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Wonder what more than $300 billion in taxpayer money for the Troubled Asset Relief Program has actually paid for? The Government Accounting Office spent close

Although Guantanamo Bay detainee Bahtiyar Mahnut has been invited, along with 11 more of his fellow Chinese Uighurs, to settle in the island nation of Palau, it

So said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who told reporters today that he’ll bring the bill to the floor without knowing if the Democrats have the

TALKEETNA, Alaska -- Looks like a feud has kicked up between The Times of London and the local paper that covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown, the Mat-Su

By calling for the end of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, House Democratic leaders have put themselves in the uncomfortable position of

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today called Cash for Clunkers: An Expensive Environmental Fix, which argues that despite its bigger-than-expected

In a move that activists call unnecessary and based on bigotry, Rep. Tom Hooker (R-Byron Center) wants to make sure that Michigan taxpayers do not foot the bill for any gender assignment surgeries Michigan prisoners may need as part of their treatment. Hooker readily admits he knows of no case where a Michigan prisoner has had gender reassignment surgery

The White House seems committed to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency approach -- and his most likely replacements share his outlook.

Every four years there is speculation as to what might diminish Iowa’s first-in-the-nation’s caucus process, and this presidential cycle is proving no different with social conservative influence being held up as the latest danger. But two historic defenders of the state’s process say this threat, just like so many in years prior, simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny

Republicans are pushing back against efforts by senior Senate Democrats to paint the Republican alternative energy bill as an oil industry bailout. Jim

The insurgents could respond by targeting the Pakistani army in Waziristan or sending fighters across the porous border into Afghanistan.

Excellent rundown from James Besser in the Jewish Week about the coterie of Christian and Jewish peace-process rejectionists ready to support Benjamin

Somehow I missed the forest of President Obama’s Iraq visit for the trees. Peter Juul corrects: At the end of his European trip yesterday, President Barack

A marijuana plant (Pic by LancerenoK, via Fotopedia) State Rep. Jeff Clemens , D-Lake Worth, filed a joint resolution last week that would allow Floridians to vote on whether they want to legalize medical marijuana in the state during the 2012 election

Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bob Gates is the secretary of defense and has just released a Pentagon budget proposal

The Houston Chronicle reported late last night that Michael Bromwich -- director of the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and

Last week, CIA Director-designate appeared to argue that certain Al Qaeda detainees were too dangerous to stand trial -- something that threw civil libertarians

Is Rep. Michele Bachmann’s new post on the House Intelligence Committee an effort by GOP leadership to stifle her inflammatory statements in the media

The Republican congressman from California who’ll be speaking at an Orange County Tea Party complains about the Department of Homeland Security report on