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A spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has responded to Orly Taitz’s latest publicity stunt -- her claim that when Cantor accepted her Facebook request, it

Would you believe I was IMing with Hussein Ibish, senior fellow with the American Task Force on Palestine and a wise observer of all matters Arab-Israeli, about

When Nouri al-Maliki’s Iraqi Army runs for the rear against Moqtada al-Sadr’s Jaish al-Mahdi, U.S. armor rides to Maliki’s rescue. We’re now in the thick of an

At this morning’s Senate hearing on the D.C. Voting Rights Act, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) were

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr Since American Crystal Sugar locked out union workers on Aug.

Public Policy Polling’s habit of asking revealing, bizarre questions continues with a survey of New Jersey voters that finds—as President Obama’s approval

Really too disgusting for words: ABC reports that two women have come forward to accuse the CIA’s Algeria station chief of drugging and raping them. (Via

The investigation into the oil spill BP released today is already causing waves. In the report, BP spread the blame for the spill among multiple companies,

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Sadly, I’m working on other things, but I’m listening to the livestream of an extremely powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing featuring

Campaign finance spending will exceed $6 billion this year, and one man deserves a fair amount of the credit -- election lawyer James Bopp, architect of the

University of New Mexico administrators have issued a new permit for members of the “99 percent” movement to protest at Yale Park, which is on UNM’s campus.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is targeting newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for voting today to keep Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams is positioned to become a credible Obama critic, if he picks up Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat.

Weeks after Gov. Terry Branstad issued a line-item veto to close 36 Iowa Workforce Development field offices statewide, Republicans are sending a message to their Democratic counterparts who wanted to hold a special session to override the veto. No thanks, they’re saying

It’s an annual event as predictable as the blooming cherry blossoms: Every spring, the group assigned to diagnosis the fiscal health of Medicare delivers a grim

Huge piece from Barbara Slavin of The Washington Times. Before the June 12 election, President Obama wrote a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali

Among the many facets of the broad health care reform plan that President Obama offered tonight during a speech before a joint session of Congress was a small

There were 564 amendments filed to the enormous health reform bill being considered this week in the Senate Finance Committee. This morning -- 26 hours after

The Minnesota Catholic Conference, the policy wing of Minnesota’s Catholic bishops, and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) have registered political action funds (PACs) with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. The two funds join the Minnesota Family Council Marriage Protection Fund in hopes of raising money to convince voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The PACs will allow the groups to raise money for political activity surrounding the 2012 ballot initiative.

Until now, Republicans and some moderate Democrats have refused to support an Obama administration plan to keep tax breaks for middle-class families but to let