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SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. -- Early last night, when the mood at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s campaign headquarters was a lot lighter than it later

If he wins the Republican nomination for president, you can count on evolution , climate change, The Texas Miracle and a host of other issues becoming interesting to voters when they think about Rick Perry. For now– chasing only Republican votes –his positions on those issues seem pretty safe

The Justice Department released more documents -- or, at least, less-redacted documents -- late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation today that would order the federal commodity regulators overseeing futures trading to limit the positions on

Ed. note: This report is part of a collaboration with WNYC’s It’s a Free Country to cover the 25 most captivating 2012 congressional races around the country.

The Wall Street Journal, Pat Buchanan and others are already condemning the Obama administration for treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a civilian criminal

Well-known Israel expert Sarah Palin criticizes President Obama’s criticism of Israeli settlement expansion (most recently over Gilo): I disagree with the

Just released from the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dr. Raj Shah is a leader in the development community, an innovative and results-oriented

Here’s what an anonymous Republican aide told Greg Sargent about the politics of escalation in Afghanistan: “There better be a hell of a compelling reason

While I don’t want to step on my colleagues’ coverage of Eric Holder’s hearings, I’m at the Dirksen building for the joint confirmation hearings of Detp. of

It has been close to four months since Gov. Rick Perry soundly defeated Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for renomination in the Texas Republican gubernatorial

Via The Hill, here’s House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) telling Fox News yesterday that the extended debate over Democratic priorities (ie, health care

One of the world’s premier global warming deniers, Sen. James Inhofe , R-OK, Monday endorsed Rick Perry for president. Colorado politics watchers may remember it was shortly before last November’s election that Inhofe came to Colorado to engage in some joint campaigning with senate candidate Ken Buck

Bucking conventional legal strategy, Rod Blagojevich has done more than 100 media interviews since his arrest in 2008. Former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer has

Napolitano sees no vindication for a Department of Homeland Security report over recent violence.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has never been much a fan of Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection

Now that Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is home for recess, the local papers continue to further the story on his ethics probe in Washington. First, on Saturday,

After 17 years of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the next bill authorizing the Department of Defense’s budget will contain a provision instructing the Pentagon to

The latest ruling in the legal battle over California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 , like all other rulings and semi-rulings and arguments and positions in the battle, has poked up a hornet’s nest of cheers and complaints from supporters and opponents of gay marriage. Yet momentum in general seems to be turning fast against the anti-gay marriage forces and it is the same in the latest clash

Way back in April, I talked to Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs about his very public arguments with fellow warbloggers whom, he believed, had gone

The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks nationwide, after lawmakers on Monday easily hopped the procedural