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More on Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.). While he might be the darling of Sarah Palin and Tea Party groups in today’s Kansas GOP Senate primary, they can’t be

Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced an energy tax incentives bill that they are urging the Senate to pass before the end of

The thought of Vice President Dick Cheney in a form-fitting bat costume might be too much for most people to bear. But the concepts of security and danger

Looks like he was for him before he was against him. Billionaire Jeff Greene, who will reportedly announce his Democratic candidacy for Florida U.S. Senate

For some reason MSNBC just had Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) on to talk about the fringe House Republican demands for Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Here’s a little fuel to the rumors that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is looking at a return to politics, including a possible 2012 run for president. The

The 15 banking CEOs who met with President Obama today in Washington head financial institutions that spent at least $45 million on lobbying in 2008, and gave

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings faces an ethics investigation stemming from sexual harassment allegations: # It began at least a month ago after Judicial Watch, a conservative group, filed a lawsuit as the legal counsel for Winsome Packer, a staffer on a commission Mr.

I wrote last week about how some members of the Get Afghanistan Right coalition were working to support a blogger to write frequent critiques of the Afghanistan

Tonight’s State of the Union address will likely be full of many showy bipartisan moments. President Obama will likely make a number of statements about

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The Obama administration is considering stripping the Securities and Exchange Commission of some its oversight powers, and shifting that responsibility to the

I can’t be the only person to have winced a little at this color in Joseph Curl’s ultra-sarcastic write-up of a speech by Vice President Joe Biden. Mr. Biden

In the course of a piece I’m proud of about David Kilcullen’s forthcoming strategy-level counterinsurgency handbook, I included a profanity-laden quote from him

The Washington Post reports this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin frequently billed the state a per diem -- meant to cover travel expenses on official

Georgia’s immigration-enforcement law H.B. 87, effective today, is being met with protests in Atlanta, while protests against new immigrant detention centers will take place in Miami and other U.S. cities

With the expected announcement of the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, a Republican-driven hysteria is virtually

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a long-time abortion rights advocate, is predicting that a controversial amendment restricting abortion coverage that passed the