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Former congressional candidate and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh was arrested this weekend after dancing at Jefferson Memorial.

In a last-minute scramble yesterday, Planned Parenthood’s clinic located in Overland Park was granted a license from a Kansas state agency allowing the clinic to continue providing legal abortion services. # The Planned Parenthood clinic was one of the last three clinics operating in the state until a new law went into effect today

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr Union members who have been locked out from American Crystal Sugar plants since the start of August rejected the company’s most recent offer in a vote Tuesday.

I’ve been tracking the progress of Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009, the legislation that would kill the salaries

Alissa J. Rubin has a great story in The New York Times today about a crucial issue in Iraq (which some wags are starting to call the Forgotten War): an

<p>Hello, my name is Allison Silver. I’m the editor of <em>The Washington Independent</em>. I’ve been involved in analysis and commentary in

It goes to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was asked on a conference call about reports that Smartronix.com will get an $18 million contract to rebuild

For all his talk about how he doesn’t care about opinion polls, former Vice President Dick Cheney is narcissistically incapable of criticizing President Obama

Glenn Beck, one-time shock jock now wildly emotive and popular TV political conspiracy theorist, is airing his last regular show on the Fox network tonight. He plans to stride from the Fox studio after his nightly show to the home of his new “GBTV” outlet to do a post-Fox interview– not with any media talking head but with regular people who will participate in a live Q&A. To hear GB talk about his new venture, it’s going to be typically low key and free of grandiose aspirations

In an effort to cut $58 billion from the federal budget for the second half of Fiscal Year 2011, House Republicans released a budget proposal late last week, one provision of which would mean steep cuts for food safety programs at both the FDA and USDA. Critics argue the reductions could cause a major hold-up on recently enacted food safety laws. # According to the Republican plan, 14 percent, or $3.2 billion, would be chopped from the budgets of the USDA and FDA.

On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission made a bombshell announcement: It is charging Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs with civil fraud for failing to

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I’m hearing -- though the players have not yet responded to my questions -- that there’s some serious friction between one of the main organizations of the Tea

Citing insufficient funding for roadways, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax, based on the number of miles a

The U.S. lost 23,000 more private-sector jobs in March. And Reason argues that public-sector jobs are killing the economy. GOP donors have stopped

The abortion debate in the Senate is looking more and more like that in the House every day. Last week, it was liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

I’m at the National Press Club, where the six candidates for RNC chairman are facing off. (Yes, even Chip the Magic Gaffer.) The forum was organized by Grover

President Obama’s planned speech on immigration reform tomorrow has been lauded as indication of a renewed commitment to immigration reform, as have his