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When President Barack Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress to unveil steps for job creation and the economy, there’s only one thing he needs to remember: go big.

Interviews with Republican House candidates likely to win their elections next month reveal a wide array of ideas, but few specifics or substantial cuts.

During her stint in Florida this weekend, would-be GOP presidential nominee Michele Bachmann said that she would consider drilling in the Florida Everglades, so long as it doesn’t hurt the environment. But representatives for the Everglades Foundation say that such claims are not even viable, and will likely prove to be a “swing and a miss” for the Minnesota congresswoman. # “The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness.

A federal court on Tuesday ruled for the first time ever that the government cannot freeze an organization’s assets for suspected ties to terror financing

Just days after American Forces launched a targeted assault that killed Osama Bin Laden, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet asked nominees for counterterrorism posts in the Obama Administration how Bin Laden’s death would affect the flow of financing to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and how terrorist network overlap might complicate U.S

The Minnesota Independent reports that the Al Franken campaign has just claimed its first lead of the Minnesota Senate recount, by a margin of 22 votes. The

The tripartisan Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Senate climate squad made a splash this weekend with its decision to drop cap-and-trade from its (eventual) legislative

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, President-elect Barack Obama acted swiftly to fill three key

In July, single-payer health care advocates won a prominent victory when the House Education and Labor Committee approved legislation empowering states to adopt

A central component of Democrats’ health care reform plans would bring more people under the umbrella of coverage, but less clear is whether more patients would find treatment.

Philip “Flip” Benham, the recently convicted stalker of an abortion provider, has made his way to Orlando. # Behman and other protesters are currently holding a weeklong protest of abortion clinics in Orlando. Clinics in the area were given advance notice and a “who-to-watch-out-for” guide from an abortion rights group called Feminist Majority.

These days, in their efforts to patch together a bipartisan coalition to pass climate legislation, Democrats have been falling over themselves to kowtow to

I truly hope that CIA drones actually did kill Beitullah Mehsud. As leader of the Pakistani Taliban, he has a massive amount of blood on his hands. But I think

’We may at last be getting our Michael Moore. A virtuous Michael Moore!’

After you’re done with Daphne’s piece about legal tests for President Obama’s abandonment of torture, don’t miss Jane Mayer’s interview with White House counsel