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PORTLAND, MAINE -- This morning, after spending some quality time in the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, with the former president and First Father

According to Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo, Republicans and -- new development here -- Democrats are getting behind the idea of slowly raising the

President Obama is not a popular politician in Colorado but, according to a recent Public Policy Polling survey , Obama would defeat in a landslide Republican Newt Gingrich, whose star has risen of late but who boasts laughable negative numbers with voters here and is despised by the state’s enormous percentage of independent voters. Gingrich, however, is the latest in a revolving list of candidates who have floated to the top of the party’s primary contest as an alternative to effective frontrunner Mitt Romney. PPP recently reported Gingrich leading Romney among Colorado Republicans 37-18 , partly due to the fact that Gingrich is drawing the lion’s share of Herman Cain supporters left in the lurch when their man dropped out of the race in the wake of horrifically managed spiraling sex scandals.

In May, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released an audit revealing that the FBI’s terrorist watchlist -- the list used at border

Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them

Suggesting that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leave the room in the debate over end-of-life counseling, conservative Washington Post columnist Charles

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.), who is often mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate for the GOP, spoke yesterday at the Capitol Visitors Center on the

Few innocent victims of post-9/11 counter-terrorism policies have been able to sustain their claims against government officials in federal courts, although

Here’s a fun accounting term to remember: accretable yield. That’s the difference between a loan’s value on a bank’s balance sheet and the expected cash flow

Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, testified that imprisoning some Guantanamo detainees in the United States would make it politically

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday that she would not move her state’s presidential primary into January, which would likely force Iowa and New Hampshire to also jump ahead

Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis has outraised Republican opponent Cindy Golding, $63,406 to $44,808, and the Democrat enjoyed $292,426 of in-kind contributions compared to $69,418 for Golding. Mathis and Golding are locked in a special election that will determine control of the Iowa Senate. Former State Sen.

After writing my last post, I feel compelled to point out that while investigators may believe so far that Ft. Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan acted

The Iran petroleum-sanctions bill authored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif) is scheduled for debate in the House imminently. That bill, if it passes, wouldn’t

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, thereby striking down Proposition 8 -- the

House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner quietly launched yet another fundraising committee last week to aid Republican efforts to take back the House this

A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post: When Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told The Washington Post that he was studying Winston Churchill’s political insurgency, he

It’s a token of how surprised people are by Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign in Kentucky that a poll showing him 19 points up is spun this way by the

According to a new analysis by Campaign Money Watch, an officially nonpartisan but left-leaning campaign finance watchdog group, lobbyists with ties to Sen.

Last night, the Senate agreed to a proposal by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) to reduce the funds available to TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, from $700

This is my favorite rejection under the Freedom of Information Act ever. In May, following a wealth of disclosures about the role of the Survival Evasion

In an internal 2003 memo, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously warned that the struggle against terrorism would be a long, hard slog. His