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Later today, the Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on House-passed legislation extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits through the

Obviously I don’t have any stake in the reputation-destruction fight going on in Politico between Bill Kristol and ex-McCain campaign foreign policy adviser

U.S. Rep.

Michael Mukasey, the highest legal official in the land: "the Vice President is obviously one of the close advisers to the president and is within the

In a message that Iraq Veterans Against the War is helping spread, two soldiers identified as serving with the company in Wikileaks’ Iraq video -- the one

Let’s be very specific about what we mean when we describe the troop increase that President Obama is expected to announce tonight. I see the headline of this

Last week, The American Independent reported on a policy within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “Project Gunrunner” program

Broward County construction workers who said Monday that they have not been paid for several weeks of work at a Fort Lauderdale building project are looking at their legal options to recover their wages.

Both the House and Senate bills include a strong new consumer financial protection agency and it will regulate them (payday lenders), one consumer advocate said.

The America’s Future Now! conference, organized by the progressive Campaign for America’s Future, kicked off in Washington today, and TWI’s crack video team

Gay-rights activists have long speculated that the Mormon Church was the primary benefactor behind NOM. But the Knights of Columbus disclosure shows the Catholic group played a pivotal role in funding NOM’s efforts to deny marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.

So reports Jeff Stein on his brand-new Washington Post intelligence blog: The Justice Department and Warren’s Florida-based attorney, Mark David Hunter,

Less than a day after Alvin Greene scored an upset victory in South Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary, the state party has begun a PR campaign to push him

Jeremy Scahill, the security company’s chief journalistic pursuer, reports: Sources close to Blackwater and its secretive owner Erik Prince claim that the

Ahh, the wisdom of Congress controlling the federal purse strings ... The House today is poised to pass legislation creating a special 11-member commission

This Web ad, now running on sites like National Review Online, caught my eye: Click and you discover that the meddling European is ... billionaire

Here is David Axelrod (PDF), speaking with CBS’s Bob Shieffer this weekend: BOB SHIEFFER: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse now we find that

According to Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo, Republicans and -- new development here -- Democrats are getting behind the idea of slowly raising the

PORTLAND, MAINE -- This morning, after spending some quality time in the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, with the former president and First Father

A statement from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on CNN’s John King USA received a great deal of attention in the blogosphere late Thursday night and Friday