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Via The Hill, here’s House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) telling Fox News yesterday that the extended debate over Democratic priorities (ie, health care

One of the world’s premier global warming deniers, Sen. James Inhofe , R-OK, Monday endorsed Rick Perry for president. Colorado politics watchers may remember it was shortly before last November’s election that Inhofe came to Colorado to engage in some joint campaigning with senate candidate Ken Buck

Bucking conventional legal strategy, Rod Blagojevich has done more than 100 media interviews since his arrest in 2008. Former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer has

Napolitano sees no vindication for a Department of Homeland Security report over recent violence.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has never been much a fan of Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection

Now that Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is home for recess, the local papers continue to further the story on his ethics probe in Washington. First, on Saturday,

After 17 years of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the next bill authorizing the Department of Defense’s budget will contain a provision instructing the Pentagon to

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) just denounced Supreme Court Justice John Roberts’ disingenuous umpire theory of judging -- his oft-quoted statement that the

There are signs of capitulation -- or at least there is some clarification -- coming from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the GOP member Democrats believe to be

Some troubling findings today out of the Woodstock Institute, which examined home lending trends in seven major cities to discover that banks have scaled back

Confronting the skeptics, President Obama over the weekend told reporters that he’s confident the Senate this year can pass ambitious legislation to address the

The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks nationwide, after lawmakers on Monday easily hopped the procedural

Last week, I noted that House Republicans had introduced a motion to penalize strategic defaulters -- underwater homeowners who simply stop paying their

A local anti-abortion group is set to picket a Children’s Services Council meeting on Thursday morning in an effort to stop funds from going to a local Planned Parenthood for comprehensive sex education programs. The group, St. Lucie Taxpayers against Tax Funding of Planned Parenthood, will protest the possibility of the local Children’s Services Council (CSC) renewing funding to Planned Parenthood after years of contributing to the group

J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman from Arizona who announced a primary bid against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) this month, is all over CPAC. Last night he

Unlike Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who was getting clobbered in his bid for reelection this year, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) had a great shot of retaining the

Today’s news that former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer was under arrest provided state Democrats with new glue in their ongoing effort to stick his spending

Barely a week ago, the Iraqi government was refusing to sign a status of forces agreement with the U.S. military, despite the agreement’s guarantee of a

What do I mean when I say that the inspectors general report on warrantless surveillance shows a larger role for CIA in the post-9/11 surveillance efforts than

“We bailed out the banks and the insurance companies. Now it’s time to bail out the American people,” urged the Rev. Al Sharpton.

UPDATE: Bradley Smith posted a comprehensive explanation of his views here, and criticized this post for not making it clear that contributions by foreign