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We are now eight months into the Obama administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development still doesn’t have an administrator. The vetting process

Tim Pawlenty is taking heat from the National Organization for Marriage for not signing the group’s pledge to oppose efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. On Thursday, the group announced that Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had all signed the pledge. But while Pawlenty has hesitated to take the pledge, he gave the Miami Herald a piece of his mind on gay marriage on Thursday

I detect some snark behind the reporting here: Obama sought Wednesday to cool that debate, staking out a middle position in an appearance with Canadian Prime

After being outmatched by John McCain on national security in 2008, Mitt Romney hopes to capitalize on the issue in 2012.

Ever since Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a congressional panel two weeks ago that he was cut out of the loop on reading would-be

In his first piece for The Washington Independent, political reporter Jeremy P. Jacobs asks, does Obama have a Jewish problem?

A new report shows that the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach metro area has the second highest income inequality in the country; the region is second only to New York City. The new report from the U.S. Census Bureau , which was released on Wednesday, analyzed which cities had the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor

Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) renewable energy standard, which is included as part of the broad energy bill the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

President Obama this afternoon spoke briefly from the Rose Garden about the tragedy that continues to unfold in Raleigh County, W.Va., where 25 miners were

Republicans have been thrilled that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is looking like a shoo-in for a Senate seat in the traditionally blue state of Delaware. Which

Add another cut to the already long list of health care services that Gov. Rick Scott vetoed last week: $1.8 million dollars in vaccinations for postpartum women on Medicaid

With just four days remaining until Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin, a new poll showed a markedly low percentage of

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping

Interesting nugget from Playbook this morning on Warren Buffett, legendary investor and longtime supporter of higher taxes for the very wealthy: Buffett, a

From The Los Angeles Times: The Commerce Department said today that the nation’s gross domestic product, or total goods and services produced, contracted in

Today, more stories are adding detail to the debate over whether Elizabeth Warren should become the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection

Christine Fair of RAND runs through some of the reasons why militancy has grown in Pakistan despite something like $10 billion in mostly military aid coming

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday shows that 66 percent of likely U.S. voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction; 27 percent are

It’s been partly necessitated by the fact that the lawmakers themselves delayed the effective date of their bill that would do the same thing. That is, both

Via Andrew Sullivan, the Anti-Defamation League has released a statement backing Sarah Palin and other conservative figures who have come out against the

On the House floor, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) just said he will introduce legislation that would prevent oil companies from claiming a tax deduction for oil