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This time, they were actually invited - in fact, they were the guests of honor - but they didn't bother to show up.

The reaction from Democratic members of Congress -- those with actual power -- seems to be just favorable enough .

The eight-year U.S. effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama's new plan to quickly get the nation's army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months.

Photo: Tareq and Michaele Salahi at White House state dinner Nov. 24, 2009. WASHINGTON Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the reality show-seeking couple who crashed a White House state dinner Nov.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said Thursday the country is fortunate the White House state dinner security breach didn't end in a "night of horror." Secret Service director Mark Sullivan acknowledged mistakes were made but said he's confident President Barack Obama was never at risk.

Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress expressed reservations about President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy after he announced a plan to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan by next summer and bring some soldiers home in 18 months.

While President Obama on Tuesday attempted to convince the American public that his strategy in Afghanistan would prove successful, an equal challenge lay in winning over skeptics within his own party.

Marcy Winograd, 36th congressional district candidate, expressed deep disappointment in President Obama's imminent decision to send an additional 30,000 - 40,000 US troops to Afghanistan, to join 68,000 other American soldiers, as well as 60,000 military contractors operating outside the scope of U.S. military law.

If California's Democratic Party had a motto right now, it would probably be, "No drama." The party doesn't like surprises.

News of Gavin Newsom's departure from the governor's race was met with mixed emotions in Democratic circles last week.

There's a significant new straw in the political wind for President Obama to consider.

A House-passed bill intended to reduce the amount of material being classified at the Homeland Security Department is now advancing in the Senate.

It is, by any reasonable measure, the biggest party in the biggest state in the nation.

Two Austin congressmen disagree on the immediate need for a congressional investigation into last week's mass shooting at Ft.

I'm heading down to San Diego from Los Angeles this weekend to attend the California Democratic Party Executive Board meeting, where we will debate an End the Occupation and Air War in Afghanistan resolution I co-authored with Progressive Caucus Chair Karen Bernal and prolific author Norman Solomon.

U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, asked that the House Homeland Security Committee begin its own investigation into whether Army Maj.

The most unusual thing about the 2010 race for governor of California, the campaign that's been proceeding in under-the-radar stealth style for much of the past year, is that the current leader is the one putative candidate who has yet to stage a single public campaign event.

SECURITIES and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Schapiro, who regulates a wide swathe of Wall Street, is the richest of the Obama administration's top officials with an estimated net worth of US$26.6 million, according to a new analysis of United States public officials' wealth.

Just when Jerry Brown's nine political lives seemed to have finally run out, the iconoclastic Californian comes up with a new surprise.

After two days of inquiry into the mass shooting at Fort Hood , investigators have tentatively concluded that it was not part of a terrorist plot.