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The Iowa Tea Party kicks off its three-week bus tour across the Hawkeye State today in Council Bluffs, with an appearance by former New Mexico governor and GOP candidate Gary Johnson . Iowa Tea Party Chairman Ryan Rhodes said candidates who make appearances on the bus tour stops will be able to meet people and the public will be allowed to ask them questions.

Today, two newspaper articles made a splash in the blogosphere. One noted that one in six Americans -- 50 million people -- relies on food stamps, welfare

Sen. Chuck Schumer said this morning he hopes the $600 million border security bill will convince Republicans to come to the table to work on comprehensive

The breakdowns of the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that asked 2,400 people about where they believe the president was born are revealing. As Steve Benen and

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll adds to the pool of evidence that despite assertions from legislators stating that the vast majority of Americans oppose same-sex marriage, it is actually beginning to enjoy wide mainstream acceptance for the first time in American history.

Check out this New York Times piece about the Afghanistan debate’s latest shifts in the White House. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense

Spanish prosecutors have decided to go ahead with a criminal investigation of the six senior lawyers -- including former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Dear Tea Partiers, I’d like to address you in good faith for a moment. I noticed today you had some strong feelings about what you consider to be

Scott, who has never held elected office, ran on his business experience as a former health care executive despite the fact that he was forced out after his company paid $1.7 billion to the U.S. government for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

Update: I wrote a second post on this topic after talking with the CJR reporter. Here it is. Reading this post in the Columbia Journalism Review over the

President Obama made six recess appointments Wednesday, allowing officials to bypass Senate confirmation to serve for approximately one year. One of those

The caught-on-tape run-in with Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) is not his first unpleasant encounter. A coalition of Tea Party groups is urging sponsors to

As if there weren’t enough news going on already, Washington Mutual goes belly up in the largest bank failure in U.S. history, and JP Morgan Chase buys up all

Top GOP figures have generally pledged to take the president at his word, that he’s a Christian, tacitly leaving the door open for speculation among the

LANSING, Mich. — Thousands of people descended on the Michigan Capitol earlier today as part of a national movement of tea parties to protest high taxes

Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) toes the party line, endorsing Marco Rubio over successor Charlie Crist. Independent campaign spending this year is up four

The presidential exploratory campaign for former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, is announcing new additions to its Iowa and New Hampshire teams.

Gov. Susana Martinez, Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, and Rep.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday its monthly jobs report showing that the unemployment rate declined from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent -- a decrease