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A surprisingly emotional statement from Defense Secretary Robert Gates about Rep. Jack Murtha’s passing. I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jack

RENO, Nev. -- Sen. Barack Obama is not taking the bait -- for now. Strolling off his plane with cell phone in hand, the Democratic presidential nominee

<p>Last week, a California <a id="mg0x" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340272,00.html" target="_blank"

Today, the Labor Department reported (PDF) that the number of available jobs remained mostly unchanged between July and August -- holding at about 3.2 million.

Obama trails Republicans in 2012 presidential match-ups. Colorado Republicans prepare for possibility of Scott McInnis dropping out of the race. The

A decade of cuts in federal combined with states mimicking Bush administration tax cuts have led states to fill revenue shortfalls with regressive tax policies.

Sen. Barack Obama needs young voters to keep turning out at unusually high rates in order to win in November. While his campaign adeptly mobilized them in

As reported here on Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee set the Obama administration’s plans for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay back

Just two days after receiving a letter from the White House urging that a public plan be part of the Democrats’ health reform strategy, Senate Finance Committee

New York Republicans are salivating over the House seat that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is leaving behind to take an appointment as Secretary of State

As Kate pointed out a few weeks back, the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month stalled 79 applications for new surface mines in the Appalachian

In case you missed it, Blackwater founder Erik Prince outed himself as a CIA asset in an extraordinary Vanity Fair interview. Prince complained that powerful

Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) isn’t using the last name he shares with father Harry Reid in a new ad. Rod Blagojevich called Obama’s purported

In the latest bit of brazen slander from the right, Republican Senators are trying to invent a scandal about Justice Department lawyers who -- horror --

Remember when Condoleezza Rice, perhaps the most disastrously inept national security adviser in history, snapped at a Stanford student that the United States

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The Weekly Standard’s intrepid John McCormack tried, with some success, to ask Dede Scozzafava some uncomfortable questions. He got the N.Y. special election

The Obama administration may have just failed the first big test of its promises to end unwarranted government secrecy. According to a decision issued

By refusing to allow Guantanamo detainees to be transferred anywhere in the United States, including its supermax prisons, those representatives in Congress