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And just like that, as if to reassure those on the Left that he’s still tuned in to their concerns, comes this report, from First Read: President-elect Obama

The New York Times reports that Republican Bob McDonnell rode to an easy victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race Tuesday, based on exit polls. Mr. McDonnell

My former colleague Mike Lillis, now at The Hill, reports that Senate Democrats are attempting to win over Maine Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan

According to CNN’s Peter Hamby, that’s what the protester who just got ejected from the hearing room was yelling.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is projected to keep her Senate seat, besting her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina, the Associated Press reports. That means

West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant announced this afternoon that a special election to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D) seat will occur in

As closing arguments ended Wednesday in the Northern California District Court trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the state’s voter-approved

The Obama administration released today a series of sustainability plans meant to meet the requirements laid out in a Oct. 2009 executive order that called

Democrats are ripping Sen. John McCain for misrepresenting his garage, after Newsweek reported that some of the McCain family’s 13 cars are foreign -- despite

Appearing on Comedy Central Thursday night, former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer made a direct appeal to the people of Iowa while noting his opposition to PAC money made him unable to compete in the upcoming Ames Straw Poll. Roemer has prohibited his campaign from accepting special interest money

Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are two of the latest Senate Democrats to use their opening statements in Elena Kagan’s confirmation

The Washington Post reports on President Obama’s new strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: A White House official said energy would remain a top

This morning, the National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business lobbying group, announced that its index of optimism among small business

The Charleston County (S.C.) Republican Party’s move to censure Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) didn’t strike me as too surprising--last year, Graham fended off a

Just so no one misconstrues a previous post as me having issues with Dave Dilegge or Small Wars Journal, let me hat-tip SWJ for this just-released Army field

Politico has a story today on how some of the likely new GOP House members plan to address immigration. Many of them pushed for tough immigration enforcement

It is with a mix of emotions that I announce the departure of The Washington Independent’s national security reporter -- and in many ways the cornerstone of the

The good folks at BloggingHeads asked me to film an episode from Afghanistan. So, from my hotel room in Kabul, my friend Rob Farley from Lawyers Guns and Money

If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also have

Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) outlined his priorities for next Congress today if he is chosen by his fellow Republicans to assume the chairmanship of the House

With write-in ballots -- the vast majority of which are presumed to be for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) -- garnering nearly 41 percent of the vote in Alaska’s

The Minnesota governor’s race appears headed for a recount. Republicans, who won the legislature on Tuesday, may seek to draw it out so they can work with Gov. Tim Pawlenty to pass conservative legislation. In the background looms the specter of the 2008 Senate recount.