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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

Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit: Today in Washington, some are promising that

Pressed by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) on his view of whether the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was illegal, Attorney General Eric

Now that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is safely ensconced in his job for five and a half years, more videos from his earlier, funnier career are starting to leak

I just spoke with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who’s now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and asked him whether the party should

Are you good looking enough to be in MTV’s audience for the Obama town hall? An anti-abortion group runs ads against the wrong Salazar brother. Don’t

One very very large reason for the decline in violence in Baghdad in the latter half of 2007 was radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s decision to have his

We all had a good laugh yesterday when State Department spokesman Robert Wood refused to say which countries fell under the purview of Dennis Ross, the Special

This is a Slate piece about Liz Cheney -- daughter of Dick and a former State Department official -- and what her senior undergraduate thesis on executive power

The planned federal economic stimulus package will include billions of dollars for transportation and infrastructure programs, much of which will ultimately be

This was inevitable. Despite unanimous opposition from House Republicans to the Democrats’ $787 billion economic stimulus plan, members of the GOP are now

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 extraordinarily comprehensive bankruptcy examiner’s report on Lehman Brothers is the gift that keeps on giving to financial reform advocates, above and

Following up on my item earlier today, a source inside the VA tells me that the pulled copy of a guide to living wills that’s been made available to veterans

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- Marc Ambinder today posted on something reporters on the McCain plane have been talking about for the last few days. As we previously noted,

DAYTON, Ohio -- After finishing an education address that was supposed to drive his campaign message today, Sen. Barack Obama tacked a press conference onto

It’s so dry it borders on passive-aggressive. Immediately following the attempted attack, Director Blair initiated reviews to identify -wide shortcomings and

Conservative data hound Matthew Vadum shows how several left-leaning groups, such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, were bilked by the just-convicted