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This is not a tea party hangover, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony list. It is every piece of the conservative base--the Club for Growth, social conservatives, right to work, pro-lifers, everyone--coming together.

When the health care reform bill passed the House in November, I reported that anti-abortion rights groups thought they’d pulled a number on Democrats by

This was an extremely bad day for the Obama administration. Right after Obama’s Meet The Press declaration that he would not allow strategy to be driven by

The execution of Manuel Valle is set for Aug. 2, under the first death warrant signed by Gov

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- MSNBC reports that Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration has said it would cost $45 million to get copies of emails messages sent between her

The New York Times reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100

With the numerous appearances by McCain campaign staff and advisers today on the cable news channels -- and McCain himself scheduled to appear on all three

The No. 1 Story last night on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann was Late Night host David Letterman’s lambasting of Sen. John McCain, after the GOP

Over at the Middle East Report, Jason Brownlee critiques the Army’s new stability operations field manual as a bloodthirsty imperialist document. Over at Abu

<p>There isn’t much that’s &quot;average&quot; about the voters who showed up at this week’s <a title="Take Back America"

If the 5,000 plus demonstrators that marched to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation (MBA) annual meeting in Chicago on Monday are any indication, the city has had

Perhaps to make the point that it can be done without risking U.S. lives, the Obama administration announced it will transfer Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a

The parties involved in the lawsuit to block one of Florida’s “Fair Districts” amendments from taking effect gather in a Miami courtroom at 10 a.m. tomorrow to present their arguments.

As something of an addendum to the previous Iran post: Al Jazeera is hanging out with Mir Hossein Moussavi (I’m still hunting for the right style on spelling

But The Guardian’s Iran election page is auto-refreshing every minute to bring live updates. That’s definitely something I’m keeping open all day. Also, the

Sen. Barack Obama granted an exclusive interview to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night, huddling with the popular new prime time host in an appearance

Perhaps not as ironic as Politico’s Ben Smith makes it out to be, but Senate Democrats will vote Thursday on the DISCLOSE Act because a number of them will be

One reason why Republicans so often cite Rasmussen Reports is that other pollsters have consistently shown much more -- and more resilient -- support for

Cleveland blogger Bill Callahan follows another development in the foreclosure crisis hitting Cleveland and other cities in the Midwest. He illustrates the end

As he mentions in his Washington Examiner column this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared in a commercial about the environment with House

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Feb. 28, 2009. As Dave Weigel notes, the Tea

The New York Times’ Sunday lead editorial is devoted to how the new Obama administration can and should close down Guantanamo Bay shortly after Barack Obama

On the week of the one-year anniversary of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration bill -- which has provoked copycats throughout the country -- Republican