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Nicolle Wallace — the McCain campaign veteran most despised by the base -- as they believe she was the one leaking damaging lines about Sarah Palin — tells

Mark Ambinder has a post running under the headline, Provocation of The Day: Coleman Could Still Win. He argues: The Minnesota canvassing board doesn’t

While governor, Palin founded a company -- called Pie Spy. The public supports Obama’s Afghanistan dithering. Romney tries to explain away

Jonathan Martin writes about the possible, if unlikely, nightmare scenario of cafe owner Tamyra D’Ippolito succeeding in her fringe campaign to get on the

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is challenging a report by the Washington Examiner’s Kevin Mooney which alleged that the group had

John Gizzi, the extremely plugged-in political editor of Human Events, has a fun story on the troubles facing Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) after his recent

These are all still open issues, said Lachelier. There are so many moving parts.

Rep. Mark Kirk’s (R-Ill.) successful Illinois Senate primary campaign against a truly weak field of GOP candidates is being interpreted as a blow to the Tea

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Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed this week $400 billion in real and necessary budget cuts in federal spending to avoid raising the budget ceiling

Democrats and Republicans reached an 11th-hour deal on the federal budget tonight, trimming more than $38 billion and averting a looming shutdown of the government. Colorado’s senior Sen

Snowe gets a nice reward for her yea vote. Here’s what she’s likely to ask for. Dole and other pro-health reform Republicans stand to profit from their

Aztec, N.M., maintains it is no “sanctuary,” and for months has led a campaign to shed the designation.

TPM has a great roundup today of the escalating Republican argument that closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility could be all but impossible because --

Efforts to make an HIV vaccine were dealt a severe blow in September when a 3,000-person trial of a Merck vaccine failed. An analysis later showed that that not

Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced that he’d whip aggressively for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill,

The head of the Electrification Coalition says he is confident that a proposal to incentivize electric vehicles will pass Congress next year as part of a narrow

Scientists for years have warned about the irreversible damage to Appalachian ecosystems caused by mountaintop removal coal mining (which makes sense,

Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the time it is taking to consider license renewal applications from aging nuclear power plants.