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This morning, Peter Orzsag -- until recently, the head of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget -- made waves by publishing a New York Times opinion

Beneath breathtaking headlines, a number of news outlets are reporting this morning that House Democrats will include a public insurance option in the health

After months of haggling, the saga is over. Congress today voted to override the White House veto of legislation staving off a steep cut to doctors who see

The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habeas corpus

On March 11, President Obama issued a signing statement attached to an omnibus spending bill that qualified a small but important provision that would deny a

At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor most of

Few Republicans have had as much pull in past Iowa Caucuses as Steve Scheffler. Once an operative for the Christian Coalition in the 1990s, Scheffler broke from

A chorus of criticism has responded to Gov. Rick Perry’s alliance with the controversial American Family Association, and one Texas legislator is also voicing

Libertarian TV journalist John Stossel gives readers of Reason magazine a preview of his new series on Fox Business Channel. He confesses that he has a special

The White House announced Friday that it will nominate Thomas M.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has sent a letter to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the head of the Banking Committee and the architect of the financial

A fund created by the South Dakota Legislature in 2005 to defend a controversial anti-abortion-rights bill introduced that year is largely bankrolled by

If today’s confirmation hearing for Solicitor General-nominee Elena Kagan was a supposed trial balloon for the scrutiny of a possible Supreme Court

John, an eighth grader at the time, gives another student on school grounds a candy bar. He is spotted by a security guard and told he now faces suspension.

State Rep. Trudi Williams, R-Fort Myers (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) GOP state lawmakers will soon introduce a bill to eliminate regulations on the reclaimed water often used by Florida utilities — treating it as an alternative water supply owned by utilities, and not by the state. The chair of the House Select Committee on Water Policy, state Rep.

Even after McCain broke off his relationship with Charles Keating, his wife maintained a partnership with the disgraced financier in a real-estate development that netted her tax benefits and a profit.

At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim reports that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Greg Meeks (D-N.Y.) are attempting to insert an insurer-friendly change into

Glenn Beck, ardent supporter of the tea party movement, spent the majority of his speech at the Values Voter Summit Saturday attacking the Occupy Wall Street

This idea that voter discontent has left all incumbents vulnerable in November is a reporter’s dream. It’s clean. It’s easy. But is that really what happened

The oil industry is railing against a plan by President Obama to spend billions of dollars on new transportation infrastructure because the $50 billion proposal

Speaking with ABC News’ Sam Donaldson yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke described the recovery as “moderate-paced” and demurred on the