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Big corporations have been portrayed as the villains in the story of this year’s explosion in campaign spending, unloading vast sums of money to elect

The GOP’s 21-page Pledge to America proposal, released today, is mostly silent on energy policy. In fact, the proposal summarizes Republicans’ energy policy

The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of the race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District has Democratic candidate Bill Owens in the lead, benefiting from the

David C. Gompert, a former RAND Corporation vice president and longtime nonpartisan State and National Security Council official (Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the

The Associated Press reports: Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after

Bill Kristol hears that Rasmussen Reports, the conservative pollster whose surveys have consistently shown the lowest levels of support for the stimulus, is

Marilyn Musgrave, the ultra-conservative Republican congresswoman from Colorado who disappeared for a while after her 2008 defeat, has emerged in the NY-23 to

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the iconoclastic Minnesota congresswoman becomes, as far as I can tell, the first incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party

Not totally clear yet, but it seems that way. From NPR just now: While Iran did not reject the plan outright, state TV said that Tehran was waiting for a

Speaking before Florida’s Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Thursday, oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg faced lingering questions about

The former Congressional Budget Organization head and McCain campaign economic adviser shows up on the host committee for Tim Pawlenty’s Pretzels and Pints

In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today

The CIA said techniques like sleep deprivation worked better when a detainee’s resistance was weakened from hunger.

This just released from the NATO command in Afghanistan: Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters were involved in what was believed to

In recent weeks more than 60 people -- including seven police officers -- have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.

Watch out for simplistic reporting on a new study on the impact of climate change legislation on the Midwest. So far, reports on the study are

While you were rending your garment over Chas Freeman, this is happening, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman: The U.S. government still

Sen. Charles Schumer says there are enough votes in the Senate to pass an immigration bill.

Remember when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) ran for re-election? Here’s a refresher: Californians dodged a bullet. Instead of having their taxes

We’re not trying to supplant or replace RedState or Townhall, John Solomon said. We love those sites.

Though Exxon Mobil initially insisted that the pipeline that ruptured and spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River this month carried only low sulfur crude from Wyoming, the company has now acknowledged that the pipeline is used to transport tar sands crude from Alberta. Oil from the Canadian tar sands is produced by melting asphalt-like deposits and must be diluted with lightweight and volatile chemicals in order to flow through pipelines. Tar sands oil is known to be more corrosive that other types of crude and it contains more heavy metals

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports that the strangest thing about Sen. John McCain’s rally in Columbus, Ohio, was California