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Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who faced a tough audience of town hall screamers over the weekend, gave his take on the experience to CNN today: This wasn’t

A ban on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a technique used in some forms of stem cell research, passed the House and Senate floors on Tuesday evening in a pair of higher education budget bills. The bills would prohibit state or federal funding from going toward SCNT stem cell research. The two bills are headed to conference committee, where the two bodies will hash out the parts of the bills that differ

The American Principles Project has just launched ExpelJennings.org, a blog dedicated to ousting Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education via online

Cordlin Comer, a Grand Rapids area man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to failing to disclose his HIV positive status to a female sexual partner, faces less than a year in jail.

It’s looking that way. Observers had expected a drawn-out battle over Senate Democrats’ plans to overhaul the nations financial regulations in favor of more

Following conservative columnist Kathleen Parker’s call last week for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to step aside as the Republican vice presidential nominee,

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today -- four years after it was asked -- that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have more rights to information

Freed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee say they entered North Korea. Tom Ridge disputes information culled from the dust jacket of his new book. Is

It was a tough day to be Herbert Allison. The Treasury official charged with monitoring the $700 billion Wall Street bailout appeared Thursday before the

Conservative fire-starter John Ziegler, the radio host and producer of the pro-Sarah Palin movie Media Malpractice, got booted from a panel at this weekend’s

Joan Lowy talks to a spokeswoman for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) about his comment that President Obama’s support for legal abortion made him an enemy of

It’s Friday, so it’s time for another amusingly tone-deaf Harold Ford, Jr. interview. This one, in the New York Post, got me wondering whether Ford had New York

Brad Setser at Follow the Money gets it exactly right today: It looks like the U.S. government’s no-bailout policy lasted all of two days. Adding to that

The American Center for Law and Justice is the first conservative legal group (that I’ve seen, at least) to pivot to a full-out repeal campaign. From their

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John Hickenlooper is an officeholder and a politician and yet he is well liked among the public. According to a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling last

That’s what The Associated Press is reporting, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the investigation. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former

This is a fantastic story in both senses of the term: elegantly written and reported by The Washington Post’s Anthony Shadid; and substantively a Good Thing.

With violence reaching pre-invasion levels in Aghanistan, negotiations with the Taliban may be needed.

I’m in an overstuffed ballroom at the Willard hotel for the third annual conference of the Center for a New American Security, where the commander of U.S.

I’m at the Omni Shoreham hotel today for the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, where the tone was set by former United Nation Ambassador’s slashing