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Newt Gingrich spent the last week promoting a liveblog of the health care summit at his Center for Health Transformation, with expert commentary and the

It’ll take about a week before we learn the results of Saturday’s provincial elections in Iraq. But until then, a really excellent blog, Musings On Iraq, has

I don’t know if this is wishful thinking or solid intelligence work. But Josh Partlow at The Washington Post has a spectacular story today from Kabul about

Politicians should be charging lobbyists more for favorable legislation. Swine flu’s pretty bad, but at least it’s not another Senate page

In just the last seven days, third-party groups spent $153,000 on independent expenditures to buy commercials, make phone calls and fund other activities to

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she’s ordering an independent investigation into the controversial firing of prosecutors who were going after foreclosure mills. Prospective Allen West challenger Patrick Murphy raised more money than any other congressional challenger , and his haul includes donations from fellow former Republican Charlie Crist. Anti-immigration laws prove counter-productive, harmful — Miami Herald editorial

The Family Research Council, a religious-right outfit some watchdog organizations have called an anti-gay hate group , has recently become quite vocal in its opposition to government spending and has called for drastic cuts to social programs. But a survey by The American Independent shows that FRC’s state-based affiliates, called family policy councils, have raked in nearly $6 million in state and federal funds over the last five years to work on their own social programming goals.

Though it doesn’t mean he’ll actually get to go anywhere, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in a decision filed on Monday granted the petition for habeas

From an MSNBC interview today with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who’s slamming the Obama administration for its recent release of Bush-era memos justifying

Benefits stopped coming to LuAnn Greer two weeks ago. She’s cut her expenses to the bare minimum, but doesn’t know when she’ll see another unemployment check.

The news that President-elect Barack Obama may pick his national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, for secretary of commerce raises a couple of

Ever wonder why loan modifications haven’t become the silver bullet that would solve the foreclosure crisis? Via Patrick.net, USA Today explains in simple terms

Rep. Justin Amash held a townhall meeting sponsored by a Tea Party group on Saturday sponsored by a Tea Party group, but a group of senior citizens and two reporters — including this one — were denied entry to the event

William Jacobson, a professor/blogger who’d been highly critical of the push for a poll in Massachusetts, embraces the new Rasmussen poll that shows Republican

Retired Adm. Dennis Blair is up before the Senate intelligence committee for his confirmation as director of national intelligence, the head of the 16-agency

Another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The New York Times reports that the rig is just east of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded in

In his first interview since being appointed to lead the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, Herschel Vinyard spoke with The Florida Current about some of Florida’s more controversial proposals, including a stricter set of water pollution standards and a plan that would privatize portions of some Florida state parks.