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An aide to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on a conservative radio program Sunday that last year’s much-maligned ads by Palin’s PAC showing rifle crosshairs over 20 Democratic congressional districts – including Gabrielle Giffords’s CD8 in Arizona – were actually meant to represent surveyor’s symbols on a map

As the nation continues to unravel Gov. Rick Perry’s past, Salon looked at his friendship with the Aga Khan, a prominent, rich leader of the Ismaili sect of

I think Carly Fiorina campaign spokeswoman Amy Thoma deserves some sort of prize for this spin on an email -- sent to supporters of the former executive’s

Which his lawyer says here. It wouldn’t be the first time the Feds had railroaded an innocent man. Hopefully we’ll learn more about the evidence soon.

Behind Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Republicans this morning have continued to block a $9.2 billion proposal to extend COBRA health benefits, delay a 21

Cleveland--Wednesday, Sen. John McCain leaves here for St. Paul, where the presumed GOP nominee is due to give the most important speech of his political

When the National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads promoting a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions last fall, the groups should have reported those expenditures, according to a complaint filed with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board earlier this month. The complaint, which focuses on ads launched throughout the 2010 campaign cycle in support of gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, asks for financial penalties as well as an audit of NOM’s spending in Minnesota

During and after a pair of anti-health care bill rallies on Capitol Hill, I asked a few Republican members of the House -- two of whom went on stage -- whether

Ben Smith has a great write-up on something I’ve been talking about for a while: tension between the social conservative activists who provided the muscle for

Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ spokesman Geoff Morrell tells Ben Smith there’s still a GWOT after all.

Nothing, according to the sponsor of a measure that would make it more difficult for public employee unions to collect dues, which cleared its first Senate panel Monday. A representative of the Florida Chamber of Commerce disagreed

What you’re seeing here in Massachusetts is a reflection of what’s happening all across the country, said a Tea Party leader.

Looks like Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) past vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has in fact become an issue in this last full week of his primary

Voters in Traverse City voted Tuesday to approve a non-discrimination ordinance that includes sexual orientation and gender identity as protected categories.

Two atheistic groups and a lawsuit call on Washington to end its sanction of religion in the military. Critics decry this as an attack on a venerable tradition. But the blend of martial and spiritual in the armed forces is largely the residue of the fight again communism in the late 1940s and 1950s. What will the Obama administration do?

Alexandra pointed out here last week that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), newly promoted to head the Senate Agriculture Committee, has been raking in the dollars

The Washington Post does the math on the so-called revolving door between the federal government and the oil industry, underscoring the significant influence

The Pew Environment Group today came out in opposition to a bill introduced last spring by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that would open up a “Wyoming-sized” chunk of national forest and Bureau of Land Management land to resource extraction, road building and motorized vehicle traffic. “This legislation would undo decades of public land protections by opening up an area the size of Wyoming to new industrial activity,” Pew Environment Group Deputy Director Tom Wathen said in a prepared statement

As unemployment has soared and remained high, the state of Michigan, like many other states, has borrowed billions from the federal government to cover its unemployment benefit payments. Starting this month, the bill comes due. Stateline has a graphic that shows how much each state owes.

Hannah Allam reports from Baghdad for McClatchy: Iraq’s most prominent clerics have ruled that using a water pump on one’s own pipes is akin to stealing

In a more thoughtful body, he could lose his position. That’s Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), speaking to Politico’s Victoria McGrane about the left-right