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In the dull drone of a late Friday afternoon in Washington in August -- you know, when absolutely nothing happens? -- FBI Director Robert Muller called Bill

A bill that would commit California’s 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote (NPV) in presidential elections was signed into

New narrative alert: Sen. Barack Obama will win this election -- in a landslide. But wait, weren’t all the experts and pundits worrying about Obama’s demise

I don’t want to write too much that steps on the toes of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s forthcoming confirmation hearing to head the State Department, but take a

True fact: talk to the advisers to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 60-day strategy review on Afghanistan and they say that they’re attuned to an erosion of support

In the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, no endorsement is considered more important than that of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). Slate and former Washington

Public Policy Polling has proven, once again, that one in five Americans will signal their belief for just about anything. The group’s poll today notes that

There’s a new meme in the presidential race: The Internet is helping expose dirty tricks, enhance campaign accountability and punish the purveyors of

Michael Patrick Leahy, one of the men behind Top Conservatives on Twitter (#TCOT) and a leader of the anti-spending Tea Party movement, is planning to attend

A spokesperson for TransCanada just gave a little more detail on the company’s plans to withdraw its special permit request to pump oil at a higher pressure

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) has now distanced himself even further from state Republicans, this time by wading into a contentious battle over dueling

Earlier today I wrote about a new Republican National Committee fundraising website called No More Frankens, which says, We now know that Republicans should

This is a deeply strange story, ably picked apart by the smart conservative blogger Ed Morrissey. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has been making the rounds today

Former Vice President Al Gore is honored by the blowback he received after he blasted climate change deniers with a certain eight-letter epithet during an off-the-cuff speech last month in Aspen. “There’s a long tradition of people who don’t like a particular message turning to attack the person delivering the message,” he said on NPR’s Talk of the Nation today

Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the recommendations as part of a minimum swath of services.

A new law that was passed on the last day of Alabama’s legislative session may intensify the effects of the immigration law on immigrant and Hispanic tenants.

Few would argue that, if the Newsweek report is true, Eric Holder is unqualified for the post of attorney general in the Obama administration. After all, Holder

58 percent of New Mexico teachers are white, despite minorities constituting an overwhelming majority of the state’s student body. The findings come out of a set of reports published by a Washington, D.C. think tank that examined the dearth of minority teachers in states having a student body less than 50 percent white

While all the attention in Colorado seems to go to Occupy Denver, it is not the only occupation in the state. People have been occupying Acacia Park in Colorado Springs for more than two weeks now, so far without an arrest. “They’ve issued warnings about tents, and we have had private property offered to us, but so far we’ve decided to stay here,” one woman told The Colorado Independent.

This week Mother Jones released a story linking anti-abortion rights group Americans United for Life with the three similarly-worded justifiable homicide

This week the United States suffered its 4,000th military death in Iraq. That number will surely increase, as violence is now exploding across the country.