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Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) asked Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal how he views the strategic importance of reducing civilian casualties and how he intends to reduce

The Jacksonville-based First Coast Tea Party will host a rally on Sun., Nov. 6, to ready participants for the “march to November 2012.” In an article published at Florida Political Press , First Coast Tea Party organizer Billie Tucker writes that the “Rally to the Right” will include a “Tea Are the World” concert, and an appearance by would-be Republican presidential nominee Rick Santorum. Former Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell and ACORN whistleblower Anita Moncrief will also speak at the event .

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) -- who apparently woke up this morning and said to himself, Today, I’m going to make some news -- told reporters

As co-chair of the House Medical Technology Caucus, U.S. Rep.

It’s become rare lately to hear any anti-abortion argument without also hearing the words eugenics, Margaret Sanger and genocide. In the past few years,

Here’s one interesting tidbit from today’s conference call on the deepwater drilling moratorium. Even though the administration has decided to lift the

Controversial political stalwart Karl Rove said that he doesn’t think Iowa and New Hampshire Republican voters need worry about Democratic infiltrators in upcoming primaries or caucuses — at least not as long as the Obama 2012 campaign is being led by a nobody. Rove, who served as a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W.

Quality preschool, including easy accessibility to it, is key for any state’s quest to reform education and be a frontrunner in the classroom, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a Monday morning keynote on the first day of the Iowa Education Summit , and Iowa is no exception. “A commitment to free public preschool will pay off for Iowa,” Duncan said, amid applause.

A May 2009 video of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman praising Van Jones, which was posted by TWI yesterday, has inspired a parody video from the

I think it’s a bit above my pay grade to speculate on the broader sociological meaning of this. But for what it is worth, the arrested subject of this past

Christine O’Donnell, a longtime conservative activist who took on the thankless task of challenging Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) in 2008, is running against Rep.

The controversial Radiance Foundation is still dissatisfied with a recent NPR interview with its founder, Ryan Bomberger. Since the July 18 airing of the interview on Tell Me More , Bomberger has maintained that NPR heavily edited his portion of the interview, while preserving the words of pro-choice Rev.

GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner (right), in a 2009 photo (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) GOP Senate hopeful Adam Hasner called Occupy Wall Street supporters all over the country “anarchists,” “extremists” and “thugs” in an email to supporters today.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the self-described (sort of) freedom fighter against the Democratic majority, is rolling out the latest of his hard-right economic

It is quite striking to watch Sen. John McCain take a downright populist tone as he champions stronger regulation as several financial giants teeter on the

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Tomorrow is (probably) going to be Nuke Day in Washington, as the Obama administration releases its long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review. That’ll tee up

Andrew Ackerman at the Wall Street Journal parses the jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and finds that a full one million Americans exhausted their jobless benefits in the past year. About 8.2 million idled workers were receiving unemployment benefits as of the week ended April 9, the Labor Department said in its weekly jobless claims report.

Politico reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) chief of staff Michelle Marston is stepping down. Multiple sources have confirmed that Michelle

Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the oil pipeline break that spilled about 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the

Just an addendum to Dave’s insightful post: when you see conservatives lauding President Obama’s Nobel speech or his Afghanistan policy by, say, comparing