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Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), perhaps best known for threatening that his state may secede from the union, issued a press release today in which he declared Texas

It turns out, reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would be stripped of her ranking Republican spot on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced by a party-line vote Thursday legislation that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. All the the

It would be a mistake for Napolitano to resign. The GOP tries to score political points off the failed plane bombing. Cheney says Obama pretends we

It’s common to assert that the rise of cohabitation -- couples living together outside of marriage -- is a sociological phenomenon. Consider Michael Gerson: In

John McCain thinks Snooki is too good looking for jail. Michael Bennet doesn’t think Obama won him the primary. Rick Santorum rounds up donors for a

Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is weathering mounting allegations of sexual harassment linked so far only to his tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association, allegations tied to tens of thousands of dollars in payouts to his accusers. Republican voters, however, are mostly dismissing the story . They’ve filled Cain’s campaign coffers with more than $2 million since the story broke and they booed the CNBC debate moderators who tried to bring up the scandal during last night’s debate in Michigan.

Brian Beutler and Zachary Roth have the background on the man who murdered a security guard at the Holocaust Museum. Von Brunn, apparently a World War II vet,

Breaking away from their fiscal policy roots, tea party groups lately have been sinking their hooks into all matters of American policy, from collective

State Rep. Perry Thurston, D-Plantation (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep.

A prominent coalition of unions and environmentalists called today for passage of a renewable energy standard during the lame-duck session, but offered few

This afternoon, the Federal Open Markets Committee, the board of the Federal Reserve that determines monetary policy and interest rates, announced it has

Last week, we showed you a discussion of Elana Kagan’s upcoming confirmation battle in the Senate. Yesterday, top conservatives who work on Supreme Court

60 Minutes aired a program this weekend shedding light on one of the little-discussed and truly heartbreaking aspects of the country’s persistent economic woes: an epidemic of homeless schoolchildren.

State Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Palatka (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Palatka, will speak at an upcoming event for Personhood Florida, the group aiming to outlaw abortion and some forms of birth control in the state.

Last week, protesters with Occupy Tampa and Occupy Orlando were arrested.

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of

Current proposals could even prevent legal immigrants from obtaining health care.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has announced that he will travel to Phoenix to oppose Arizona Senate bill 1070 at a rally at the State Capitol this

Gates’ support will likely signal that the Obama administration’s gradual elimination of nuclear weapons is the new normal, not some wild-eyed progressive fantasy.

Despite the media and political attention paid to strategic default, we actually don’t know that much about it. The phenomenon is as old as the Great