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Not being in Pittsburgh, I wasn’t aware of a background briefing on the previously undisclosed Qom nuclear facility. But I’ve just gotten the transcript emailed

Today, the Center for Responsive Politics and Public Citizen jointly released a mammoth report on the small army of former federal employees lobbying on

At the beginning of the month, with very little fanfare, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), a freshman member who holds Tom DeLay’s old seat, introduced H. Res 809 to

Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will head to New Hampshire Sunday to headline the Nashua Republican City Committee lunch, fueling speculation that he

Peter Baker’s news analysis of the tax payment problems of some Obama nominees is deeply strange. The premise is right—the Democrats look bad after a week of

As if there weren’t enough already to worry about during this credit crisis, now there’s a possible surge of bank failures ahead. So far this year, three

Media Matters has done yeoman’s work debunking the myth of a New England Journal of Medicine study that allegedly found 46 percent of physicians ready to

For weeks, the presidential and vice presidential candidates have been pounding the Wall Street vs. Main Street trope into our heads. Now, the good people at

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico--Sitting in a downtown public library here I began to blog about how the presumed Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, seemed

Back in January, I reported that Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze (R), whose party had just won control of the legislature, was pushing legislation that would

<p>... as General Clark <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E6DB133AF93AA2575AC0A9659C8B63">once said</a>.

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has backed the Obama Administration in its case against SB 1070, the controversial immigration legislation passed by Arizona lawmakers last year. A three-judge panel ruled Monday that Arizona District Judge Susan Bolton “did not abuse her discretion,” as the Washington Post put it, when she blocked key provisions of the bill.

Don Blankenship -- the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week -- just

The Ways and Means subcommittee on income security will meet next Thursday to examine how Congress might better address the problem of long-term unemployment,

El Paso and parts of the Rio Grande Valley have some of the nation’s highest numbers of children living in foster care because their parents were removed by

Doug Feith started off today’s House judiciary torture hearing by insisting that Philippe Sands misquoted him in the book "Torture Team." Feith said

The Senate this afternoon confirmed Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by a vote of 59 - 39, despite Republican efforts to filibuster

Floyd Brown, the man behind the 1988 Willie Horton ad (and now a conservative activist who’s on the board of the American Conservative Union) unleashes probably

The antagonism to President-elect Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder to attorney general seems to be crumbling, despite Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-Penn.)

The heroes at Politijab.com got their hands on the full court transcript of the October 5 hearing in Alan Keyes et al v. Barack Obama et al, the district court

If you want to know what Sen. John McCain said to the the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC, you are probably best off