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Moderate Democrats have grown wary of big spending bills, fearing that support for such measures could haunt them on the campaign trail this year.

The week before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is one of countless stories poking gentle fun at the stranger items on the schedule. Alex

Eartha Melzer, our colleague at Michigan Messenger, has been doing some of the best reporting on Dow Chemical’s successful efforts to evade responsibility for

The Wall Street Journal Political Diary reported that Republicans are worried that Gov. Charlie Crist, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, is

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he still would like to see hearings on abuses of the 14th Amendment by illegal immigrants who come

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater -- sorry, Xe Services, the new name for the company -- to say that Blackwater shell company Paravant

Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging

Action comes less than a month after Pentagon leadership suggested the ban on open gay service wouldn’t be overturned this year.

A robocall points out -- 10 times -- that Democratic candidate Tony Sessoms is homosexual. Jim Manchin refuses to pledge support for Barack Obama or Harry

Even with the Obama Justice Department on the side of John Yoo, the former Bush administration deputy assistant attorney general at the Office of Legal Counsel,

In a speech given at the SW Graduate School of Banking yesterday evening, Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, blasted the

That’s the argument that the Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian makes in his latest post at the National Review. Obviously the Obamacare

The United States deported a record of nearly 393,000 people in the fiscal year ending September 30, according to statistics (pdf) from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). About half were deported for criminal convictions, while the other half were deported for “non-criminal immigration violations.” The number of deportations rose sharpest from FY2007 to FY2008, rising from 291,060 deportations to 369,221 deportations. The number of those deported on less-serious traffic violations rose from 4,527 in FY2008 to 13,028 in FY2010, as did those for drunk-driving from 10,851 to 27,635.

It seems I’m not the only one who finds it odd that the State Dept.’s blog DipNote isn’t promoting the Zawahiri house negro tape to discredit Al Qaeda. Matt

During President Obama’s Cairo trip earlier this month, the press corps finally uncovered the truth about President Obama: by saying shukran -- the Arabic

A rare joint talk Thursday exposed some differences their countries have with the Obama administration’s new strategy to confront extremism in South Asia, as well as with each other.