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The Anti-Defamation League is out with a statement shaming Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for bringing Nazi and Hitler comparisons into the debate on

The White House seems committed to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency approach -- and his most likely replacements share his outlook.

Republicans are pushing back against efforts by senior Senate Democrats to paint the Republican alternative energy bill as an oil industry bailout. Jim

Every four years there is speculation as to what might diminish Iowa’s first-in-the-nation’s caucus process, and this presidential cycle is proving no different with social conservative influence being held up as the latest danger. But two historic defenders of the state’s process say this threat, just like so many in years prior, simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny

The insurgents could respond by targeting the Pakistani army in Waziristan or sending fighters across the porous border into Afghanistan.

It’s no Washington secret that lawmakers voting against the the nation’s powerful gun lobby will likely suffer the National Rifle Association’s wrath come

A permanent resident alien from the Dominican Republic will not face deportation after being convicted in 2007 of passing out condoms in Minnesota brothels. Manuel de Jesus Familia Rosario has been a permanent resident in the U.S. since 1999, and entered a guilty plea in federal court in 2007 for aiding and abetting a conspiracy involving “importation into the United States of any alien for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose,” reports Court House News.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued today a second deepwater drilling moratorium, based on new evidence about drilling safety following a recent court

Via Taegan Goddard, Radio Iowa reports that Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) said during a town hall meeting Thursday that President Obama told him he would be

Refusal of an Iowa-based social conservative pledge was swift work for former New Mexico Gov.

One of the early casualties of massive budget cuts is state funding of nonprofit crisis pregnancy resource centers, according to the first draft of the Texas

As Congress jousts over the effectiveness of the stimulus package to stir economic activity, it’s worth noting that homeowners -- whose troubles are at the root

Until now, the Senate’s health reform debate has been largely partisan, with Republicans blasting the various reform bills as a step toward socialized medicine,

During the holiday season, we are reminded to spare a thought for the less fortunate among us. In that spirit of empathy, here are the ten least successful politicians of 2009.

Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council and an adviser to President Barack Obama, is stepping down at the end of the year. Here is the full

As of this point, ad spending by GOP allied groups is outpacing the spending of Democrat aligned ones by a ratio of about 6 to 1: Helped by looser fundraising

The Detroit City Council has approved a resolution calling for a repeal of the law that allows the governor to appoint people to take over local governments. On Tuesday the council approved language urging the people of Michigan to support the effort to repeal Public Act 4 — the Emergency Manager law.

Democrats have punted, at least for now, on voting on the Bush tax cuts. Rather than forcing moderate Democratic members to OK a tax increase for wealthy

Although Guantanamo Bay detainee Bahtiyar Mahnut has been invited, along with 11 more of his fellow Chinese Uighurs, to settle in the island nation of Palau, it