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GOP Senate candidate Craig Miller (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) During this weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention, Craig Miller became the second GOP candidate in Florida’s Senate race to insult Occupy Wall Street protesters. Groups in Florida have been rallying in solidarity with the New York-based movement that has spread all over the country for weeks now. The protesters have expressed dissatisfaction with a range of issues including high unemployment, income inequality and corporate greed

I guess Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) -- actually, Addison Graves Wilson Sr. -- found out about that secret Democratic plot to provide all illegal immigrants with

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) isn’t Washington’s biggest fan of President Obama, as his withdrawal from consideration for commerce secretary last month demonstrated.

Flush off of the upset Democratic victory in NY-23, which he had a big hand in, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, is demanding that Rep. Michele

Michele Bachmann’s legislative endorsements in Iowa are quite the mixed bag: A state senator who served jail time for selling pot; a former mayor who allegedly

Political party committees poured more than $594 million into campaigns in 2010, according to data from the National Institute on Money in State Politics , and Florida accounted for roughly a fifth of that total.

A new Voter System Scorecard by Rock the Vote indicates that Iowa ranks second in the nation in engaging young voters. That’s the good news. The bad news is if Iowa’s overall percentage was a letter grade, the Hawkeye State would earn a mediocre D.

Freshman GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, who has steadily become a central figure in today’s Republican Party, spoke at the Ronald Reagan Library Tuesday. His message: Americans want the nation to be free and prosperous, but also compassionate.

The primary beneficiary of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a company that wants to refine tar sands oil into diesel and ship it to Europe while avoiding taxes, according to a new report by Oil Change International .

Carly Fiorina’s Senate campaign, which made sure reporters checked out the truly strange Boxer Blimp web video over the weekend, fires off a press release

A Latino Republican leader informs the candidates that the United States will soon be a majority-minority country. What are they going to do about it? Go to

McChrystal forcefully defended the Obama administration’s revised strategy, its weeks-long decision-making process and President Obama’s ultimate decision to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops for the war effort.

So just who are those civil liberties groups that have encouraged the Obama administration to issue an executive order creating a system of prolonged

There’s been a great deal of talk about how the ease of buying weapons in the United States might be helping to arm the Mexican gun cartels responsible for so

From The New York Times this morning: “As every student of American history knows, this country’s core founding principles included nonpunitive taxation,

Add Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) to the growing list of conservative state officials who are preaching fiscal restraint while also vying for federal stimulus

Senate Democrats attempting to pass a much-needed $26.1 billion state aid bill -- a fully paid-for provision including funds for teachers’ jobs and for Medicaid

Ben Geman, talking to the senators who’ll decide whether or not to bring cap-and-trade to the floor, reports that it isn’t. And in another report, he finds the

Survey results released by Public Policy Polling this week underline broad support in Colorado for some form of legislation that would grant gay couples equal partnership rights.

That’s the explosive question at the heart of the latest study released by the Center for Immigration Studies, a research group that advocates tight