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Palin argues for expanded West Bank settlements because Jews will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. She also thinks we should

Bryan Fischer , an analyst for the American Family Association, is well known for controversial statements about LGBT people (“gay sex is a form of domestic terrorism”) and Muslims (inbreeding has caused “lowered intellectual capacity”), false or misleading statements that have landed the AFA on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate groups.” On Thursday, shortly before he interviewed Rep.

I wouldn’t have guessed it, but after looking into the names of 14 people pardoned and another 2 who had their sentences commuted by President George W. Bush

Pelosi fills Kennedy’s shoes on health care. The no’s on the House health bill received one-third more from health insurance interests than the

A key administration official charged with overseeing the country’s offshore drilling pushed back yesterday against allegations that drilling inspectors in the

One more thing from Adm. Mullen’s Joint Forces Quarterly piece. There’s a brief discussion about how the Taliban optimizes the unity of communications and

Exit polls indicate that jobs and the economy were the top issues on the minds of voters on Tuesday when they trotted off to the polls. While climate change and

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly jobs report, which estimated that 80,000 new non-farm jobs were created during October, and

The Senate today voted against the U.S. House of Representatives budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year, 40-57. The House bill was sponsored by Rep. Paul

Three House members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- Reps. John Salazar (D-Colo.), Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) and Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) -- lost their

Is the battle for millions of missing White House emails over? The Washington Post reports that a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the White House’s Office

Interesting fact about the soon-to-be-declassified report from the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility on the propriety of the Bush-era

Despite the National Organization for Marriage declaring preemptive victory Wednesday, the battle over legalizing same-sex marriage wages on in New York, with

In Hillary Clinton’s first major foreign policy address as secretary of state, she made the case for changes in how the Obama administration’s national security agenda will be carried out.

Rachel Maddow had a segment last night about various Republican policies proposed around the country that would have a negative impact on children, including the bill in Michigan that would have required foster children to buy clothing only at second-hand stores. She specifically showed our reporting on that bill at the Michigan Messenger. Here’s the video: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy

Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s administration will not sell five of the state’s prisons as previously intended, the state’s Department of Rehabilitation and

A two-member delegation of Iraqi parliamentarians -- one Sunni and one Shiite -- toured Washington this week with a simple message: withdraw from Iraq. What

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Obama plans to sign an executive order to create a deficit commission. The financial crisis is creating greater inequality of wealth in the United

UPDATE: Aug. 10, 2011, 3:15 p.m., with a correction Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) last week launched a campaign to prevent