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World magazine reports that Lynn Vincent, the Catholic publication’s features editor, will co-write Sarah Palin’s memoirs. I’m familiar with Vincent’s work from

As part of the war-funding deal reached yesterday between House and Senate negotiators, Detroit’s automakers found a $1 billion gift: The launch of a

The U.S. Department of Justice has one week to object to Texas’ new photo ID requirement at polling places, and a coalition of opponents to the new law made

Last week, we showed you a discussion of Elana Kagan’s upcoming confirmation battle in the Senate. Yesterday, top conservatives who work on Supreme Court

DAYTON, Ohio -- The Swamp’s Jill Zuckman reports a Republican source -- not the McCain campaign -- confirmed Sen. John McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah

Last night voters in Illinois’ heavily Democratic 5th congressional district voted in a primary for candidates to replace former Rep. Rahm Emanuel, now the

With all eyes trained on the elections today in Colorado (and to a lesser extent those in Connecticut, Georgia, and Minnesota), the start of early voting in

Last week, protesters with Occupy Tampa and Occupy Orlando were arrested.

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of

In the wake of Scott Brown’s astonishing Senate win in Massachusetts Tuesday, it seems that everyone has a theory about what message the voters in the Bay State

New research by the Center for Public Integrity has found that political action committees associated with the ethanol industry gave nearly $1 million to 200 Congressional candidates in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles. Included in that total was $37,900 to U.S. Sen

Gates’ support will likely signal that the Obama administration’s gradual elimination of nuclear weapons is the new normal, not some wild-eyed progressive fantasy.

When most people hear Watergate, after Nixon, the first two names that come to mind are Woodward and Bernstein. The two Washington Post reporters are largely

Speaking to the graduating class of 2010 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, President Obama laid out the broad themes of the National Security Strategy

Religious groups in Florida are still not pleased with the federal government’s decision requiring health insurers to cover birth control as a preventative service. Their objections come despite a provision that “allows religious institutions that offer insurance to their employees the choice of whether or not to cover contraception services.” # Yesterday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it would uphold the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include contraception in a list of preventative services. This means women will be able to receive birth control without having to make the co-payments usually required to get them.

Beneath breathtaking headlines, a number of news outlets are reporting this morning that House Democrats will include a public insurance option in the health

After months of haggling, the saga is over. Congress today voted to override the White House veto of legislation staving off a steep cut to doctors who see

At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor most of

Libertarian TV journalist John Stossel gives readers of Reason magazine a preview of his new series on Fox Business Channel. He confesses that he has a special

The White House announced Friday that it will nominate Thomas M.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has sent a letter to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the head of the Banking Committee and the architect of the financial