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One man’s short take after watching the Inauguration through the trees at the southern edge of the WWII Memorial: There were few surprises through the

Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his nomination hearing to become the next commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa) this morning told a town hall audience he will not support a bill that gives health coverage to illegal immigrants. Will the

U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron) used a nationally-televised debate Saturday evening to praise a budget plan from U.S

Via Zachary Roth at TPMmuckraker, The Huffington Post reports that retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, called for

<p>Attention Republican candidates: sanctuary cities are popping up right on the borders of the nation’s capital!</p> <p> Former

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The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Rosenberg (with aid from Yochi Dreazen) has a piece that I can’t recommend strongly enough: a profile of Gul Agha Shirzai, the

Public protections against fraud hang in the balance over the upcoming SEC budget battle.

Ben Smith has the not-so-shocking news that FreedomWorks, the chief organizer of a large September 12 anti-tax, anti-spending march on Washington, has been

An increase of U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan seemed like a certainty during a Pentagon press conference held Thursday afternoon by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, though both men insisted no decision had yet been made.

Marco Rubio, the conservative underdog in the 2010 GOP primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, tells CNN that Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) made a disappointing

The embattled Republican candidate in the NY-23 special election buckles and signs the Americans for Tax Reform pledge never to support a tax increase. How does

Peter Baker has the skinny on the hiring of James Glassman, former editor of Roll Call, former publisher of the New Republic, to run the George W. Bush

If you missed it, the roll call vote on Cass Sunstein’s nomination to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is up here. All but six Republicans

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his Super PAC are continuing a media blitz at Des Moines’ top network TV stations, while other candidates and issue groups have gone off the airwaves. Perry has spent $44,693 at KCCI, the local CBS affiliate, for ads running from Nov

The American Federation for Children’s insistence that it is a bipartisan education group took a hit today when it was revealed to be one of three school