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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is sitting down with reporters today at 10 am to defend herself against charges brought against her by the House Ethics Committee.

While his former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination will still be slugging it out in early primary states, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be wined and dined as a guest speaker on the annual cruise of the conservative National Review. The cruise will host guest speakers like former United States representative to the United Nations John Bolton, Star Tribune columnist James Lileks and former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed.

The pushback is unlikely to become what critics hoped it might -- a humbling moment.

VetVoice’s Brandon Friedman just got ahold of a wacky pitch to an ex-Army captain from a recruiter trying to get said ex-captain into a National Guard or

At The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz spares few words regarding his view of voluntary foreclosure freezes. Ritholtz says he never thought much of the idea in the

When a policy rollout begins with a series of misrepresentations, you just know that policy is totally superawesome and its architects have total confidence in

The latest Office of Legal Counsel torture memos released last week have led to calls for further investigation and criminal prosecution of former Bush

Ratcheting up the showdown between the Obama administration and the judiciary that began in March, the Justice Department on Friday insisted to a federal judge

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has released her language for the derivatives portion of the bill overhauling financial regulation. I’ve gone through the

In order to secure the passage of the Status of Forces Agreement, the Maliki government had to agree to a Sunni-driven demand for a popular referendum on

This week, the final U.S. Army brigade deployed to Baghdad as part of the troop surge returns to the United States. And that’s only appropriate, as the

Does anybody like the new Senate Finance Committee health care bill? White House searching for a way to strike back against smears. TWI rolls out a

The Baucus bill is the health insurance industry’s favorite. The solar industry is slipping away from the United States. Obama’s approval is below 50

For months, liberals have watched the Texas State Board of Education debate standards for new textbooks, with Gov. Rick Perry-appointed member Don McLeroy

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg was on the agenda to appear today before the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Attorney General Eric Holder just announced that he will seek the death penalty for the five 9/11 terror suspects. They will be tried in a New York federal

On Friday, I asked a Republican Hill staffer what had been happening with Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) high-profile effort to re-brand* the Republican Party since

The trouble facing Democrats as they continue to push for health care reform is that, in a country of roughly 300 million people, almost 260 million already

Adam Gadahn, the California metalhead (really!) who became al-Qaeda’s first American citizen recruit, has been apprehended in Pakistan. In 2006, the Bush