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At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano whether Attorney General Eric

Afghanistan optimism: Catch it! “I still will tell you that I believe the situation in Afghanistan is serious,” said the commander, Gen. Stanley A.

Influence comes in many forms. Often, influencing the influencers is a smart strategy. Free food never hurts, either. The head of public relations for

Zachary Roth has the scoop on Dr. David McKalip, a conservative activist who opposes Democratic health care plans, who sent a Tea Party listserv a doctored

Franklin Roosevelt knew the Great Depression offered an opportunity to do more than rescue a sick economy. It was a unique chance to pursue a higher purpose for government -- to make life less risky for future generations. If Roosevelt is the standard, Obama will be judged not just on how he deals with the economic crisis, but on how he uses it.

Line-item vetoes combined with a lack of leadership by Gov. Terry Branstad have resulted in unmanageable situations for Iowa families, the unemployed and prison inmates and staff, a state union leader asserted Wednesday afternoon while calling on lawmakers to demand a special session to deal with the ongoing fallout.

The fringe right-wing Website that became a lot less obscure this year is out with a Top-10 list marking its groundbreaking reports. Five (and a half if you

This week, the National Association of Realtors announced that home sales in July slumped 27 percent to a 15-year low. The annual pace of sales for existing

Anti-abortion activist Gary Boisclair announced on Saturday that he is challenging Rep. Keith Ellison for the DFL primary

Scarce as the water is in West Texas today, the people charged with protecting western counties’ long-term supply can’t say for sure where it’s all going —

Ending increasing speculation about the fate of his controversial daily show at Fox News, Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he was ending his three-year run. The show will go off the air “later this year” according to a release

Here’s a copy of Rep. Eliot Engel’s (D-N.Y.) legislation that would prevent BP from claiming a $10 billion tax deduction from the cost of responding to the

The Boeing logo (Pic via yapastl.org) Gov.

Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post writes a curtain-raiser on the unveiling of a story I broke about the contours of the Obama administration’s new team for

As Obama’s favorability drops, critics are questioning the usefulness of his pledge of support for immigration reform. One Democratic aide told Time that

Afghanistan reporting appears to have ended in 2006 and in Iraq reports stopped in 2008.

Senate Democrats will continue their budget hearings into a second week, officials said Monday. Tuesday’s hearing will focus on property tax, which became a point of contention between Democrats and Gov

Some experts and politicians believe that the mark-to-market accounting rule is to blame for the financial crisis--and they want to modify it; opponents say that would cloud companies’ true financial health.

It’s looking more and more like the forged Kenyan birth certificate released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab