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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In September, the McCain campaign took a gamble that a Troopergate stonewalling strategy would pay off. But now it’s starting to look like

Buoyed by the sight of Reds rookie phenom Jay Bruce scoring the game winning run at Fireworks Night in Cincinnati last night, we lept outta bed this morning and

Looks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., has lost some of his authority to arrest people he suspects are illegal immigrants. Under the

Victoria McGrane takes stock of the libertarian/liberal coalition against Ben Bernanke getting a second term at the Federal Reserve, reporting out some of the

This is at least the fourth time I’ve heard someone refer to the Bush administration’s proposed regulation on the Endangered Species Act as the fox guarding

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have just begun their Pentagon budget and QDR press

The president will speak from the Oval Office on Tuesday to discuss the spill, as Senate leaders work to patch together an energy bill.

In response to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday questioning the constitutionality of Gov. Rick Perry’s upcoming prayer event, the governor is calling the

A group of 10 Democratic senators today reintroduced legislation designed to end the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine -- a long-standing

State of Play: Obama’s New Pastor Problem Just as Sen. Barack Obama thought he had weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright storm, another Chicago clergyman has

Today’s the deadline for Iran’s leadership to embrace or reject the deal its negotiators endorsed in Vienna to ship uranium out of the country for enrichment

Hillary Chabot talks to grumpy Massachusetts Republicans who think they have an outside chance at an upset in next month’s special election for U.S. Senate -- a

Ah, once again: the stakes in Iraq. From Bush’s speech at Fort Bragg yesterday: Some of our fellow citizens wonder whether the mission in Iraq is worth the

Noam Scheiber directs us to an interesting Politico assessment of how changes in the handling of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have boosted his

The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge

GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann shared her vision of an aggressive foreign policy, which she said would return the nation to its proper role as leader of the free world, at the annual convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis Thursday.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy wasn’t the only Obama administration official who addressed the American Enterprise Institute this