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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the self-described (sort of) freedom fighter against the Democratic majority, is rolling out the latest of his hard-right economic

As if Rick Perry wasn’t taking enough flak from his fellow Republican candidates for president, he has to sit still for a rambling denunciation from none other than Sarah Palin who thinks it is just wrong to let undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges .

Tomorrow is (probably) going to be Nuke Day in Washington, as the Obama administration releases its long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review. That’ll tee up

Andrew Ackerman at the Wall Street Journal parses the jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and finds that a full one million Americans exhausted their jobless benefits in the past year. About 8.2 million idled workers were receiving unemployment benefits as of the week ended April 9, the Labor Department said in its weekly jobless claims report.

Politico reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) chief of staff Michelle Marston is stepping down. Multiple sources have confirmed that Michelle

Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the oil pipeline break that spilled about 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the

In response to Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), Gen. Stanley McChrystal reframed the beginning of the U.S. transition to Afghan security control in July 2011 as a

Here’s another nugget from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s appearance today in Washington. Huckabee caught some heat from the right, particularly from

As the banks go national and Wall Street goes loco, states are increasingly feeling the pain of the economic turmoil. Twenty-one states and the District of

President Obama again pledged his support for the DREAM Act during a meeting today with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Luis

The project that found political fame with a dubbed version of a speech by Texas Gov.

Clearly enjoying the attention he’s getting for his aggressive attacks on the Obama administration’s handling of terror threats, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.)

Want to learn how Jack Bauer ought to get terrorists to divulge information against their interests? Check out Interrogations Central, a website launched last

Well, you might have a bit more if Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) get their way. The two lawmakers have plans to reintroduce legislation to

Jameel Jaffer, head of the American Civl Liberties Union’s national security project, has a few problems with Defense Department General Jeh Johnson’s

The inmate population in the United States has grown steadily over the past fifteen years, increasing by 49.6 percent, while the proportion of those prisoners

PITTSBURGH - From a flier making its way around RightOnline:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is reeling after a rough debate in Orlando, Fla., and is still taking heat for defending the law he signed 10 years ago, granting in-state

Jennifer Yachnin reports this detail in a story on the relative personal wealth of senators. Wealth in the chamber ranges from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) —

Via Rick Klein, here’s a combative address by Federal Communications Commission diversity officer Mark Lloyd, a frequent target of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party

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ANCHORAGE -- I’m here at Humpy’s bar on 6th Street in downtown Anchorage, Alaska getting ready to watch hometown governor Sarah Palin introduce herself to the