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Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team

About sixty percent of donations to Sarah Palin’s PAC went to consultants instead of candidates or campaigns. Democrats can’t find a GOP co-sponsor for

After challenging businesses across the country to submit some of their biggest regulatory gripes, Rep.

Senate Democrats this morning tried to pass a 30-day extension of unemployment benefits (among other things), designed to allow the upper-chamber more time to

Conservative media personality and editor of the blog RedState Erick Erickson wants his readers to send Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a toy

Rush Limbaugh will play himself on this weekend’s Family Guy. Newt Gingrich’s group spends $2.2 million on chauffeurs and private flights. Rahm Emanuel

Glenn Greenwald is doing some good work right now, following up on a post about the 2004 frenzy over MoveOn.org’s Bush in 30 Seconds contest -- when a few

The state Senate wrapped up the last of their budget bills yesterday and the House is expected to take up and vote on their remaining bills today, months before the end of the fiscal year for the first time in decades.

Reading The Washington Post’s write-up of Adm. Mullen’s call for a second U.S. troop deployment in Afghanistan this year, this poll figure stands out: the

NASHVILLE -- WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it

Legislators consider defining foreign in campaign finance law. Starting next month, a government program will help underwater homeowners via short

Sam Stein at Huffington Post reports that a high-juiced Dem official says Jim Steinberg -- he of the quality bartending skills -- may become Hillary Rodham

A single mother is in the media spotlight after joking to Obama that he is a hottie, with a smokin’ little body. Sarah Palin will be the top speaker at the

Activists are taking issue with a plan being negotiated between BP and the Obama administration for feeding the fund meant to compensate victims of the oil

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At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the Tea Party movement could help Republicans from moving too far to the

The national media remains abuzz with discussions of sexual harassment allegations made previously against presidential candidate Herman Cain and it now seems Cain may have acted in a manner that resulted in women at a Des Moines radio station feeling uncomfortable. Politico broke the story of the transgressions that allegedly took place while Cain served as the head of the National Restaurant Association, and has been following developments in the story closely throughout the week.

After a British court ruled that the U.K. government has to disclose sensitive information about how the United States tortured a British citizen named Binyam

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination: As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a

There is a new buzz in the roadless debate. Charlie Berger, owner of Denver Beer Co., this week called on Congress to strengthen protections of public lands in light of the U.S. Forest Service’s deliberation of a new state-specific proposal to manage forests and attempts by Republican lawmakers to roll back wilderness and roadless area protections

Here’s one way to eliminate conflicts of interest. The Obama administration has in mind to carve up the Minerals Management Service, a branch of the Interior