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Being a serial plagiarist may no longer be the professional equivalent of a hair shirt. Look at Vice President Joe Biden. Good thing for ex-Bush

Last night, sixteen auto workers from Detroit packed into four cars (American-made, of course) and drove to Washington, where they met up with colleagues from

I’ve been informed that Culture11, the five-month-old conservative web magazine launched by Bill Bennett, former Bush administration faith policy guru David

Let’s pretend that this Rush Limbaugh op-ed in the Wall Street Journal isn’t a (pretty funny) goof on the invented controversy about whether he’s preventing

I’m already sick of the arrrrr-pirates-of-Somalia jokes, but as long as we’re talking about piracy, it seemed worth noting that the Pentagon gave the thumbs-up

This post is going to get filled, really fast, with irresponsible speculation. So let’s have some fun. This Washington Post story about the Washington debate

It should be no surprise that the weak economy is making it especially tough for new college graduates trying to find jobs. But huge student loan debts are

Because of the tiered nature of the various extensions -- and because beneficiaries must exhaust one tier before applying for the next -- the year-end deadline would prevent many eligible families from filing for the next level of benefits.

It’s a Friday afternoon, but there’s no shortage of palace intrigue filtering through the ranks of both Democrats and Republicans as members announce their

Speaking of Afghanistan, the Dutch government has become the first to fall over the Afghanistan war after the Labour Party walked out of a governing coalition

For 99 weeks after losing her job, Cindy Paoletti accepted New York state and federal unemployment benefits. This spring, they ran out. Now, she is drawing down her IRA to stay afloat.

A Planned Parenthood clinic just north of Dallas was the target of a Molotov cocktail late Tuesday night, police said, an attack that left a glass door broken

Sunday’s Washington Post has a good story detailing why the IRS, which has become the de facto agency for overseeing nonprofit groups’ independent expenditures

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know: There are 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, partnered with 1,500 Afghan soldiers. Does that make

A North Florida man suspected of pipe-bombing a Jacksonville mosque almost a year ago was shot and killed by FBI agents in Oklahoma last night.

A late addition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy and oil spill response bill has galvanized Republicans against the proposal. Reid, in an

After Matt Corley of ThinkProgress picked up my post about Jason Mattera’s tongue-in-cheek ghetto joke about Sonia Sotomayor, Mattera posted a response at

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Liberal Democrats have insisted the option be included to keep private companies honest, while Republicans have insisted that it be scrapped to ensure the viability of the private marketplace.

Personhood Mississippi has launched a new website to tout its “Yes on 26″ campaign, which aims to drum up publicity for an amendment that would make abortion, and possibly some forms of birth control, illegal in the state. # The website, YesOn26.net , includes a section of endorsements (which are plenty), volunteer and email lists, and several ads for the amendment, including a video entitled “Ronald Reagan endorses Personhood.” # The site also lists the members of the Yes on 26 “Advisory Board,” which is co-chaired by Mississippi Lt

According to the conservative Business and Media Institute, Republican whips are going to give their House colleagues iPod touches to keep everyone on message.