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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

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