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The American Principles Project has just launched ExpelJennings.org, a blog dedicated to ousting Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education via online

Cordlin Comer, a Grand Rapids area man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to failing to disclose his HIV positive status to a female sexual partner, faces less than a year in jail.

It’s looking that way. Observers had expected a drawn-out battle over Senate Democrats’ plans to overhaul the nations financial regulations in favor of more

Following conservative columnist Kathleen Parker’s call last week for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to step aside as the Republican vice presidential nominee,

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today -- four years after it was asked -- that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have more rights to information

Freed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee say they entered North Korea. Tom Ridge disputes information culled from the dust jacket of his new book. Is

It was a tough day to be Herbert Allison. The Treasury official charged with monitoring the $700 billion Wall Street bailout appeared Thursday before the

Conservative fire-starter John Ziegler, the radio host and producer of the pro-Sarah Palin movie Media Malpractice, got booted from a panel at this weekend’s

Joan Lowy talks to a spokeswoman for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) about his comment that President Obama’s support for legal abortion made him an enemy of

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another amusingly tone-deaf Harold Ford, Jr. interview. This one, in the New York Post, got me wondering whether Ford had New York

Brad Setser at Follow the Money gets it exactly right today: It looks like the U.S. government’s no-bailout policy lasted all of two days. Adding to that

The American Center for Law and Justice is the first conservative legal group (that I’ve seen, at least) to pivot to a full-out repeal campaign. From their

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John Hickenlooper is an officeholder and a politician and yet he is well liked among the public. According to a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling last

That’s what The Associated Press is reporting, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the investigation. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former

Related to our story yesterday about Wall Street firms acting only in the interests of shareholders, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) last week asked eight bank

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Paul Bedard talks with conservatives who are positively twitterpated with Liz Cheney and want her to launch a political career. She could start with a major

Audio smuggled out of the right-wing billionaire benefactor Koch Brothers’ secret meeting in Beaver Creek last month has made headlines for the red-meat rhetoric it captured and for identifying the high-profile attendees who sneaked in and out of the event. The fact that Charles Koch welcomed the crowd by referring to the coming presidential election as a Saddam Hussein-style “mother of all battles” is unsurprising but also unsettling– and not just because it’s an aggressive overstatement

Part 1: Foreign investors grow ever more nervous as the dollar drops relative to other currencies.

Yesterday, I highlighted the dark-horse campaign of Michael E. Arth for governor of Florida, pointing readers to the whimsical bio featured on his website. This