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Joe You lie Wilson may have done Obama a big favor. And not just Obama; Wilson’s opponent raised $100,000 overnight. But Erick Erickson calls Wilson a

You would think, given that Congress just passed a nearly $800 billion stimulus bill and there is already talk of a second stimulus bill in the near future,

Hispanic students graduate from college at a lower rate than white students at all levels of college selectivity, according to a new report from the American

<p>In a stump speech today in Iowa, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee tried to bring the world issues of the day home to the people of Pella by linking

The FreeRepublic.com forums have been roiled by conservative activists debating whether or not the Kenyan certified copy of registration of birth released by

It looks like Gov. Bill Richardson’s (D-N.M.) troubles might be getting a bit worse. Richardson is currently entangled in a federal pay-to-play investigation in

Incumbents and establishment candidates got an expected run for their money during Tuesday’s primaries, but for the most part, challengers did not manage to

Buoyed by President Obama’s executive orders and presidential memoranda renouncing excessive government secrecy last week, advocates are pushing the new

A plan to insert the right to carry a concealed weapon across state lines has the support of some gay rights advocates.

The Senate, which overcame a meager attempt yesterday by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) to stop Chris Hill’s nomination to be ambassador to Iraq, just voted to

The Washington, D.C. tea party is underway! Several hundred intrepid protesters turned out in the rain to voice their opposition to taxes, bailouts, the Obama

It’s time for a post-White House press conference listicle. 1. Unity, Stand Together as One. The priority message that I will take back with me to the

Looks like all the paperwork’s been filed. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has set CIA Director-designee Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing for Thursday at

COMMENTARY Among the many sorry gifts George W. Bush passed on to President Barack Obama, the next prime minister of Israel is among the most dubious.

Confounding some of their early findings last night, the Public Policy Polling survey of South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district finds that voters have

In the culmination of today’s big push from activists to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the White House budget director, Peter Orszag, has written a (rather

... Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, who has mastered the art of making full-bore partisan attacks in the measured tones of

House Democratic leaders just started a series of procedural votes leading up to what they hope will be passage of sweeping legislation extending a number of

As if this day wasn’t bloody enough already: twin car bombs detonating in a west Baghdad bus station have killed 26 people at least. If I’m not mistaken, that

As I mentioned, Marcy has a question about something from retired FBI agent Ali Soufan’s op-ed in The New York Times. Soufan’s whole op-ed is about how a joint

According to this account from The New York Times, while Taliban forces were launching attacks in Kabul, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s special

The scandal threatens to bring the housing market to a standstill and wipe out banks’ bottom lines, possibly necessitating another bailout.

After Philip Zelikow, a former aide to Condoleezza Rice, disclosed yesterday that he wrote a memo in 2005 dissenting from the Office of Legal Counsel’s embrace