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When partisanship curdles into the malleability of the truth, you get former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Good Morning America: “What he should be

He didn’t get as much coverage as, say, Dick Armey, but 2009 was a very good year for one of the more ambitious figures in conservative politics, Wayne Allyn

A federal judge late last week signed off on a deal struck between the WildEarth Guardians environmental group and the U.S.

This morning, I attended a panel called Can Conservatism Survive Mass Immigration? The question posed to the panelists, most of whom were conservatives, is

Earlier today, the Israel Project -- a pro-Israel organization that endorses tough measures against Iran’s nuclear program -- sent out a release announcing

“Save America.” That’s the goal of a right-wing convention starring Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano and former presidential candidate and U.S. Rep

That would be former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.). Via Ben Smith, Thompson says the problem with the Afghanistan war isn’t the seven years that the Bush

As I report in my piece on Pakistan this morning, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is taking pains to avoid demand a sovereign country, say, go after the Afghan

Weekdays at 5 p.m. is a sacred time of day for defense reporters, and not just because of the promise of imminent alcohol. Come rain, shine or economic

Just released from the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dr. Raj Shah is a leader in the development community, an innovative and results-oriented

Here’s what an anonymous Republican aide told Greg Sargent about the politics of escalation in Afghanistan: “There better be a hell of a compelling reason

While I don’t want to step on my colleagues’ coverage of Eric Holder’s hearings, I’m at the Dirksen building for the joint confirmation hearings of Detp. of

It has been close to four months since Gov. Rick Perry soundly defeated Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for renomination in the Texas Republican gubernatorial

Via The Hill, here’s House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) telling Fox News yesterday that the extended debate over Democratic priorities (ie, health care

In a U.S. House subcommittee meeting held today, business sector spokesmen announced their support for the “Legal Workforce Act,” filed by chair Lamar Smith, R-Texas, that would require the use of E-Verify, the federal program that checks to see if a job applicant is authorized to work in the U.S. # Barry Rutenberg, first vice chairman of the board at the National Association of Home Builders , and himself a home builder from Gainesville — testified at the subcommittee meeting, highlighting points in in his written statement (.pdf): # E-Verify must continue to focus on the direct employer-employee relationship; holding every U.S

The established forces in his conservative party fear and denounce him. They cringe whenever he attacks Wall Street, vows to use government to help the poor

Joe Sestak (D) is now tied with Pat Toomey (R) in the Pennsylvania Senate race. Four Democratic senators claim BP aided efforts to get the Lockerbie bomber

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, after consultation with Attorney General Eric Holder, just issued a declassified narrative of how the Justice

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) just denounced Supreme Court Justice John Roberts’ disingenuous umpire theory of judging -- his oft-quoted statement that the

There are signs of capitulation -- or at least there is some clarification -- coming from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the GOP member Democrats believe to be

Some troubling findings today out of the Woodstock Institute, which examined home lending trends in seven major cities to discover that banks have scaled back

In another black mark on the Obama administration’s promised transparency, former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal fight to

The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks nationwide, after lawmakers on Monday easily hopped the procedural