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Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal looks at President Obama’s efforts to reform defense contracting and is less than impressed: hat goes unanswered is who is

In the wake of his announcement today he is running for President , U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has also established a website to inform and encourage attendance of Iowa’s August straw poll, campaign officials said this afternoon

More on U.S. efforts to aid Pakistanis displaced by the current military efforts against the Taliban. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know if Blair agrees with harmonizing CIA interrogations with the Geneva-complaint Army Field Manual on interrogations. He

The White House wants to see your Facebook friend requests. Michele Bachmann can’t stop talking about impeaching Obama. Crack sentencing will soon be more

My friend Tim Carney took over the 42-year-old Evans-Novak Political Report after its chief author, Robert Novak, fell ill late last year. (Co-founder Rowland

Congress didn’t just agree to keep the government’s lights on through the rest of the fiscal year. It is also ensuring it has the option of doing so with energy-sucking incandescent 100-watt bulbs

I don’t know how seriously to take Republican candidate Jim Tedisco’s ballot challenges in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election when his

In the latest incident of Tea Party infighting, a rally in Orlando saw Tea Partiers alleging that the Florida Tea Party would hurt its election chances.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Navy Commander Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the military command running the detention facility here, told reporters that Omar Khadr is being

Confused about the financial crisis? The rise of mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps? So, it appears, were the credit ratings agencies -- the

As an addendum to Suemedha’s post, I’ll fill you in on the League of Conservation Voters’ assessment of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on environmental

As the conference committee reconciles the House and Senate versions of the financial regulatory reform bills, Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) amendment

Interesting phone chat today with the Council on Foreign Relations’ Steve Biddle and Dan Markey, both of whom recently visited Afghanistan and shared some

Being a serial plagiarist may no longer be the professional equivalent of a hair shirt. Look at Vice President Joe Biden. Good thing for ex-Bush

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) asks about President Obama’s discussions about the pace of withdrawal from Iraq. Gates says they’re discussing transitioning forces

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano came to Washington from Arizona, where she served as attorney general and governor and was politically aligned with

Via The Weekly Standard, a USA Today/Gallup poll finds support for Obama’s extended surge in Afghanistan: A narrow majority of Americans support President

I flipped on the radio last night and heard the famously dog-whistle-pitched voice of conservative pundit Mark Levin attacking President Barack Obama for ...