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Today during the markup process to overhaul the main education law of the land, No Child Left Behind, senators on the HELP Committee managed to discuss a

Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal personally apologized to the family of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the fallen Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire in 2004, for

In short: no, it wouldn’t, according to Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, and Jim Harper, director of information

Every living CIA director -- except Bob Gates and Leon Panetta, of course* (Update: and President George H.W. Bush and Adm. Stansfield Turner) -- has signed a

I swear: this is the full and complete text of an email alert that the State Department just sent me. Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Remarks

With all the public barbs being traded back and forth between the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama administration, it’s easy to forget that the Chamber is

There is nothing I could possibly add to this amazing video fact-check of the wild inaccuracies that Fox peppers its PATRIOT Act report with, produced by my

I’m still in shock over former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comment that we had no domestic attacks under Bush. Is it possible that he meant to add after

Anti-illegal immigration groups claim that an environmental bill to protect lands in New Mexico will make it easier for cartels and immigrants to enter the country.

Sharron Angle, Nevada’s Republican candidate for Senate, has a new ad today attacking her opponent Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on his positions on illegal

Citing reports alleging that Sen. Barack Obama has received illegal campaign contributions from overseas, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis called for the

For the past month, Senate Democrats have bent over backward to get Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) behind their health reforms -- a move that seemed to pay

On Monday an installment of Freedom Radio, a podcast production of FreedomWorks, outlined the conservative action group’s involvement in the school choice

Via Danger Room, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, took a jaundiced view of the role of contractors in Afghanistan: I

Economic analysts agree it’s too early to judge Gov. Terry Branstad on attaining the economic goals he set forth during his campaign, but at least one says it’s a safe bet they won’t be reached

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, purchased a full-page ad yesterday in the New York Times entitled Straight Talk about the Catholic Church. In

Speaking at The Atlantic’s Green Intelligence Forum today, Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Hayes said the Obama administration has not yet done

Since his announcement of an exploratory committee for a possible 2012 presidential campaign, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has been carving out a campaign