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Since the vice presidential debate last week, the McCain campaign has quietly increased Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s availability to the media. Instead of

More than 75 environmental and conservation groups have signed a petition calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to halt all oil sands projects that would

The first contentious moment between Attorney General Eric Holder and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) came almost three hours into today’s hearing. Asked to clarify

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

Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), the only Republican to offer the least bit of support for the Democrats’ health reform legislation this year, said Tuesday that she

Ben Smith finds some news in Sarah Palin’s all-over-the-place Hong Kong speech. Despite the need to move men and material by air into theaters like

You’ve probably heard by now that the five alleged plotters of the 9/11 terrorist attacks have not only admitted to the deed once again, but cackled and boasted

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) is out front with a statement congratulating Bob McDonnell on his big win in Virginia: I want to send my congratulations to Bob,

This is the best political ad of the decade, in retrospect.

In an interview with KNME’s Gwyneth Doland, State Auditor Hector Balderas, who is running in the Democratic primary for U.S.

The youthful Republican and ex-Speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives is pushing back against unsourced rumors that he’ll drop out of the 2010 U.S.

Apropos of intelligence chief Dennis Blair’s remarkable disclosure, the following statement comes from the American Civil Liberties Union’s Ben Wizner: It is

From a press conference Defense Secretary Bob Gates held in Kabul: First, I think that the Taliban in Pakistan overreached with their offensive in Buner

So says The Hill, which is reporting that the 91-year West Virginia Democrat was released from the hospital Tuesday after more than six weeks of treatment for

Rand Paul blasts Obama’s un-American criticism of British Petroleum. NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions takes the fall for the GOP loss in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania

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

Polls show a solidly, if not overwhelmingly, favorable response to the State of the Union. Nate Silver breaks down Obama’s use of buzzwords, finds

Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard.

In theory, 2009 was a bad year for the former presidential nominee. Sen. Kerry (D-Mass.) aggressively auditioned in 2008 for the position of secretary of state,