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As Obama’s approval rating has slipped beneath the 50 percent mark and stubbornly refused to climb back up, many candidates up for reelection in tight races or

Ahead of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resource request for the Afghanistan war, which should be finalized today-ish, Defense Secretary Gates is already settling on

According to Forbes magazine , Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is following the lead of Michigan Gov

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder has a wonderful catch. Take a look at these screen grabs from the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National

Don’t miss this excellent and heartfelt post from Brandon Friedman of VoteVets, the progressive veterans’ organization, going after the 1000 retired generals

While usually attendees at the annual Values Voter Summit focus on hot button social issues, this year the hotel buzzed with the 10th amendment and national debt.

Sharron Angle, the Nevada GOP’s candidate for Senate, is arguing that the government should cut unemployment benefits to get the jobless back to work. Angle has

This morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that President Obama will give a speech on financial regulatory reform from New York City on

Ken Timmerman of NewsMax asks the panel what Al Qaeda would look like if the surge in Iraq never happened and Al Qaeda was allowed to take over Iraq -- which

Following a classified briefing on the attempted car-bombing of Times Square for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the panel’s leadership said there

If you wanted to underscore the continuity in strategy that exists for Afghanistan and Pakistan now that President Obama has fired Gen. Stanley McChrystal,

Spencer sends over the story that General Motors has tried to keep quiet. Following Sunday’s Super Bowl, the automaker -- keeping with a marketing tradition

The crisis is no accident, experts argue, but instead represents a failure on the part of many states to build up a funding cushion during the good years that could see them through the bad.

Sen. Barack Obama reiterated his economic priorities in a major interview on NBC last night, telling Brian Williams that he is fighting for a bailout plan that

We ran a piece today touching on the difficulty of fixing an economy broken by the bursting of something as large as the recent housing bubble. That is, if the

The Obama budget outline balances a line that was widely applauded by Republicans from the president’s Wednesday night speech to Congress—“we will

Willie Bishop sits in a St. Charles County, Mo., jail awaiting trial on charges of recklessly and knowingly exposing some one to HIV. His act of exposure? The