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The presser is still going on, but here’s Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ statement about what defense programs he’s cutting, halting and continuing. Big news:

NASHVILLE - At an alternately blunt and blustery press conference, National Tea Party Convention organizers Judson Phillips and Mark Skoda declared that they

The 2012 nomination calendar appears to have once again survived various states jockeying for position, but the drama isn’t quite over. Speaking with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl , Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus indicated there would be no forgiveness for Florida’s 2012 leap-frog that tossed the calendar set by the national political parties into chaos.

Livonia Congressman Thaddeus McCotter says he is seriously considering a run for the presidency. McCotter made the comment in an interview with Politico. He says the current crop of candidates aren’t lighting any fires in the GOP base.

Just released from the Senate Armed Services Committee staff: Today’s Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the shooting incident at Fort Hood, Texas,

Over at The New Republic, Noam Scheiber counts the votes for Elizabeth Warren, the current head of the Congressional Oversight Panel over the Troubled Asset

In its latest appeal for donations, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is calling on supporters to fund a new campaign that targets U.S. Rep. Ileana

Iowa politicians from across the spectrum agree religion is exploited for political gain. Faith plays an important role in politics across the nation, but maybe more so in Iowa.

I dunno, Weigel. You say it’s hard to argue with the contention that Facing a leftist American administration is nothing in comparison, for instance, to

According to The Hotline’s latest whip count, Michael Steele continues to fall behind former Wisconsin GOP chair Reince Priebus in his bid to maintain his

The Occupy Columbus movement left a small contingent at their forward operating base, located on a busy downtown street directly in front of the Statehouse, as

Today, Senator Mark Udall called for the prosecution and/or firing of those involved in the improper handling of the remains of service men and women by the Dover Air Force Base.

Alex Pappas reports: The Republican National Committee is paying for signs and political buttons used by Tea Party groups — despite widespread disagreement

Cindy Golding, the Republican candidate in a special election for Senate District 18, raised $42,038 from Oct. 15 to Nov.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to take a second look at the case of a Canadian citizen interrogated by the U.S. in Syria.

The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in

Our old colleague Daphne Eviatar, now with Human Rights First, takes to Firedoglake’s Seminal diaries to make the case toward which Eric Holder is inching

No shocker here. It’s not just the gay and lesbian community that’s going after President-elect Barack Obama for his choice to have Rick Warren, the socially

Keying off the rumors that Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens may retire, I asked Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, the group that

The least complex explanation for derivatives, and particularly the credit default swaps that drove this financial crisis, is that they are a form of

The highway connecting Tampa, Lakeland, Daytona Beach and Orlando may be the most important political real estate in the nation because it holds the key to the biggest chunk of independent voters in the biggest of all battleground states. These voters’ anxieties and financial troubles have now pushed the Democratic nominee ahead of his Republican rival in the polls there.