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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s response to the news that a man he granted clemency in 2000 is a suspect in yesterday’s brutal massacre of four police

Via TPMDC, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is up with a new advertisement showing his Republican challenger Sharron Angle bashing the unemployed,

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims rose 12,000, to 472,000. Last week’s claims were revised upward, from 456,000

Tom Udall, the Democratic congressman from New Mexico, now running for Senate, gives an exclusive interview with our sister site, NMI, in which he talks about

The only way to guarantee help for those facing disclosure is to supplement the Wall Street bailout.

These musings from Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) don’t seem to add much to the status of the Minnesota Senate race. I’m prepared to sign as soon as they give

In a tweet sent out this morning, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, says that the EPA must stop using “activist/ junk science or lose their funding.” According to his Twitter account, Ross will be meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, one-on-one. Jackson has been criticized for her role as the head of the agency now often deemed a “job killer” and has been especially scrutinized for her role in a set of numeric nutrient criteria that are mandated for the state of Florida.

This is Michael D. Furlong, a strategic planner for the Joint Information Operations Warfare Command based in Texas. According to a baroque story in today’s

Five top U.S. corporations racked up millions in profits last year and paid no federal taxes.

...are candidates for the State Board of Education asked whether they believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together. They both answered no, but the

U.S. consumers have cut back spending -- which should be good news because economists and financial counselors have long urged them to pay down their debt, especially on credit cards. But when everyone does it, you get a nasty recession. Congress may have to come to the rescue with a second stimulus package.

Retired generals and admirals said that they were encouraged by a meeting yesterday afternoon with Attorney General Eric Holder.

Michigan’s Republican-controlled redistricting map has prompted plans by Detroit Reps.

More seriously now. In Iran there’s something called an Assembly of Experts, a clerical body charged with electing the Supreme Leader and ensuring that he holds

Today Attorney General Michael Mukasey preempted a vote by the House Oversight Committee to hold him in criminal contempt. President George W. Bush asserted

Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee was passing a not-very-green cash-for-clunkers amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, three senators introduced a

So an Arkansas state senator calls Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Jew, and in the course of explaining away the remark through a folksy defense of

Another year, another position paper from the Center for a New American Security on Iraq. The previous bunch of CNAS Iraq position papers were authored by

Today is the day. Now we wait for what Gen. David Petraeus described on Wednesday as two weeks of high-level internal strategy and resource debates to find out

The federal government’s single biggest source of revenue is income tax, but cities and towns are primarily funded by sales and property taxes. That means