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Offices, stores and industrial buildings are all facing a perfect storm of increasing vacancies and a lack of capital with which to refinance their debt.

The New York Times reports that the draft U.S.-Iraq deal has U.S. troops pulling out of Iraqi "cities and villages" by June 2009 and combat forces

I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the

Anti-abortion measures are advancing in state legislatures all around the country. Here’s the latest: # Alaska: Legislators halt insurance program for low-income women and children.

Before James O’Keefe recorded his undercover ACORN videos he cut this Yes Men-ish video for Right.org, in which his Taxpayers Clearing House, mimicking the

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Toward the end of President Bush’s remarks today announcing his plan to throw GM and Chrysler a lifeline, he included a line about American workers. He

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee came under harsh criticism from the right for withholding his endorsement for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman

Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. Now that Sen. John McCain has officially lost the presidency, Politico reminds him that he still has an audit to look

Via The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of

In response to our earlier post indicating that Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) might harbor questions about President Obama’s citizenship, McHenry spokesman

Anyone who has ever been unemployed or underemployed (working part-time or freelancing when one needs full-time work) knows that it’s quite easy to get down

The Vet Voice Foundation has commissioned a rare scientific poll to survey military attitudes about the ban on open gay military service. It’s found broad and

Well, somebody’s making the best of the foreclosure crisis: Skateboarders are having a field day practicing in the empty swimming pools of foreclosed homes, the

In an interview with Matt Lewis, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) moves Ken Cuccinelli’s ball down the field, saying it won’t even be close on how

Politico’s Ben Smith reports: Reacting to a rising tide of anger from gay and lesbian supporters at a series of slights and deferred promises, President Obama

Responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Homeland Security today acknowledged 11 deaths of immigrants in U.S.

As Annie just reported, the House just passed a state aid bill that provides $16.1 billion in Medicaid funding and $10 billion to pay teachers’ salaries, much

UPDATE*: Aug. 8, 2011, 2 p.m. EST The Summer of Mercy 2.0 ended Monday morning with a final protest in front of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in

It’s angry Tea Party town hall month in America and, in Arizona yesterday, Senator John McCain got a taste of the kind of crazy that colored Colorado’s gubernatorial race last year.

Housing Wire weighs in today with a cautionary note on the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, making the same point we did in our pieces this week on loan