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Abortion battles waged by Texas legislators, U.S. House members, Texas AG

By | 02.18.11 | 11:02 am

While high-profile, politically charged abortion battles are being waged in the Texas Legislature and Congress, the Texas Attorney General quietly issued a pair of legal opinions late Thursday afternoon that could lead to the loss of millions of dollars in funding for Planned Parenthood.

On Thursday, the Texas Senate More…

Feds Consider Bringing Another High-Level Gitmo Prisoner to Trial in NYC

By | 12.14.09 | 6:32 pm

Federal prosecutors are weighing sending Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan to face a federal court trial in New York, The Associated Press reports, based on an anonymous source.

Khan is one of fewer than two dozen “high-value” detainees at the prison camp, believed to be a senior member of More…

McChrystal Envisions an End to the War

By | 11.30.09 | 5:48 pm

Courtesy of a Republican congressman, quoted by The Associated Press’s Deb Reichmann:

Even Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is giving hints, albeit privately, about a possible endgame.

Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican congressman from Colorado, said this week that during his visit to Kabul, he

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John Yoo Faces Back-to-School Welcome at Berkeley

By | 08.18.09 | 11:12 am

John Yoo should be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes, according to anti-war activists who greeted the University of California at Berkeley law professor when he returned to Boalt Hall, the law school where he has tenure, on Monday.

Yoo, of course, is the author of the infamous “torture More…

AP Predicts Gains for Franken

By | 12.15.08 | 1:45 pm

The Associated Press has done the dirty work of sorting through more than 5,000 challenged ballots in the Minnesota Senate recount, and its analysis should inspire some confidence in supporters of Democrat Al Franken:

The AP’s examination of the remaining challenges found:

- Fewer than half of the challenges

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Leak re Obama’s Aunt Endangers Her and Her Family

By | 11.02.08 | 12:06 pm

By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living in Boston who is an undocumented alien. They may also know that Zeituni Onyango, from Kenya, was denied political asylum by an immigration More…

AP Spots Palin Discrepancies on Global Warming

By | 09.12.08 | 10:27 am

In a major turnaround for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, she told ABC News, in an interview that aired last night, that she doesn’t disagree with scientists who say human activity is contributing to global warming.

Palin, however, tried to claim this is not a new stand for her. She insisted: More…