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In a sign of the reach and depth of this financial crisis, even lawyers are getting the layoff ax. The Wall Street Journal’s law blog wrote that Thursday was

Gary Johnson Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson minced few words in his blistering assessment of “ The Marriage Vow ,” a 2012 candidate pledge released by Bob Vander Plaats and The Family Leader last week. When asked for his thoughts on Johnson’s assessment, Vander Plaats first attacked the messenger

The Washington Examiner makes a point that I’m seeing on a lot of conservative blogs, alleging mean-spirited attacks against Tea Parties due to the failure

The Washington Post reports that a large group of Muslim travelers were removed from a flight Thursday at a Washington-area airport after one of them made a

The House Financial Services Committee chairman applauds recent moves by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and banks to modify mortgages and keep borrowers in their homes. But companies that service loans aren’t doing enough, he says, and that needs to change.

Maybe it’s because I’m relatively new to the immigration beat, but I’m consistently surprised at the twists and turns of immigration policy that lead to absurd

Perhaps I was too quick to dismiss the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board yesterday. The White House just released a new executive order that gives the

So implies Congressional Quarterly, which reported today that the Obama administration is leaning toward a strategy of basing its bipartisanship determination

As The Associated Press reported on Monday, President-elect Barack Obama is wasting no time in making plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and

Hoping to give their primary voters a voice at the presidential nomination convention, the Michigan Democratic Party will soon announce plans to hold a caucus,

U.S. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) gave an impromptu press conference before a speaking engagement Tuesday morning, mostly on the Tucson shootings, rejecting calls

On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush, on holiday at his Crawford ranch, received a CIA briefing entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S."

Congressman Jared Polis today called for the inclusion of comprehensive immigration reform in any negotiated package presented to Congress to raise the debt limit and cut the deficit. In a letter to President Obama and Speaker Boehner, Polis outlined how he thinks immigration reform could increase federal revenues by billions of dollars, helping to close the budget deficit

In what looks like an effort to rush through proposed rules to overhaul the Endangered Species Act, the Interior Dept. has said it plans on reviewing 200,000

A petition to the Supreme Court filed Monday is being called the first major challenge to the Obama administration’s detention policies.