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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will hold two town hall meetings Tuesday in eastern Iowa and four more the following week in central and

Joseph Farah, who sparred over the birther conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column -- a promo for

Here’s one thing that bears mentioning now that it appears Leon Panetta is President-elect Barack Obama’s to head the CIA. Given the worries about whether John

A bipartisan group of more than 120 judges, prosecutors, diplomats, former members of Congress and high-level military and government officials yesterday

Amid news that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic performs therapy aimed at “curing” gays and lesbians of homosexuality, the nation’s largest “ex-gay” organization, Exodus International, announced it will hold its annual conference, “Exodus Freedom,” in St. Paul next year.

Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) are still fine-tuning the details of a compromise on oil spill liability they hope will be incorporated

Charitable giving is a time-honored strategy for turning money into influence. If you don’t want to give money to a politician’s PAC, try making a contribution

McCain’s presidential crusade perseveres even as Act of God isolates his pick for vice president.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell just put out the following statement about Bush’s updated executive order governing the intelligence

I have already seen a few emails and advisories going around, blaring that Democrats are planning massive tax hikes for Jan. 1! The Chamber of Commerce, for

<p>I used to wake up every morning and worry about Jim Traficant.</p> <p>Traficant was the congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, and

A libel and defamation suit lodged by social conservative historian David Barton is being called an “intimidation tactic” and an attack on free speech by

A new study has found that corporations have instituted a number of policies to reduce campaign finance spending while the number of corporate boards overseeing

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich seemed to steal the show Saturday evening at a presidential forum hosted by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, focusing mostly on economics as several other GOP hopefuls tried to convince the social conservative crowd they have the strongest stances against abortion and same-sex marriage

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News wrote an interesting profile of Todd Palin’s 87-year-old grandmother this week that offers a

This July, Governor Susana Martinez, a descendant of illegal immigrants, implemented what she called a residency certification program — an effort to review the authenticity of foreign nationals’ drivers licenses. The state currently has about 85,000 licenses issued to foreign nationals. State district judge Sarah Singleton issued a preliminary injunction against the program back on September 22

It doesn’t get Democrats any closer to 60 votes for climate legislation, but Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) efforts to cross the aisle and help craft a

Though the paper came under fire by FSU’s President last week for allegedly “misconstruing the facts,” the St. Petersburg Times is continuing its investigation into a controversial relationship between billionaire Charles Koch and the public university

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) The Stem Cell Action Coalition is calling on Mississippi voters to reject Amendment 26, also known as the “personhood” amendment, at the ballot box on Nov. 8.

Yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, who forever tried to prevent the U.S. military from bolstering its forces in Iraq or for adopting counterinsurgency strategy there,

Volcker is celebrated as the Federal Reserve chairman who broke the plague of global inflation in the early 1980s. But he did it be engineering a violent crackdown on excess credit. Why a ’Burkean’ conservative can support this Democratic nominee.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been receiving a lot of media attention for his gadfly role as ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform

Here’s a supplement to Aaron’s great photo spread from this afternoon’s rally. Remember: Fox News reported on these rallies. It didn’t promote