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The rhetoric on earmarks and pork barrel spending keeps paying dividends for conservative advocacy groups looking to undermine House Democrats in swing

YUMA, Ariz.-- Sen. John McCain’s seemingly contradictory views on immigration reflect his need to make inroads with Latino voters without alienating the GOP base.

Earlier today I talked to Jill Stanek, an anti-abortion rights activist who hounded Barack Obama over his vote against Illinois’s Born Alive Infant Protection

John McCain, Palin aides assert, has no idea of the location of the Tlingit Indian reservation, nor any idea how, when or why the Eagle Dance is performed.

The University of Texas College of Liberal Arts has issued a 17-page rebuttal to higher education reform plans promoted by Gov. Rick Perry and his allies,

After days of speculation about his mysterious disappearance, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) just admitted to an extramarital affair and resigned as the chairman of

From Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas)’s opening statement at today’s budget hearing. Mr. Chairman, we have just spent the last hour listening to our Democrat

Andrew Young’s tell-all biography of John Edwards, hitting shelves next week, is surging in one Amazon.com category in particular. #1 in Conspiracy

Senate aides, in a background briefing today, laid out a number of the provisions that will be included in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy

Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in

A very broad Freedom of Information Act request for all emails and communications from professors in labor relations programs at the state’s major public universities is sparking controversy and questions about the motivation for the request. Talking Points Memo reported Tuesday that the Mackinac Center , a conservative think tank located in Midland, on March 25 submitted FOIA requests to Michigan State University, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan.

Just now at Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) speech at the Heritage Foundation: Over 50 million people voted for me and Sarah Palin—mostly for Sarah Palin. The

It may be too soon to draw comparisons between the Vermilion 380 oil rig explosion and the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion. The Associated Press has a helpful

Appearing on Fox News yesterday, Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), senior Republican on the House Ways & Means Committee, reiterated an oft-mentioned, but also

Here’s their joint statement released following this morning’s Supreme Court argument in Citizens United v. FEC: It is important to note that the case reargued

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