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Washington’s prognosticators have all but written off a strong public option as part of the health reforms working their way through Congress. But don’t tell

Troops who served in Iraq earn the right to display the Iraqi Campaign Medal. From the perspective of the medal, there have been four phases of the war that the

Faced with increasing push-back from the public, the media, government watchdogs and a bipartisan list of lawmakers, the Department of Justice Thursday agreed to drop a proposed regulation that would have allowed government agencies to lie to members of the public seeking records through the Freedom of Information Act . “I believe it is extremely important that we do not attempt to protect our citizens by lying to them,” Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall said in a letter to Holder mailed Wednesday .

In a sharp switch from their historic reproach of government-backed health care, Republicans on Capitol Hill this year are embracing Medicare in their bid to kill the Democrats’ health reform plans.

President Obama announced his $150 billion job creation initiative on Tuesday, which includes everything from new spending for highway and bridge construction,

It is more than a little painful—some would say ugly—watching Hillary Rodham Clinton fight to the last to hold on to her dream. This was not the way it

Forget the claims of voter fraud, like Disney characters and dead people voting. The real problem in this election is likely to be not that ineligible people

It’s looking like political insiders might prevail in tomorrow’s most anticipated Senate and gubernatorial primaries in Florida, an outcome that would throw a

It was a big weekend for pushback from Tea Party groups that have been accused of exploiting their fellow activists. Not long after Tea Party Nation blasted its

While in Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gave an interview to an extremely sympathetic reporter for PajamasTV. Asked about the Obama

Via Glenn Thrush, Byron York reports that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is joining the campaign against Kevin Jennings, the openly gay head of the Education

At a Rose Garden press conference today, President George W. Bush called for Congress to lift the federal moratorium on off-shore oil and natural gas

The conservative author who makes a living offending liberals takes a tiny step into the land of Obama birth certificate theories with a throwaway line in her

EPA has asked nine hydraulic fracturing service providers to voluntarily hand over information about the chemicals the companies use in removing natural gas

Who knows if this is true, frankly. But at The Huffington Post, Lawrence O’Donnell kinda-sorta says that Colin L. Powell, the former general and former

A screenshot from a broadcast of the Scott event During the unveiling of his budget recommendations for the upcoming legislative session, Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show asked Gov. Rick Scott to pee in a cup to prove he is not on drugs

After the House passed its $600 million border security bill this morning, immigrants rights groups are citing a new poll to argue further spending on border

Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) has a co-sponsor for his much-maligned bill that would require a birth certificate from presidential candidates. There’s nothing in

Right as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finishes his first Washington encounter with the Obama administration, the administration is adding a

White voters who might sour on the president are more likely to turn out than the young and black voters who made up his margin of victory in 2008.

Sen. Hutchison (R-Texas) and Rep. Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) each announced this year that they would resign in 2010 to campaign for governor of their respective

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) Fourteen U.S.

If you read the stories in The Wall Street Journal last week or The New York Times this week about campaign contributions from financial companies, you might