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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,

Attacks launched by the Obama administration and other Democratic-leaning groups against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads GPS are translating into

The Cairo speech has eaten up most of my day, but last night, Bruce Riedel, the chairman of the Obama administration’s strategy review on Afghanistan and

As Matt points out, President George W. Bush announced he wants to see the U.S. start drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and exploring the Arctic National

As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced last night, the Senate this afternoon will consider seven amendments before voting on a proposed $2

Michelle Obama tells a joke: First lady Michelle Obama called her current life in the White House a very blessed situation, because I have what most

PHOENIX -- Sen. John McCain paints himself as a pro-veteran’s veteran, but his voting history tells a different story.

Reports on Monday that Michele Bachmann’s family business was performing therapy to “cure” gays and lesbian s of homosexuality quickly became a campaign issue for the presidential contender. When pressed by a local ABC affiliate to weigh in on the clinic she and husband Marcus own , Bachmann refused to answer questions about the “reparative therapy” that undercover video showed was being performed there. Interview requests at the Today Show and ABC News were also dodged on Monday

Mother Jones has an interesting article in its latest issue about the Juan Doe problem: What do U.S. officials do with the dead bodies of migrants they find