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Rep. Parker Griffith’s (D-Ala.) comment that he wouldn’t support Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in another vote for Speaker of the House has been manna for the

From a pool report: We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran and obviously, after the speech that I made in Cairo, we

The Troubled Asset Relief Program’s inspector general, Neil Barofsky is out with a scathing report today, contending the program already is marred by tax and

Classified for years -- and still heavily redacted -- here is former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s 2004 report into the CIA’s Bush-era interrogations

Over the weekend, NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported that a senior aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) confirmed that McConnell, at a meeting of

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential

Feeding into right-wing hysteria, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Ginigrich told a tea party audience in Orlando this month that if he were elected president, one of his very first executive orders would be cutting funding to the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world. The initiative is a non-binding program that provides local communities that seek to grow in a manner that is kind to the environment with resources such as grant and conference announcements.

Underfunded, understaffed and riddled with gaps, Iowa’s mental health system is broken. Such is the dismal assessment of advocates, state and county officials and families who have sought care

For more than a year, conservative journalist Jack Cashill has argued that a textual analysis of Dreams From My Father reveals that it was ghostwritten for

The fight over re-mapping Ohio’s congressional districts has become a savage partisan battleground in Columbus, and could even result in a referendum that

So many awesome signs. (Click to enlarge.) This one was interesting. When I asked her if she was on Medicare, she said no, but she was carrying the sign

Shortly before his appearance alongside Rep. Allen West, potential U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner and others at a “South Florida Tea Party Tax Rally” on Saturday , Donald Trump spoke with The Shark Tank , a conservative Florida blog, about his belief in a conspiracy to cover up the fact that President Obama was not born in the United States.

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) just unveiled their much-anticipated climate and energy bill and expressed optimism that they had the

“Mr. Secretary, I’m not a man that fears this administration or you,” Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) told Geithner. “But I do fear the accumulation of power exercised by someone in the future that can be extraordinary.”

This should come as no surprise: Even the mere mention of the possibility of bringing back cramdown legislation prompted the Mortgage Bankers Association to

In a sign that Republican-led attacks on public unions’ collective bargaining rights may be reaching a tipping point on their way to widespread application,