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A new CNN poll has found, for what I think is the first time, a majority of Americans opposed to the war in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials and

Scarce as the water is in West Texas today, the people charged with protecting western counties’ long-term supply can’t say for sure where it’s all going —

It’s got to be Barack’s in the basement from The Washington Times, which argues that at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the

The presidential campaigns of U.S. Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul have announced additional support in the Hawkeye State

House lawmakers on Thursday easily passed legislation to eliminate billions of dollars in federal subsidies to private insurers offering low-rate student loans.

Faisal Shahzad, already guilty in the world court of Self-Defeating Terrorists, has pleaded guilty to a ten-count indictment on terrorism charges. According to

Here’s a copy of Rep. Eliot Engel’s (D-N.Y.) legislation that would prevent BP from claiming a $10 billion tax deduction from the cost of responding to the

Ending increasing speculation about the fate of his controversial daily show at Fox News, Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he was ending his three-year run. The show will go off the air “later this year” according to a release

Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post writes a curtain-raiser on the unveiling of a story I broke about the contours of the Obama administration’s new team for

As Obama’s favorability drops, critics are questioning the usefulness of his pledge of support for immigration reform. One Democratic aide told Time that

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Lawmakers from at least 25 states have pledged to pass copycat laws to Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. There are a number of reasons these plans might not

It’s hardly a surprise now when Republican leaders align themselves with the Tea Party movement, and the Values Voter Summit has been full of it. Rep. Mike

The U.S. Supreme Court today avoided striking down the Voting Rights Act by broadening the ability of political subdivisions to bail out of the requirement that

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has made no secret of his pro-business agenda since taking office in January. It may come as little surprise, then, that his campaign

Via Huffington Post. From the Where Have We Heard This Before? file, Mother Jones reports that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is withholding more than 1,000 emails

Marc Ambinder follows up on my question to John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism aide, about what role Brennan played in domestic surveillance

In addition to taking jobs and increasing crime, anti-immigration groups have argued, immigrants are bad for their environment. For groups like the

Senate Democrats will continue their budget hearings into a second week, officials said Monday. Tuesday’s hearing will focus on property tax, which became a point of contention between Democrats and Gov

Afghanistan reporting appears to have ended in 2006 and in Iraq reports stopped in 2008.

The Hill reports that Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is asking leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works panel to delay any examinations of the Gulf oil

Several months ago, I asked many Republicans if Sen. John McCain could win the election without the support of the party’s base. After all, the base --