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Lotta good that did. The Obama administration last Friday issued an official statement in support of mortgage lending reforms that would allow some

President Obama said last night that civilian deaths in Iraq remain very low compared to what was going on last year. McClatchy: But statistics kept

Turns out the story from the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that the photos the Obama administration is refusing to release, despite a court order to do so, are not the

Senate Republicans realize that, barring some yet-unrevealed scandal, there’s little standing in the way of Sonia Sotomayor’s eventual placement on the Supreme

The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) is looking to stimulate the local economy by importing prisoners from

Is pleading ignorance the new spin of the coal industry? A leading spokesman for the coal lobby told CNN today that he “didn’t know” if burning coal

Michael Bromwich, who heads the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at the Interior Department, told a national commission on the Gulf oil spill

Speaking at the Kentucky Freedom Festival on Saturday, Republican Senate hopeful Rand Paul informed Tea Party activists that we have to get our policy out

Andrew Sullivan posts a must-read excerpt from a reader who considered -- but ultimately didn’t have -- a late-term abortion provided by Dr. George Tiller, who

State legislators introduced 1,592 immigration-related bills and resolutions in the first half of 2011, according to a new report from the National Conference

Despite new lobbying and ethics reforms, big business uses events like the political conventions to gain all-important access.

Fox Nation is promoting this story, which means that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) will join the food fight any moment now. was telling a group of business and

While Gov. Rick Perry’s push for legislation banning sanctuary cities won him a cool reception from Texas Latino leaders last month, the bill’s failure has

AIG CEO Edward Liddy said today that he’s asked AIG employees who received bonuses larger than $100,000 to give half the money back, and that some AIG employees

Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage has perfected the art of the salt-in-the-wound press release. His message to supporters on Scott Brown:

Just in time to throw another twist into the health reform debate, the Government Accountability Office reported today that Medicaid is paying to fill

President Obama has named Fred H. Bartlit Jr. as chief counsel for The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, a

The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that Rush Limbaugh is a television personality. The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show

One of the big themes of yesterday’s Code Red rally on Capitol Hill was Listen to me. That slogan appeared on buttons sported by members of conservative

On a conference call with reporters to release an unclassified version of the new National Intelligence Strategy, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair

The Obama administration has cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as it attempts to move toward closing the detention camp by