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Enough with DADT already: Duncan Hunter wants to open a hermaphrodites-in-the-military debate. Obama’s jab at Vegas is too much for Ensign and Reid. One

As The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin reported last week, GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth might be down in the polls, and he might have just a fifth of the

As Sen. Barack Obama has learned in recent days, it’s easy to slip up when taking on economic issues in a political campaign. From Walter F. Mondale

Public Policy Polling surveyed Iowa voters on potential Republican 2012 presidential candidates and found former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with a twelve-point

To follow on Ari’s post about Rachel Maddow’s interview with Obama, Maddow asked a question about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. Obama has consistently argued

Here are more photos (see round one here) from the Code Red rally against health care reform that shook the upper Senate Park this afternoon.

No one likes to lose. But losing represents a chance to start again, to build something out of lessons learned and mistakes made. It provides the opportunity for new people to begin to mold the Republican Party in ways that senior leadership had resisted.

Since Wednesday, the testimony of a former ACORN employee that the community-organizing group barely trained workers and then threw them under the bus to take

The Village Voice’s correspondent-on-the-right, Roy Edroso, does another round-up of conservatives and libertarians who want to go Galt as President Obama

Following news that world leaders had reached a climate deal, President Obama just held a press conference in Copenhagen, calling the agreement an important

<p>So things may not be so great in Iraq after all: suicide bombing is <a

Jeff Wexler of Boca Raton said that on Sunday, a 36-year old Major, the son of two of his constituents, died in the Green Zone as the result of a mortar attack.

Not Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) if he can help it. As Mike flagged yesterday, Waxman, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,

I’ve heard several times that we shouldn’t count out Gov. Sarah Palin as a national political force because she brings out tens of thousands of people to her

We wrote recently that Democrats could have a tough time passing their big-ticket priorities next year because some freshman members -- many of whom represent

Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker has a terrific roundup on how hyped-up fears of voter fraud in swing states never came to pass. The secretaries of state in