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Just when you thought the Florida Senate race drama had stabilized for a few hours, meet Jeff Greene. Greene, a real estate billionaire, is reportedly preparing

In a post-midterm press conference today, President Obama called on lawmakers to find areas of consensus on energy policy. Well, I think I’ve been willing to

Colorado Sixth District Congressman Mike Coffman is making national headlines for trotting out a Glenn Beck-style Obama conspiracy theory on Denver talk radio. He said the president is secretly working to grant citizenship to millions of undocumented residents who will return the favor by voting for Obama next November

Of the 532 sitting members of Congress, just 76 are female. But tonight, the hottest elections on tap feature female candidates regarded as major game

I meant to blog this when it first came out, but Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times writer Paul Krugman has as good an evisceration of the

A subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a bill that would require the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas, by Nov. 1

In 2008, one of the worst years to run as a Republican candidate for Congress, Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.) ran against freshman Rep. Ronald Klein (D-Fla.) in the

Later today, the Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on House-passed legislation extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits through the

Obviously I don’t have any stake in the reputation-destruction fight going on in Politico between Bill Kristol and ex-McCain campaign foreign policy adviser

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With a field of GOP candidates who have yet to catch fire, social issues — especially same sex marriage and abortion — are becoming defining factors in a how a candidate will play in the Hawkeye State, political activist Bob Vander Plaats told The Iowa Independent this week. Furthermore, Vander Plaats says, social litmus tests are not responsible for driving away more fiscal Republican candidates, like former Massachusetts Gov

In a message that Iraq Veterans Against the War is helping spread, two soldiers identified as serving with the company in Wikileaks’ Iraq video -- the one

Let’s be very specific about what we mean when we describe the troop increase that President Obama is expected to announce tonight. I see the headline of this

Last week, The American Independent reported on a policy within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “Project Gunrunner” program

Broward County construction workers who said Monday that they have not been paid for several weeks of work at a Fort Lauderdale building project are looking at their legal options to recover their wages.

Both the House and Senate bills include a strong new consumer financial protection agency and it will regulate them (payday lenders), one consumer advocate said.

The America’s Future Now! conference, organized by the progressive Campaign for America’s Future, kicked off in Washington today, and TWI’s crack video team

Gay-rights activists have long speculated that the Mormon Church was the primary benefactor behind NOM. But the Knights of Columbus disclosure shows the Catholic group played a pivotal role in funding NOM’s efforts to deny marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.

So reports Jeff Stein on his brand-new Washington Post intelligence blog: The Justice Department and Warren’s Florida-based attorney, Mark David Hunter,

Less than a day after Alvin Greene scored an upset victory in South Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary, the state party has begun a PR campaign to push him

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