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To paraphrase Gus Haynes, you never really want to call another reporter a rip-off artist. At a wire service, it can be hard to credit someone who broke a story

David Keene of the American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, and former congressman/Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr

With news that President-elect Barack Obama will not attend President George W. Bush’s summit on the global financial crisis, onlookers might be forgiven for

If this wasn’t enough, the architects of the Pakistan aid bill -- Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) --

With Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) apparently assuming the chairmanship of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, moderate Arkansas Democratic Sen.

When Congress passed new consumer protections for credit card holders last May, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) successfully attached a not-at-all-related amendment

Not to beat this gas-tax debate to death, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who knows a thing or two about economics, chimed in yesterday on the John

An Austin supporter of Ron Paul wants to know if there are any women who have engaged in promiscuous activity with Rick Perry. Paul refused comment on the print ad Friday, saying it would provide something “rather silly” with “too much credibility.” Robert Morrow, the Paul supporter responsible for the ad, spoke briefly with reporter Justin Elliott of Salon , indicating that the organization noted on the ad — Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy (CASH) — was really just himself. In part, the ad reads: “HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH RICK PERRY

Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been accused of dealing drugs. Charges, and accusations, have never quite stuck. Nor has

Despite the State Department’s insistence that staffers for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on the Senate government affairs committee didn’t turn over information

Just 44 percent of Americans support an expansion of offshore oil drilling, according to a new Fox News poll -- down from 54 percent three weeks ago and 70

Daily Kos diarist Chuck Cook has photos of a Americans for Prosperity-sponsored rally against freshman Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-Md.) in Salisbury, Md. The

John Gorman, the former ArmorGroup Kabul project manager turned whistleblower whose allegations against the company I wrote about yesterday, met with aides to

Despite asking some of the harshest and arguably most patronizing questions of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor over the past three days, Sen. Lindsey

Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn indicated Friday that not one specific issue will help define candidates among Iowa Republicans in the 2012 election.

Charles Johnson of the war-on-terror-watching blog Little Green Footballs tells critics of President Obama to cool it over the resolution of the pirate hostage

Norman Stamper, the retired Seattle police chief and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com) shakes his finger at President

Via Twitter, Markos Moulitsas leaks the results of the latest Research 2000/Daily Kos poll of the NY-23 special election. Since the last poll, Democratic