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It’s a question the Democratic Policy Committee considers in a flash report called The Economic Statistics of the BP Oil Spill, which also underscores the

On the heels of my piece today about former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) and his remarkable ability to project moderation when the facts say otherwise, both he and Rep.

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Gov.

While the State Department is fending off questions about why it didn’t revoke Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa and points fingers at the National

The Senate Armed Services Committee goes into room 222 of the Russell building today at 2:30 p.m. to mark up the fiscal 2011 defense authorization bill. Until

Speaking of what Israelis will allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept from the U.S. and the Palestinians with regard to direct negotiations and a

A Michigan Congressman says rules connected to invitations to an upcoming 2012 GOP presidential debate appear to have purposefully excluded certain candidates, including himself, from participating. “The great irony at work — especially with the Reagan Library debate — is going to be the fact that two frontrunners weren’t even Republicans during the Reagan administration, whereas people like myself at the age of 21 were,” McCotter said during an appearance on Fox Business. The Simi Valley, Calif

The newest weapon in the conservative pushback against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is an unearthed 2001 cultural diversity lecture at the University

Last night on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Harper’s writer and lawyer Scott Horton made the astonishing -- and very convincing -- argument that,

Today, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission -- the bipartisan panel examining the causes of the financial crisis that plunged the country into recession --

In its newest TV ad, titled Hypo, the McCain campaign labels Sen. Barack Obama a hypocritical liar. I’ll pause a moment to allow the irony -- some might

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is slated to testify next week before the House Energy & Commerce Committee on the role of the Interior Department in the

The stock market may be down 50 percent from a year ago, housing prices might be at 2003 levels, unemployment might be gaining momentum and recovery may be

A Foreign Policy end-of-the-year list recovers this embarrassing Sept. 27 prediction from Charles Krauthammer, one that I missed when rounding up the

The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed the recommendation of a state commission to raise the tax on gasoline by up to 10 cents per gallon. Craig Lang In the endorsement statement, IFBF President Craig Lang (also recently elevated as an Iowa Regent at the request of Gov. Terry Branstad) said that an increase “is the fairest way to fund” road repairs “because it charges people who actually use the roads whether they live in Iowa or are from out-of-state.” Here’s the statement: With rural roads making up nearly 90,000 miles of the state’s 114,000-mile road system, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) applauds the Governor’s Transportation 2020 Citizen Advisory Commission recommendation for an additional 8 to 10 cents per gallon fuel tax

Just when you thought the Florida Senate race drama had stabilized for a few hours, meet Jeff Greene. Greene, a real estate billionaire, is reportedly preparing

Let’s be very specific about what we mean when we describe the troop increase that President Obama is expected to announce tonight. I see the headline of this

Broward County construction workers who said Monday that they have not been paid for several weeks of work at a Fort Lauderdale building project are looking at their legal options to recover their wages.

In a message that Iraq Veterans Against the War is helping spread, two soldiers identified as serving with the company in Wikileaks’ Iraq video -- the one

Last week, The American Independent reported on a policy within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “Project Gunrunner” program

So reports Jeff Stein on his brand-new Washington Post intelligence blog: The Justice Department and Warren’s Florida-based attorney, Mark David Hunter,