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Michele Bachmann announced Monday that she was adding staff to her campaigns in Iowa and South Carolina. Ron Thomas will be Senior Advisor for South Carolina and Guy Short will become National Political Director based in Des Moines. Short has a reputation as an aggressive lobbyist to such a degree that Republicans in Colorado considered giving him the boot, and Thomas’ stint as a staffer for the South Carolina Republican Party involved promises of federal faith-based funds to churches for electoral support

How long before Glenn Beck calls Howard A. Schmidt a czar? Also, who is this guy, anyway? Mr. Schmidt is the chief executive officer of the Information

I’m comfortable with the entire plan, Gen. McChrystal says in reference to a question from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Amb. Eikenberry agrees. About the July

A bill that would have pulled state funding from local governments refusing to participate in the controversial Secure Communities program died in the Senate Monday.

Crossroads GPS, a conservative policy and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., continues to buy ads in the Des Moines TV market. An examination of public files shows the group has spent more than $24,000 for airtime in early November. Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, which has ties to former White House deputy chief Karl Rove, has ads scheduled to run through Nov

The private security company, renamed Xe Services, objects to my use of the verb stole to refer to the guns it got from the U.S. military in Afghanistan in

So now that the pre-trial hearing in Omar Khadr’s military commission has recessed while the government conducts a mental-health exam of the 23-year old

The USS Bataan arrived in Port-au-Prince harbor yesterday and by 9 a.m., the Marines on board went ashore to prep the beach for Bataan’s mission to render aid

This week, North Carolina will make it easier for residents to divert money to nonprofit pregnancy centers that counsel women against abortion through license

Defense Secretary Bob Gates, as Matt DeLong said, is in the Obama administration for another year. Charlie from the prominent counterinsurgency blog Abu

It’s official. Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the director of the Joint Staff and a former corps commander in Iraq under Gens. David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno,

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) A state-by-state look at the American Jobs Act , which President Obama presented to Congress last week, shows that Florida could gain thousands of education and infrastructure jobs. However, state GOP policymakers are already showing early signs that they might not participate in the president’s efforts.

A source with an environmental group participating in a series of meetings with electric utilities on climate and energy legislation says discussions feel very

The Republican National Committee has sent reporters a radio actuality by John Bolton, President George W. Bush’s controversial ex-U.N. ambassador, who has

School voucher opponents in Indiana were dealt a massive setback to overturning the state’s recently passed Indiana Choice Scholarship Program (CSP) when a

Roger Simon confirms that the Republican National Committee will vote on, and probably pass, a resolution rebranding Democrats as the ’Democrat Socialist

Today, Automatic Data Processing, or ADP, which processes payrolls for private companies, said that the private sector added 55,000 jobs to payroll in May --

Some very just desserts on this Columbus Day morning: Peter Diamond, a lauded economist at MIT, won the Nobel Prize, along with Dale T. Mortensen and

After much of the day’s news was dominated by Wikileaks’ distribution of a graphic video purporting to show U.S. military personnel in Iraq in 2007 firing from