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DES MOINES — U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) called to abolish the Federal Reserve amid cheers and applause Monday during a meet and greet at a coffeehouse in the capital city.

Judge Clay Land of the Middle District of Georgia has tossed out Maj. Stefan Cook’s lawsuit demanding proof of President Obama’s citizenship before deploying

Monday, U.S.

High-stakes testing security in New Orleans is undergoing an overhaul this year following recommendations laid out by a task force commissioned by the Recovery

As Cuba celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its revolution on New Year’s Day, political shifts in the United States present Barack Obama with an opportunity to change long-standing policies.

National Association of Evangelicals is in the market for a new top lobbyist, according to The Christian Post. The job description includes a very unusual

This had been coming ever since the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, but now it’s here. From The Washington Post: The Iraqi government has informed the U.S.

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During a press conference this morning in Chicago, ostensibly to officially name former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as President-elect Barack

Karl Eikenberry -- man, does he have a tough time ahead. Eikenberry, you’ll recall, is the Obama administration’s choice to lead U.S. diplomatic efforts in

The budget compromise announced by Gov. Rick Snyder, House Speaker Jase Bolger and Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville contains at least one provision that the governor’s legal counsel has said is unconstitutional and two controversial provisions that have nothing to do with the budget but are part of the conservative social agenda.

I just got off the phone with Frank MacKay, state chairman of the New York Independence Party, a powerful third party which had endorsed Republican candidate

In an op-ed for USA Today that makes the arguments that Tea Party Convention organizers want out there -- while broadcasting that the event has become a

Alas, I wasn’t on Air Force One this morning or I could have reported this at 11 a.m., but the transcript of the press gaggle has just come to me. And in it,

Julian Barnes reports: I don’t think there’s a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or the Congress, Pelosi

My friend J.P. Freire, the managing editor of The American Spectator, is the brains behind NewAmericanTeaParty.com. When I saw him today after Grover Norquist’s

Jake Tapper at ABC News reports that the Obama administration will announce on Tuesday that at least some Guantanamo Bay detainees are headed to the federal

The most interesting angle on President-elect Barack Obama’s bread-breaking with conservatives last night was the intrigue on Rush Limbaugh’s

On the same day that the Labor Department reported 637,000 new jobless claims in the first week of May -- up 32,000 from the week before -- a group of Senate