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It ain’t uplifting, but it’s arguably the most pressing issue facing the country right now, so after the jump, check out TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the omnipresent

Obama’s new mortgage assistance program looks great, until you realize that it’s 2 percent of the money he unsuccessfully gave banks to fix the same problem.

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- As we noted previously, Sen. John McCain took a pretty harsh position on whether gays should be allowed to adopt children in a recent

Just out from the Pentagon: the first units designated for service in Afghanistan in support of President Obama’s announced plus-up of 17,000 troops have been

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has given Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) an ultimatum: Stop trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year,

Documents released quietly over the holiday weekend raises doubts about the Bush administration’s portrayal of Gitmo.

Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post has a nice piece about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s recent foray into opposing the resettlement of Uighur detainees,

The New Mexico Independent’s Trip Jennings reports that Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) is getting in on some of that sweet, sweet executive privilege

Greg Sargent reports: Uh oh. It looks like GOP Senators may make an issue out of the fact that they were kept out of the loop on today’s announcement of the

Stepping off my usual beat for a moment -- Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic fundraiser who has faltered in his run for governor of Virginia, is out with a final

As Josh Kraushaar points out, that domain name has been snapped up by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), the GOP’s likely 2010 U.S. Senate nominee, to politick against

In a big win for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate on Tuesday killed legislation that would have made it easier for Americans to buy their prescription

The Response, a prayer and fasting event featuring rumored presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry and financed by the American Family Association, has

Steve Rosen, who’s trying to derail Ambassador Chas Freeman’s chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council, says this about M.J. Rosenberg from the Israel

In an interview with Sean Hannity on his ABC News radio show, Sarah Palin chastised President Obama for telling Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), during the health

On Thursday, Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani admonished critics that his government had not endorsed any peace deal with the Taliban in the Swat

The discrepancies in the Senate’s version of the stimulus package leaves housing advocates fuming.

President Obama might have signed the bill that allows loaded weapons in national parks, but don’t tell that to the armed activists who gathered Monday at

At noon today. Laura Rozen reports: Scheduled to brief members: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy; Holbrooke deputy Paul Jones; the ODNI’s