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Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as

So much for John Brennan, the former CIA official who wasn’t actually an advocate of torture but who was pilloried for being so in the blogosphere. The

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Democrat Kathy Hochul is reportedly streaming ahead of Republican Jane Corwin in the Buffalo-area special election that has been marked out as a first test of the controversial GOP congressional budget plan crafted by Paul Ryan that seeks to “save” Medicare by turning it into a voucher system. Hochul hammered on the Ryan Medicare plan and Corwin defended it mostly by backing away from it. “Just for the record, I am not decimating Medicare!” she told seniors in the aging upstate district

Gov. Sarah Palin will need to appeal to independents and moderates if she hopes to pull off a win for Republicans in four years.

Marc Ambinder previews the Obama surge in seven bullet points. But it’s not really a surge, is it? Keith Olbermann says declare victory and get

A raft of school-choice legislative activity is at play in the Pennsylvania General Assembly with three education voucher proposals coming out of the House in

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial unemployment insurance claims declined to 457,000, from 468,000 last week. The moving average

Retreat is not an option, says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). We must continue to drill.

Testing conducted by Halliburton weeks before the Macondo well blowout indicated that the cement to be used to secure the well casing was unstable, staff for

I caught up with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) at the How to Take Back America Conference to follow up on an issue that had come up there: defunding the Left.

In the summer of 2008, with gas prices through the roof and Republicans calling for an expansion of offshore oil drilling, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

House members on health care: Who’s undecided and why? Boehner: If I am speaker, I will run the House differently from both Dem and past GOP leadership. Key

Democratic Populism is all the rage. As we enter the final phase of the caucuses and primaries, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama

The problem is this: The health reform bill to be taken up by the Senate Finance Committee this week requires that nearly everyone have insurance coverage, but

The Associated Press has been digging into Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to find some astonishing examples of ethically questionable

A group of local pastors and the Lansing branch of the NAACP held a press conference today inside a Lansing courthouse to raise some serious questions about the fatal shooting of a 17 year-old girl in March by a Lansing police officer. The shooting took place in the early morning hours of March 14th at a South Lansing Bank of America

After announcing Wednesday that the “smoking jalapenno ” had been found on a farm in Mexico, witnesses at a hearing Thursday continued to dance around the

White House: Decision to appoint new social secretary will not affect donors’ access to lawmakers. Liz Cheney’s group attacks lawyers defending Gitmo