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Sen. Barack Obama is tapping his sizable political cell phone network to help Hurricane Gustav relief. On Monday, he issued a personal plea via text message to

Although Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is getting grief for all that he doesn’t plan on doing with his financial regulation reform bill, one thing that is in the

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used strong language Wednesday to describe Mexico’s struggle against its drug cartels, comparing it to an insurgency, even

By mailing them doctored Hawaiian vacation brochures with Denver pasted over Honolulu, and sending a delegation of Hooters waitresses to Democratic National Committee H.Q. in Washington as Denver goodwill ambassadors, master Republican manipulator Karl Rove allegedly tricked Dem muckety-mucks into choosing the Mile High City as the site of their 2008 convention.

DENVER--Tammy Duckworth -- Iraq war veteran, Illinois Veterans Affairs director, amputee and netroots favorite -- is smacking John McCain silly. She’s talking

Amid the Democrats’ boostering and the Republicans’ assaults on the final stimulus package, almost no one is focusing on a key part of the bill that will be

The Colorado Division of Wildlife is looking for two, maybe three potential Darwin Award recipients who bought hamburgers and cheeseburgers at the Burger King in Eagle on Wednesday and hand fed them to a mother black bear and her three cubs. “This is an extraordinary example of stupid and irresponsible behavior by people,” said CDOW northwest regional manager Ron Velarde, according to RealVail.com .

July is the bloodiest month for the United States in Afghanistan since the war began almost eight years ago. The entire defense establishment has warned that

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A boisterous, if not outright angry, crowd of about 100 people gathered in downtown today to protest government spending and high

And we’re underway. Hillary Clinton is gladhandling in the Hart Senate Office Buiding. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) -- who wanted to be where Clinton is this

Josh Rogin reports that multiple sources are saying Jim Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, is being headhunted for a position running Georgetown

I’m a little confused as to how you reason that a $663.7 billion defense budget that won’t be fully worked out until April sacrifices American primacy. I

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood looked a little out of his element last week, when he proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax on motorists as an

Although some in GOP politics have called her actions “ divisive ,” freshman lawmaker and tea party favorite Kim Pearson is only making good on a promise. Pearson, a Pleasant Hill Republican, taped a segment with faux Democratic presidential candidate and anti-abortion extremist Randall Terry this spring that spelled out her intentions toward the state political party and GOP lawmakers who did not live up to her level of conservatism.

The University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, which has a strong track record of finding evidence that exonerates people who were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, says they have found another innocent man in a state prison for the past 25 years. That man is Karl Vinson, convicted of raping a 9-year old girl in 1986.

Members of industry have long contended that environmental protections are incompatible with economic growth. That was one reason the Lieberman-Warner Climate

I’m still thinking about Sen. Ted Stevens’ farewell speech he gave on the floor of the Senate this morning. When he finished speaking, Stevens received a

You’re a maddening figure, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). You seem like a nice enough gentleman. And then you say things like this -- via Josh Orton at MyDD --

All during the presidential campaign, candidates of both parties practically tripped over themselves declaring their support for America’s veterans and vowing

TPM’s Eric Kleefeld reports that the Minnesota Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of Democrat Al Franken in his Senate election contest with former

While packed with carrots encouraging mortgage lenders to modify troubled loans, President Barack Obama’s plan to stem the foreclosure crisis still awaits its stick.

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, or House Resolution 3, which has stirred up anger among abortion-rights advocates throughout the nation -- House

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as