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Via Ben Smith, it seems meaningful that Sarah Palin’s camp explained her decision not to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference with two

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.

Rassmussen Reports, the pollster whose surveys of likely voters most often show the worst numbers for President Obama and the Democrats, finds support for

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is asked by Fox News whether his RNC would support primary challengers to the moderate Republican

WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being

It’s not quite like naming an aircraft carrier after a recently retired chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, but creating an Ike Skelton Chair of

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

In a tweet sent out this morning, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, says that the EPA must stop using “activist/ junk science or lose their funding.” According to his Twitter account, Ross will be meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, one-on-one. Jackson has been criticized for her role as the head of the agency now often deemed a “job killer” and has been especially scrutinized for her role in a set of numeric nutrient criteria that are mandated for the state of Florida.

The private security company, renamed Xe Services, objects to my use of the verb stole to refer to the guns it got from the U.S. military in Afghanistan in

This took pretty much forever. Rumor has it -- and it’s pure rumor, but blog-worthy rumor -- that there was friction over making former Clinton administration

Sen. John Kerry urged President Obama to endorse a campaign targeted at the Pashtun areas of south and eastern Afghanistan, provided that the U.S. could also boost civilian governance and development projects to consolidated military success.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) gets his first good news in a while with a Quinnipiac poll that has him recovering a lead over Pat Toomey, the GOP candidate who

The African-American singer who rode the Tea Party Express and songs like American Tea Party Anthem to a strange sort of fame has spoken out on Kanye West’s

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services committee, told Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry that he’s been long

A year ago, blogger Michael Shedlock pronounced Citigroup insolvent. No one paid much attention then, but Shedlock never wavered. Now the U.S. government is

Today’s news that Obama administration officials are touring a Michigan prison as a possible alternative location for detainees now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay

Here’s an unlikely endorsement: former Independent Counsel Ken Starr -- who spent much of the 1990s investigating President Bill Clinton -- is backing Harold

With midterms fast approaching, most eyes are trained towards Congress and the question of which party will grab a majority of seats. But, as the New York Times

The following quote was emailed to me by Matthew Alexander, the pseudonym of a military interrogator and vocal torture opponent who helped track down Abu Musab

An Internet firestorm swiftly engulfed Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, as reporters and bloggers laced into his campaign’s false claim that McCain’s tenure on the