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For your viewing pleasure, Ana Marie Cox files her third video piece of the evning:

The unemployment numbers spell trouble for Dems in the midterms. DeMint dismisses Cornyn’s big tent strategy. And in response to assurances on Honduras,

With about six weeks to go until Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fasting event in Houston, a growing handful of Republican governors are saying they won’t be

Last year several Senate Republicans supported the cap and trade idea, but are now shying from President Obama’s push.

A coalition of groups that oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline is calling on President Obama to remove the State Department from the process of deciding whether to approve the project.

Medicine Hat News reports on a speech Sarah Palin gave in Calgary (tickets as low as $150), where a folksy monologue took a shocking turn -- an admission about

A number of Republican presidential candidates are raising money for family policy councils, state-based religious-right groups affiliated with the Family

DES MOINES — Pastor Cary Gordon was sure many of the people who heard him speak last week at the west steps of the Capitol for the “Let Us Vote” rally thought the main reason they were there was to protest same-sex marriage.

Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, writes in The Washington Note about the utter incompetence of the battlefield

Via Matt Welch at Reason, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has proposed an amendment to the jobs bill requiring that recipients of unemployment insurance or welfare

The election of Barack Obama and the increased push for energy independence have helped Congress make strides toward passing comprehensive climate change

Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) asked if U.S. troops will be able to enter Pakistan, the first headache of the morning for Gen. Stanley McChrystal. My

From the Washington Post: An investigative report scheduled for release Wednesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cites U.S. concern over as many as

A spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has responded to Orly Taitz’s latest publicity stunt -- her claim that when Cantor accepted her Facebook request, it

Would you believe I was IMing with Hussein Ibish, senior fellow with the American Task Force on Palestine and a wise observer of all matters Arab-Israeli, about

When Nouri al-Maliki’s Iraqi Army runs for the rear against Moqtada al-Sadr’s Jaish al-Mahdi, U.S. armor rides to Maliki’s rescue. We’re now in the thick of an

At this morning’s Senate hearing on the D.C. Voting Rights Act, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) were

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr Since American Crystal Sugar locked out union workers on Aug.

Public Policy Polling’s habit of asking revealing, bizarre questions continues with a survey of New Jersey voters that finds—as President Obama’s approval

Really too disgusting for words: ABC reports that two women have come forward to accuse the CIA’s Algeria station chief of drugging and raping them. (Via

The investigation into the oil spill BP released today is already causing waves. In the report, BP spread the blame for the spill among multiple companies,

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