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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has a lot to gain but also a lot to prove in Iowa between now and the Jan. 3 caucuses, political observers say. Cain has surged in the polls in recent days, moving in closely on perceived frontrunner Mitt Romney while other candidates have fallen behind.

Newt Gingrich, the former GOP Speaker of the House is worth following on Twitter tonight. Example: Nobody messes with joe and the smiles and nancy handshake

Mostly via the blogging of Jim Geraghty, I’d become intrigued by Fred Tausch, a wealthy conservative in New Hampshire who has spent $400,000 on advertisements

A Detroit non-profit has created an interactive guide to 13,000 tax delinquent city properties that will be offered for sale by Wayne County at an online auction scheduled for later this month.

A friend passes on this high-quality video of Rand Paul’s closing statement at a candidate forum for Kentucky U.S. Senate candidates. If you’ve watched enough

The Republican National Committee has a new website making appeals for its Get Out the Vote Program, and the message is entirely designed to play into the

Here’s Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy and a co-chairman of the Af-Pak review. That review went back to first principles --

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) on Fox News this morning, explaining why the House needs to pass his Iranian solidarity resolution: The President has the right to

Rep. Parker Griffith’s (D-Ala.) comment that he wouldn’t support Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in another vote for Speaker of the House has been manna for the

From a pool report: We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran and obviously, after the speech that I made in Cairo, we

Classified for years -- and still heavily redacted -- here is former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s 2004 report into the CIA’s Bush-era interrogations

Feeding into right-wing hysteria, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Ginigrich told a tea party audience in Orlando this month that if he were elected president, one of his very first executive orders would be cutting funding to the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world. The initiative is a non-binding program that provides local communities that seek to grow in a manner that is kind to the environment with resources such as grant and conference announcements.

Underfunded, understaffed and riddled with gaps, Iowa’s mental health system is broken. Such is the dismal assessment of advocates, state and county officials and families who have sought care

For more than a year, conservative journalist Jack Cashill has argued that a textual analysis of Dreams From My Father reveals that it was ghostwritten for

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) just unveiled their much-anticipated climate and energy bill and expressed optimism that they had the

Ohio voters went to the polls yesterday for the first day of early voting, exercising a right in Ohio that the state’s Republicans had fought hard to

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) asked why the Taliban won’t simply reconstitute itself in the parts of Afghanistan that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s population-security

Conservative activist David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend, a pricey four-day Palm Beach celebration of conservative ideas, just wrapped up. I wasn’t there, but

There are two ways to read this quote that Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) gave to Josh Rogin: The troop numbers are only one piece of a much larger set of policy

The BBC reports that it’s confirmed with the International Committee of the Red Cross that U.S. military officials in Afghanistan have notified it of a

A month ago, House leaders were forced into a corner by conservative Democrats insisting that health reform legislation include language prohibiting abortion

The Sacramento County Republican Party just took down inflammatory material from its website that urged readers to waterboard Barack Obama and stated that