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The Department of Transportation just sent out some updated figures on the vehicles being scrapped and purchased under the popular cash for clunkers program,

As the polls open in Florida, political pundits agree that turnout could be the key to determining who walks away with the GOP governor’s nomination: Will

As Daphne blogged, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- the terrorist organization’s Yemen-based franchise -- claimed credit for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s

Democratic Virginia blogger Ben Tribbett has video of Catherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for delegate — whom we last saw accusing the government of

As Congress prepares to consider a series of consumer-friendly finance reforms, some minority advocates, researchers and lawmakers are pointing to a trend as another reason the reforms are urgently needed.

Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) just completed a week-long raid that nabbed 2,901 foreign nationals with criminal records living in the United States, 36 of which were apprehended in New Mexico. KRQE Channel 13 News has the scoop on the criminals in New Mexico: Exactly half of the 36 arrests in New Mexico were for drug related offenses, 11 were for violent crimes and one person arrested is a sex offender. The remaining offenses involved property crimes and D.W.I

Even if he doesn’t raise a dime from his political allies, Dick Cheney is well positioned to continue speaking out against the Obama administration’s national security agenda.

Marcy Wheeler may have solved a mystery about the previously unacknowledged CIA enhanced interrogation technique of prolonged diapering. I wondered in my

According to a recent report released by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured , about 76 percent of the 49.1 million uninsured people in the United States come from working families. The report (.pdf) explains that most uninsured workers tend to be self-employed or work for smaller companies.

Looks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., has lost some of his authority to arrest people he suspects are illegal immigrants. Under the

Victoria McGrane takes stock of the libertarian/liberal coalition against Ben Bernanke getting a second term at the Federal Reserve, reporting out some of the

State of Play: Obama’s New Pastor Problem Just as Sen. Barack Obama thought he had weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright storm, another Chicago clergyman has

Today’s the deadline for Iran’s leadership to embrace or reject the deal its negotiators endorsed in Vienna to ship uranium out of the country for enrichment

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann shared her vision of an aggressive foreign policy, which she said would return the nation to its proper role as leader of the free world, at the annual convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis Thursday.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy wasn’t the only Obama administration official who addressed the American Enterprise Institute this

Blogger Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft makes a great point this morning, writing that the Supreme Court under Chief Judge John Roberts has been an activist

In this corner: Christopher Hill, the Obama administration’s choice to become ambassador to Iraq; Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign