Daniel Tencer

Far from being a necessary part of the US’s national security strategy, the Afghanistan war is actually a threat to it, says Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich.
In a statement released two days after President Barack Obama announced a 30,000-troop surge for the war effort and a July, 2011, beginning for troop withdrawal, Kucinich argued that extending [...]

The US’s system for deporting illegal immigrants has become chaotic and unpredictable, and is denying people accused of being in the United States illegally the right to defend themselves, even as the immigrant detainee population has exploded over the past decade, according to a series of new reports on the state of US immigration.
Moreover, at [...]

Some Republican senators are taking heat for voting against an amendment that would allow employees of military contractors to sue their employers if they are raped at work — and they want the Democratic senator who wrote the amendment to help them fight off the bad publicity.
In October, 30 Republicans voted against Sen. Al Franken’s [...]

New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg has circulated a letter to his Senate colleagues, instructing them on how to use the rules of Senate debate to delay and perhaps even defeat the health care bill being debated in the upper chamber.
The letter, obtained by The Hill (PDF), TalkingPointsMemo and Politico (PDF), among others, runs through [...]

The Arkansas coordinator for HuckPAC, Mike Huckabee’s political action committee, announced his resignation Tuesday, pointing to the recent controversy surrounding the former Arkansas governor’s commutation of Maurice Clemmons’ prison sentence.
The 37-year-old Clemmons was shot dead by a police officer in Seattle on Tuesday, after allegedly gunning down four Lakewood, Washington, police officers, triggering one of [...]