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When was the last time you heard a politician campaign on promises of cutting government waste? When was the last time those promises turned out to be empty

Mortgage Insider tells the sad tale of an 85-year-old widow, living alone with no surviving family members to turn to, who is about to lose her home. Rita

With the 2012 GOP presidential field wide open, it’s only natural that the eyes of some Republican strategists would turn to the popular governor of a state

Conservative Christian site LifeNews.com has announced that Ryan Bomberger, head of the controversial Radiance Foundation, will join the site as a contributing blogger. Former Planned Parenthood director turned anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson was also recently named a contributing blogger for the site. # From an article detailing Bomberger’s new position: # As a respected pro-life activist Bomberger is taking his campaign of re-establishing the notion that “Life has purpose” to a new platform: the LifeNews.com pro-life news service.

So much for the dithering critique. Here is a statement just released by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, expressing

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel isn’t exactly known for his indulgence of political opponents. Still, his recent interview with The Wall Street Journal,

Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders emerged from more than three hours of negotiations Thursday with the “framework” of a budget deal that would end the state’s 14-day-old government shutdown.

“A lack of transmission lines is the single greatest barrier to wind here in the Midwest, says Jamie Karnik of Wind on the Wires.

The Obama administration’s budget blueprint for fiscal year 2011, unveiled yesterday, includes $49 billion to expand federal unemployment benefits, which

The Republican Party of Minnesota released a statement on Thursday evening saying it stands by Republicans opposed to a constitutional amendment banning marriage for same-sex couples, but that it won’t change its platform against marriage rights for gay people. “The Republican Party unconditionally supports the state party platform calling for a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” said party chairman Tony Sutton. Sutton said the platform represents the views and values of the majority of Republicans.

A lot of material from the declassified Senate Armed Services Committee report (pdf) couldn’t fit into my piece last night, so we take to the blogs. Take a look

With the price of oil dropping to around $74 a barrel -- and gasoline prices, on average, falling below $3 a gallon -- the alternative-energy industry may have

TransCanada is withdrawing an application before the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to operate its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline

“I do not think that most citizens know that, for all practical purposes, we do not have a campaign finance enforcement agency, says Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21. We have a set of laws on the books, but we have an agency that basically refuses to enforce them, or misinterprets the laws in ways that cripples their impact.

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State believes a controversial Texas pastor who posted videos of himself endorsing Gov. Rick Perry for president on his church’s website has violated federal tax laws. Robert Jeffress Pastor Robert Jeffress of the Dallas-based First Baptist Church made his endorsement known over the weekend at the Values Voter Summit , where he drew direct ire from some for saying his support for Perry was based upon the candidate’s Christianity and implying that former Massachusetts Gov.

I’ve written in the past about the evolution of the anti-jihadist blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and

So says Yochi Dreazen of The Wall Street Journal: President-elect Barack Obama is leaning toward asking Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his

Over the weekend Gov. Rick Perry joined one of his most generous campaign benefactors, San Antonio millionaire James Leininger, in a Hill Country retreat

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Jonathan Martin’s smart report on Harold Ford Jr.’s baffling campaign for a Senate seat in New York includes a memorable swipe from Rep. Anthony Weiner

Former Ambassador to China and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman appeared to be the only benefactor to a New Hampshire exchange between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and a small boy, which was prompted by the boy’s mother

Politico has a good story this morning breaking down criticism over Sen. Robert Menendez’s comprehensive immigration bill, which could be unveiled as early as