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Hints of scandal in the Ensign affair. Still unanswered: Why did he come clean? Maybe Obama’s people need to drink more milk. Rep. Michele Bachmann

A pair of campaign finance complaints against the National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council were dismissed by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Wednesday. Common Cause Minnesota had filed the complaints alleging that advertising by the two groups on an anti-gay marriage amendment in 2010 constituted lobbying. The board ruled that the ads were too vague to trigger the registration requirement for lobbyists

Republicans: Obama is too distracted by domestic issues to keep the country safe. Looks like Dems will expedite health reform by forgoing a formal

No one likes paying taxes, responds Scott Brown to news of the plane attack on a Texas IRS building. What are Obama’s biggest challenges in 2010? Here’s a

White House: Decision to appoint new social secretary will not affect donors’ access to lawmakers. Liz Cheney’s group attacks lawyers defending Gitmo

Democrat Kathy Hochul is reportedly streaming ahead of Republican Jane Corwin in the Buffalo-area special election that has been marked out as a first test of the controversial GOP congressional budget plan crafted by Paul Ryan that seeks to “save” Medicare by turning it into a voucher system. Hochul hammered on the Ryan Medicare plan and Corwin defended it mostly by backing away from it. “Just for the record, I am not decimating Medicare!” she told seniors in the aging upstate district

The American Association of School Administrators released a statement today on the Atlanta Public Schools teaching scandal: At its regularly scheduled

Jim Risen broke the story in yesterday’s New York Times, but now you can read the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s full report about the narcotics problem

This year, annual congressional financial disclosure forms (PDF), due May 16, would have included -- for the first time -- required information about married

On mortgage giant Freddie Mac’s blog, Featured Perspectives, executive Don Bisenius takes on strategic defaulters -- underwater mortgage-holders (that is,

As I clicked publish on Art’s TV-pushes-the-vaccines-autism-line post a minute ago, I noticed CNN was airing a press conference held by parents of an autistic

Joan Walsh points to a video I’d been wondering about -- the footage shot by cameramen who were trailing Andrew Breitbart at CPAC, monitoring his conversations

A new federal funding formula from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will result in a reduction of $2.1 million in federal funding for the state of Michigan for HIV testing and prevention by 2014. Advocates and health officials warn the cuts could have a negative impact on the state’s public health. “The prevention measures to minimize incidence of HIV also impact numerous other Public Health problems such as sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, cervical cancer, infertility, low birth weight, infant mortality, substance abuse and mental health,” says Renee Canaday, deputy health director of the Ingham County Health Department

BOSTON -- That, via Alex Isenstadt and Josh Kraushaar, is the number that defined the Massachusetts Senate race more than anything else. From the primary

Cherilyn Eagar, a conservative activist running an aggressive primary campaign against Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), announces an endorsement that might not have

The Susan B. Anthony List is among the anti-abortion rights groups taking credit for the trend of states cutting federal funding for reproductive services in

I don’t yet have the transcript of his presser this afternoon, but according to Reuters, Defense Secretary Bob Gates has embraced the measure to reduce the

The elections are over. Let’s all speculate about the next ones. Bush says the worst moment of his presidency was an insult from Kanye West. Lion cubs

Last week, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) called on TV networks and other news organizations to refrain from calling the presidential winner while the polls remain

The Rachel Maddow Show once again turned its attention to the extremist record of those endorsing Gov. Rick Perry’s August prayer event, hosted by the

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele + conservative radio show = hilarious gaffes. The liberal blog Fired Up! has the audio of Steele rolling

What Democrats saw as an opportunity to turn American opinion against Republican obstructionism in the Senate became an opportunity for conservatives to endorse a slowdown of Senate business.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as