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We all know how this battle has played out in the past. Indeed, though the House easily passed a credit card reform bill in 2008 and again this year, Senate

Every city has its own variation of political scandal. In Los Angeles, it’s usually about complicated land grabs and water. Many people view

I first encountered former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) at a 2007 forum on, of all things, the media, at the 2007 Yearly Kos convention. (Starting in 2008, the

Sen. Barack Obama is tapping his sizable political cell phone network to help Hurricane Gustav relief. On Monday, he issued a personal plea via text message to

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used strong language Wednesday to describe Mexico’s struggle against its drug cartels, comparing it to an insurgency, even

I spent my morning attending the fifth birthday of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the management organization dedicated to marshaling the

DENVER--Tammy Duckworth -- Iraq war veteran, Illinois Veterans Affairs director, amputee and netroots favorite -- is smacking John McCain silly. She’s talking

Amid the Democrats’ boostering and the Republicans’ assaults on the final stimulus package, almost no one is focusing on a key part of the bill that will be

The Colorado Division of Wildlife is looking for two, maybe three potential Darwin Award recipients who bought hamburgers and cheeseburgers at the Burger King in Eagle on Wednesday and hand fed them to a mother black bear and her three cubs. “This is an extraordinary example of stupid and irresponsible behavior by people,” said CDOW northwest regional manager Ron Velarde, according to RealVail.com .

July is the bloodiest month for the United States in Afghanistan since the war began almost eight years ago. The entire defense establishment has warned that

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A boisterous, if not outright angry, crowd of about 100 people gathered in downtown today to protest government spending and high

And we’re underway. Hillary Clinton is gladhandling in the Hart Senate Office Buiding. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) -- who wanted to be where Clinton is this

Josh Rogin reports that multiple sources are saying Jim Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, is being headhunted for a position running Georgetown

I’m a little confused as to how you reason that a $663.7 billion defense budget that won’t be fully worked out until April sacrifices American primacy. I

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood looked a little out of his element last week, when he proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax on motorists as an

Although some in GOP politics have called her actions “ divisive ,” freshman lawmaker and tea party favorite Kim Pearson is only making good on a promise. Pearson, a Pleasant Hill Republican, taped a segment with faux Democratic presidential candidate and anti-abortion extremist Randall Terry this spring that spelled out her intentions toward the state political party and GOP lawmakers who did not live up to her level of conservatism.

The University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, which has a strong track record of finding evidence that exonerates people who were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, says they have found another innocent man in a state prison for the past 25 years. That man is Karl Vinson, convicted of raping a 9-year old girl in 1986.

Members of industry have long contended that environmental protections are incompatible with economic growth. That was one reason the Lieberman-Warner Climate

I’m still thinking about Sen. Ted Stevens’ farewell speech he gave on the floor of the Senate this morning. When he finished speaking, Stevens received a

At Tuesday night’s annual Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet, the Minnesota Independent was honored with three Page One Awards, including first place prize for “Best Independent News Blog.” In that category, judges wrote that the Minnesota Independent is “ easy to navigate” and offers “lots of supplemental information and good participation from readers.” Also taking home a first was photographer Kathy Easthagen for her photo essay about President Barack Obama’s 2010 rally at the University of Minnesota with then-candidate and current governor Mark Dayton (who gave the keynote speech at last night’s banquet).