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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters today that he supports the public option, which twice failed in the Senate Finance Committee

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is going on the air for his 2010 re-election campaign, running two minute-long ads. One image that jumps out, from the ad titled Hard

When last we checked in on New START, the text of the nuclear deal with the Russians -- which has not been released -- didn’t impact missile defense, according

Chris Simcox, the co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, is in D.C. this week -- he marched in the taxpayer march on 9/12, and he was working radio

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Blackwater-in-Afghanistan hearing is just getting underway, but here’s an early highlight, courtesy of the committee’s

Republicans: Obama is too distracted by domestic issues to keep the country safe. Looks like Dems will expedite health reform by forgoing a formal

Tommy Christopher interviews Dale Robertson, the Tea Party activist who became infamous after I published a photo of him holding a sign with the phrase

Bailout Nation turns to consumers today, as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson prepares to announce a new program to encourage lending for auto loans, student

A pair of campaign finance complaints against the National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council were dismissed by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Wednesday. Common Cause Minnesota had filed the complaints alleging that advertising by the two groups on an anti-gay marriage amendment in 2010 constituted lobbying. The board ruled that the ads were too vague to trigger the registration requirement for lobbyists

Republicans pick up 680 seats in state legislatures. Peggy Noonan calls Sarah Palin a nincompoop. Nancy Pelosi might try to be minority

Harry Reid thinks Kirsten Gillibrand is hot. Even her own ad-makers can’t spell Murkowski. Sarah Palin forgets ACORN no longer exists. Dating sites

An hour ago I mused about what the Club for Growth, which has spent over a million dollars opposing Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), might do about the latest poll

At least three senators agreed to back Elizabeth Warren. The Taliban exploits flooding in Pakistan. Chuck Schumer wants more credit from

The Obama administration has spoken out against the 2012 budget plan Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) presented last week. Over the weekend, Obama’s senior advisor

As the Senate race between Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina (R) narrows, abortion rights groups are throwing their weight

Harsh words for Chris Wallace. Michele Bachmann, lampooned in seeds. Is McDonnell getting Borked? Tom Ridge walks it back. Jenna Bush gets a new

Two of the president’s stated goals for this administration are to implement a cap-and-trade system and to make the U.S. a leader on climate change. He

The Aqua Buddha prank victim says attacks on Rand Paul raise legitimate questions. Mark Sanford is still dating his Argentinean former mistress. In case

Alvin Greene’s candidacy feeds into perceptions that South Carolina has become the car wreck on the American political highway. A battle looms over whether

The massive oil spill last summer that contaminated dozens of miles of the Kalamazoo river with crude oil, has resulted in U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St.