This post is a response to new Huffington Post blogger Harold Parmington III's Western Activism Won't Help Tibet. I have spent eight years working in the Tibetan independence movement and have blogged extensively about what has been happening in Tibet since March 10th. That said, I would like...

We will likely know next week whether or not Glenn Greenwald's reporting on Democrats caving on FISA is substantively correct or not. He has said it comes from unimpeachable sources and while some in the House are denying it, it seems others are corroborating it.

The entire process on...

We will likely know next week whether or not Glenn Greenwald's reporting on Democrats caving on FISA is substantively correct or not. He has said it comes from unimpeachable sources and while some in the House are denying it, it seems others are corroborating it.

The entire process on...

There's been a lot of hay made on right wing blogs, talk radio, and ol' fashioned cable news today that the New York Times ran an unsourced smear job against John McCain. The goal of this kind of pushback is to discredit the Times reporting on a possible sex scandal,...

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I and other staffers at Students for a Free Tibet have spent the last couple of days working extensively to support the activists who staged an historic protest on Mount Everest against China's occupation of Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Games and help tell their story...

Mike from Blue Hampshire interviewed Senator Chris Dodd on Sunday and used his time to try to address what the senior senator from Connecticut thinks ending America's presence in Iraq really means.

Mike: There's some concern about the bases we've built in Iraq, and whether the candidates are...

Marc Ambinder of Hotline On Call addresses John Podhoretz's NY Post piece, wherein J-Pod gets antsy in his pantsy about Giuliani blowing his chances with conservative Republican voters by neglecting his leadership credentials. Ambinder writes:

Giuliani's judgment about national security matters is central to his identity as a...

As Arianna Huffington ably documents, the story of the first quarter Democratic presidential numbers is not one of dominance by Hillary Clinton, but the extremely strong showing by Barack Obama. Almost 30% of Clinton's reported money for the quarter was transfered from her Senate account, which means that it...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected a request by Republican Congressman Christopher Shays (CT-04) to switch to the Democratic caucus and maintain his seniority. Shays, a pro-war Republican from a largely anti-war district,...

John McCain's new online petition calls the supplemental funding bill, which includes a deadline for redeploying American troops from Iraq, "surrender." The petition includes a description of what McCain thinks is problematic legislation:

The supplemental appropriations bill that passed the Senate on March 27, calling for a date...

Adam Nagourney of the NY Times takes a long look at the Dan Riehl Vote (also known as the Bill Cutting Vote) in Iowa and how anti-immigrant sentiments are shaping the Republican primary. For those who have defended Republican discussions of immigration policy as being circumscribed to...

Last month I attended the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting. I saw every presidential candidate speak about their vision for America and what they would do if elected president, including Senator Hillary Clinton.

Clinton made two major statements about Iraq in her DNC speech.

First she said,...

After a big build-up of expectation that Senator Chuck Hagel would announce something about his intentions for 2008 today - presidential campaign, senatorial campaign, or retirement - Hagel punted his decision until later this year. As someone who does not understand why Hagel would run for president, I see...

It's already widely been blogged that Scooter Libby was found guilty on four of five counts related to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name.

More important, now, though is how this case moves in the political realm. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called on President Bush...

Newt Gingrich's entrance into CPAC was planned for someone who expected to win the straw poll. Though he didn't win the poll outright, Newt effectively did win the straw poll. He tied Romney for 30% of total votes, coming in just behind Rudy Giuliani's 34%. But Gingrich was received to...

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I've been highly critical of Romney's campaign for the last four months. I find it tremendously hard to believe that a candidate who was fundraising and voting for Democrats fifteen years ago and arguing that he was to the left of Ted Kennedy would...

UPDATE: Ann Coulter, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference: "I was going to talk about the other Democratic candidate John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word "Faggot."

I'm at CPAC and will be providing periodic updates on...

I'm at CPAC and will be providing periodic updates on the conferences events. Unfortunately there is no wifi within the conference area and I have to post from the lobby. As such, some of the posts contain less background linking than I would normally prefer.

Duncan Hunter

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I recently finished reading Joe Conason's new book, It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril In The Age of Bush. I, like many bloggers and blog readers, read pretty much every book I can get my hands on that offers to explain our current political...

Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Anti-war Democrats are so irresponsible in their war opposition that the only solution is to let them have the White House in 2008 so they will start to feel the fear we feel on the Right and they can start to wet the bed every night...