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The Washington Post reports that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has submitted draft legislation to restrict the substantive and procedural rights of terrorism

State Democrats introduced legislation Monday aimed at restoring six weeks worth of unemployment insurance cut by the GOP-dominated legislature earlier this year. The legislation was introduced in the House by Rep

Two of the four challenges to political newcomer Alvin Greene’s claim on the Democrats’ South Carolina Senate nomination are DOA today. The first blow came

After the jump, the anti-health care mandate lawsuit introduced today in the Northern District of Florida by 13 state attorneys general. Only one, Louisiana’s

Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is more responsible for the current state of the economy, only 18

The Aug. 27, 2009 episode of Glenn Beck on Fox News was television beyond description. I’ll just focus on the closing segment. Beck, having spent four days

Few pundits had as much to lose from the passage of health care reform legislation as Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, whose 1993 memo urging

The New York Times gives high-profile treatment today to efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with a deluge of abandoned and vacant properties by literally shrinking

Cleveland--Here’s the deal with being from Ohio. Whenever I meet someone who’s been through the state, they always say they have relatives in Cleveland. I

Because servicers in the lending industry can make more money collecting delinquency fees on mortgages than by modifying loans, guess which road they are

Forgive me if I’m going over ground other people have covered, but as I was going through the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel torture memos for something else, I

One of the anti-abortion rights movement’s leading political fundraisers in 2010 has gone to the airwaves with one of Planned Parenthood’s most vehement

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March jobs report this morning and the news was a bit better than expected, with 216,000 new jobs created during the month and a drop of .1 percent in the unemployment rate. There was no drop in labor force participation, which indicates that this is a real drop in unemployment rather than a fake one.

It’s everything you’d expect an op-ed on a war written by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) would be: a call for

It appears that cap-and-trade legislation is turning out to be popular in the states of some conservative Democrats, according to a new poll that Democratic

The League of Conservation Voters today added California’s Proposition 23 to its Dirty Dozen list, the first time a the environmental group has placed a

Democrats face a tough choice: Spend $210 billion to fix the formula that governs payments to doctors under Medicare, or lose doctors’ valuable support.

This morning’s Senate panel hearing on the wide discrepancy between sentencing for crack and powder cocaine-related crimes offered the Obama administration its

With the enormously popular cash for clunkers program soon to exhaust its $1 billion allotment, the Senate on Thursday passed legislation providing an

Right. In Texas giving a commencement speech at A&M. As some folks are pointing out this morning, it brings to mind another time when Bush was reading to

Marc Ambinder has a seriously detailed curtain-raiser on a turf war that’s roiled the intelligence community for months. Dennis Blair, the director of national

Protesters at Saturday’s ICE/Corrections Corporation of America community meeting (Pic by Marcos Restrepo) Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis said at a recent community forum that his city does not have a vote in the decision to build a proposed immigration detention center in his area, but PolitiFact Florida rates his claim “mostly false.” PolitiFact writes that the town of Southwest Ranches penned the deal with the prison operator, and Pines didn’t get an up or down vote on whether the facility should be built. But it’s not as if Pines has been in the dark here. Ortis, along with the rest of the commission, voted to provide services to the prison in 2011.