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At a press conference in Chicago this morning, President-elect Barack Obama responded to attacks from gay-rights advocates who say they his selection of Pastor

Matthew Yglesias and Jon Henke argue over whether the anti-spending Tea Party protests are astroturf — fake grassroots — because groups like

Ken Keen, a three-star Army general, was in Haiti on Tuesday at the U.S. ambassador’s office shortly before nightfall when the quake began. The ambassador’s

Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park (Pic via Facebook) Think Progress is reporting that just months after playing a lead role in the temporary shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Rep

This is a change in personnel, President Obama said, announcing Gen. David Petraeus’ takeover of the Afghanistan war, but not a change in policy. Yes and no.

Here’s a sterling example of how the fringe conservative Website WorldNetDaily, which has published more than 200 articles about Obama birth conspiracy

Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture has an astounding followup to Matthew Blake’s coverage of Congress tearing into the rating agencies on Wednesday. As Matthew

The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), has been added

The Democratic and Republican leadership elections are finally upon us, and it seems that most of the drama and uncertainty has already worked itself out well

In a startling new Pew survey, more than half of households say that within the past year a member of the household has been out of work -- up 15 percentage

According to Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the Eagle Forum, the conference drew its largest crowd in 38 years, signaling a surge of grass-roots enthusiasm for 2010.

In an appearance on Democracy Now! yesterday morning to discuss Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, I made the point that Abdulmutallab’s ability to board Northwest

Today, returned from the six-week August recess to vote on the state aid bill, House Democrats put forward legislation to create a fifth tier of unemployment

The announcement is the result of an Obama administration task force’s proposal -- first reported by The Washington Independent.

This revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s new book, nabbed by Paul Bedard, might shed some light on why Ridge passed on a 2010 U.S.

A statement by Dick Armey, the former U.S. House Majority leader from Texas, that only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members at Texas A&M brought in enough money to

On Friday, the news broke that hackers had obtained and released thousands of email exchanges between climate scientists at England’s University of East Anglia.

MarketWatch had some additional thoughts on Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s $300 billion plan to have the government buy up mortgages. People

Hmm, so it appears that Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special envoy to Af-Pak, is going to be the first administration figure to explore the

The key question about how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab retained his visa to enter the U.S. centers on the connection between the terror watchlist he was on and

The still-not-30 Weekly Standard editor Matthew Continetti, who penned a book about Jack Abramoff in 2006, is working on a campaign biography of Alaska’s

Frank Enten is a fixture at CPAC, a cheery military veteran with boxes and boxes of presidential and political memorabilia. Here was one of his display items

Since I’ve been singing the praises of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments all day, I leave this one to Colin Clark of DODBuzz: “I can tell