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The GOP’s Pledge to America is pretty brief when it comes to immigration issues: It advocates control of the border, enforcement of immigration laws and

If Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election, will that victory undermine his political future? What a stupid question, you might be thinking. I can’t

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Despite expressing concerns with his state’s “fetal personhood” amendment, which would define life as beginning at conception, Mississippi Gov.

Yesterday, D.C. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, presuming the good faith of the government, ruled that the Pentagon and CIA don’t have to turn over

One more thing about former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller and her charges about being kept in the dark by the U.S. on torture. According to the Independent,

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) leading opponent Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) by double digits in the race for the U.S.

Sen. John McCain’s new mortgage plan -- which may actually be old, as TWI’s Mary Kane notes -- drew a stinging rebuke on Wednesday afternoon from the Obama

Sen. John McCain is left of the GOP base when it comes to the environment. But though he may draw in independents and moderate Democrats, can he hold on to his party base?

<p>With gas prices rising and home values falling, Sen. John McCain sought to assuage voters’ economic worries in a speech in Pittsburgh today. Most major

This morning’s Senate session was devoted to a debate surrounding the DISCLOSE Act, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated will likely

Sen. Barack Obama hit one swing state on Election Day, skipping across the Illinois-Indiana border to a union hall in Indianapolis. Indiana was a George W. Bush

As midterm election campaigns heat up, so too are allegations of voter fraud, the majority of which are being made by right wing groups. TPM reports that the

I don’t remotely have enough knowledge about the forthcoming Iranian presidential election -- and after so many misforecast assessments over so many years, I’m

Because the bill was held up for so long in the Senate, an end-of-the-year filing deadline will prevent anyone from accessing the final six weeks of benefits, according to state officials and sources on Capitol Hill.

As former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan continues to spin his defense of his legacy, we noted this week that his early mentor, Ayn Rand, would have

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will meet to decide, among other things, whether to take up the case of Kiyemba v. Obama, in which the U.S. Circuit Court of

In one of the more bizarre subplots of the Iraq war, the United States has for years protected thousands of members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, an Iranian

It’s no surprise that the FBI is investigating four companies at the heart of the financial crisis to find out whether criminal wrongdoing helped lead to their

On Twitter, Newt insists that he misspoke: It wasn’t would-be-shoebomber Richard Reid (nationality: British) who was an American citizen; he meant Jose