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Hollywood-comedy-writer-turned-news-satirist Andy Borowitz takes aim today at the alternative reality created at Fox News. “ Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox… Channel Offers Welcome Break from Reality, Psychologists Say .” Borowitz’s jab comes with extra sting in light of Public Policy Polling’s recent survey of Republican voters . According to the March 15 poll, 25 percent of Republicans — i.e., 80 percent of Fox watchers – believe that the no-longer-existing low-income housing and voter registration group ACORN will steal the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama

I’ve spotlighted retired Lt. Col. Allen West as one of the GOP’s most credible African-American candidates for Congress this year--he lost a 2008 bid in his

This sort of reactionary tripe was perhaps inevitable: A small group of German officers opposed the loyalty oath to Hitler despite great political pressure.

FOX News just broke the story (with few details) that eight-term Indiana Rep. Mark Souder (R) will announce his resignation today after it came to light that

That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the

Less than two weeks after Goldman Sachs posted record quarterly profits, some congressional lawmakers are wondering if the Wall Street giant isn’t taking

Dodd’s exit will weaken strengthen financial reform. Shorter John McCain: I’m the man. The EPA declares war on smog. Congress tackles football

The McChrystal strategy review already presents something of a lacunae between an assessment of the damage done to the mission by Afghan governmental corruption

Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction

The week before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is one of countless stories poking gentle fun at the stranger items on the schedule. Alex

Moderate Democrats have grown wary of big spending bills, fearing that support for such measures could haunt them on the campaign trail this year.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater -- sorry, Xe Services, the new name for the company -- to say that Blackwater shell company Paravant

A robocall points out -- 10 times -- that Democratic candidate Tony Sessoms is homosexual. Jim Manchin refuses to pledge support for Barack Obama or Harry

Even with the Obama Justice Department on the side of John Yoo, the former Bush administration deputy assistant attorney general at the Office of Legal Counsel,

In a speech given at the SW Graduate School of Banking yesterday evening, Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, blasted the

That’s the argument that the Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian makes in his latest post at the National Review. Obviously the Obamacare

Reading Weigel’s post about the fetishization that the teabaggers have with analogizing themselves to terrorists, revolutionaries and guerrilas represents an