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Erick Erickson, in a show of serious ideological consistency, labels Rep. Parker Griffith’s party switch a huge blow to Obama and quickly puts the heat on the

The political wrangling over where Guantanamo Bay detainees are going to go is only getting more complicated -- and stranger -- as the president’s deadline for

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) plans to announce his pick for a temporary successor to late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) sometime between Friday and Sunday. In

Sen. John McCain has announced his intention to play on the U.S. women’s field hockey team in the coming Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The presumed

With Republican National Committee officials from all fifty states filing into their annual summer meeting today in Kansas City, GOP pollster Whit Ayres has

NASHVILLE -- Justin Elliot picked up on my observation that Joseph Basel was here at the National Tea Party Convention and wondered how Basel was allowed to

The explosive inspectors general report released on Friday makes one thing increasingly clear: the Bush White House knew that it was probably breaking the

Blogger Jordan Carmon catches Marco Rubio’s upstart Senate campaign putting together an ad against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) -- his opponent in the 2010 GOP

The FDIC’s attempt at mass restructurings of mortgages comes with risks -- and insiders are divided on the wisdom of the plan.

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared at a forum on Republicans and the Hispanic vote at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, getting a standing

I didn’t have it when I put my piece to bed last night, but here it is. It’s short and straightforward. Repeal only takes effect after the Pentagon working

Just in across the transom: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced a press conference with

The ongoing vaccines-cause-autism debate has taken a new turn recently. There’s really little left to be debated, since the scientific evidence has

Give this to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.): He wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t a good fit in President Obama’s cabinet. Gregg, of course, withdrew his

Yesterday Hamid Karzai offered Taliban leader Mullah Omar safe passage to Afghanistan for peace talks, a move that I considered a thrown gauntlet. Now Omar’s

Charter school magnate Clark Durant is trying to chip away at Pete Hoekstra’s massive lead in the race to take on Sen. Debbie Stabenow by comparing his primary opponent to the woman they want to replace. The Grand Rapids Press reports : Speaking to reporters at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Durant referred to the Holland Republican as a “partner” of U.S

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Predictably, it depends on whom you ask. The major corporate players in the spill were BP, which leased the well, Transocean, which operated the rig, and

No surprise that President Obama’s top economic adviser Larry Summers was among those gathered at today’s White House meeting with credit card executives. But

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- I don’t blog everything that Sarah Palin writes on Facebook, but her response to Vice President Joe Biden’s jab at her energy policy -- made