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<p>I thought I&rsquo;d respond to Danny Glover&rsquo;s post on <a href="http://beltwayblogroll.nationaljournal.com/">Beltway

Following up the story of far-right site Newsmax.com taking ads from Massachusetts GOP candidate Scott Brown, there’s this: A friend who’s subscribed to

I think it’s pretty clear that Harry Reid and the Democratic side ... wants illegals counted in the Census, wants illegals in the reapportionment of the

Check out this Bmaz post at Emptywheel about a rumor circulating through Arabic-language media that Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, a member of al-Qaeda who was tortured at

Here’s an interesting tip I just got from American Rights At Work about the Republican’s vociferous opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, based on its

Marc Lynch flags -- and argues with -- an apparent position taken by Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, in favor of taking until the end of

It went largely without notice, but in its last issue (with the Beauty of Drilling cover), National Review’s editors responded to criticism over its Wise

Ben Smith has the details: The White House, I’m told, will today announce that it’s filling the key Pentagon slot for the implementation -- or repeal -- of

Under pressure from the White House, BP has agreed to set aside $20 billion in an escrow fund to compensate victims of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, The

At his short press conference at the Values Voter Summit, Mike Huckabee took an open-ended question about former President Jimmy Carter’s remark that there is

This is just a ... strange question from the new Fox News poll: What does on top mean? I can’t figure it out. Do 65 percent of independents think

Reviews of Obama’s Nobel speech: unusually good, realistically idealistic, academic and verbose, elegiac and strange. Trust between the United States and

Kerry Killinger was the chairman and chief executive officer of Washington Mutual, the $300 billion savings-and-loan organization, from 1990 until 2008. During

The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) temporarily laid off state workers at midnight after the state legislature failed to pass a

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign has filed a class-action lawsuit against state Republicans alleging that the party is hoping to prevent voters who are in the midst

As campaign-finance filings come out from 2012 Republican presidential candidates, the records show women are not big-money donors for this year’s crop of

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has answered the question on the minds of all the people who have lost their unemployment benefits in recent weeks: Senate

The anticipated climate legislation from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will include an upper and lower limit on the price of carbon, a significant change from

A bill to continue a defunct school voucher program in Washington, D.C., passed the U.S. House on Wednesday afternoon by a largely party-line vote