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Down in Florida, the St. Petersburg Times has launched yet another rocket at billionaire and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene: At a project called

The Washington Post is pretty sure that Obama’s advisers are congealing around abandoning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court. Apparently President Obama

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee opted to end its plenary session (after a marathon of telemarketing-style donation appeals) with a speech from Newt

Nathan Hodge of Danger Room traveled to the earthquake-stricken country and has a heartbreaking photo essay here.

While much of the discussion around the role of the Fed in improving the economy has centered on the actions of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the

This article has been updated to clarify the relationship between Life Always and Heroic Media. Not shying away from controversy, anti-abortion rights media

More bad poll numbers are greeting Democrats as they recover from Labor Day barbecues and stump speeches, raising the question of how Democratic incumbents will

If Republicans are too harsh on their members (like Delaware’s Rep. Mike Castle) for occasionally voting out of step with their party, are Democrats too

Sonia Sotomayor’s public characterization neglects her quintessential American story of growing up in public housing and then going on to graduate at the top of her class at Princeton and serve as an editor of the law review at Yale.

Bloomberg’s Ryan Donmoyer digs deeper into the question of whether the administration’s plan to scale back deductability of charity donations by wealthy

GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller has officially filed suit in federal court against the Alaska Division of Elections’ announced rules for counting write-in votes

Here’s a tea leaf, and, I’m afraid, a 2006-vintage joke. As an indication of President Obama’s continuing displeasure with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

This is nice. Four Muslims from China once confined to small prison cells as suspected terrorists at Guantánamo are now sprucing up the wide-open spaces of an

Here’s one example of how little the McCain brand is cherished by the conservative grassroots. Les Phillip, the self-identified Tea Party Republican candidate

President Obama’s comments on Friday and Saturday concerning the right of what’s now commonly referred to as the Ground Zero Mosque to break earth in downtown

While you were sleeping, Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev traveled to Prague and signed the New START nuclear-arms reductions accord,

As Congress begins the lame-duck session, both houses are under increasing pressure to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented young

Yale economist Robert Shiller has a column on inflexibility in the labor markets that provides commonsense insight into the current unemployment situation. To

Life Always, the anti-abortion group responsible for erecting billboards all over the country accusing Planned Parenthood of having racially motivated aims, is being sued by the mother of the young girl featured on the controversial billboards. # Tricia Fraser, the girl’s mother, filed a lawsuit against Life Always yesterday over the billboards erected this past February in Manhattan . # Similar billboards were also seen in Jacksonville and Houston, as well

Rep. Ray LaHood has a terrible record on the environment. The Illinois Republican, picked by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Dept. of Transportation,

You can read it in full here, but here are some interesting excerpts. He’s actually experienced in intelligence matters -- I began my public service career