florida jobs — filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 today. According to The Miami Herald : Unable to cut costs enough to fend off creditors, American and its parent company, AMR Corp., filed for Chapter 11 protection Tuesday morning while it tries to lower its debt and reorganize its business. American is one of the five largest private employers in Miami-Dade County, with about 9,000 workers.

Federal regulators performing a blitz of safety inspections on unsafe mines last month temporarily closed down six operations in Kentucky over safety

I emailed Michael Ledeen, the neoconservative scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for comment on President Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel