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The drip, drip, drip of possible scandal keeps falling on Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). Gov. Mark Sanford left the Governor’s Mansion without a security

I’m remiss for not mentioning, as Josh Foust does, that Lt. General Stanley A. McChrystal has to answer for detainee abuse in Iraq, as well as the Pat Tillman

Speaking at the U.N. conference on Afghanistan today at The Hague, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said: The status of Afghanistan’s army, the

One of the enduring confusions amid the debate over extending unemployment benefits revolves around the fact that the Democrats’ proposals don’t actually extend

Last week, The American Independent was first to report that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) had added a section on medical marijuana to its treatment

When Arizona passed its highly controversial immigration bill -- which among other provisions requires police to ask people about their legal status if they

Bruce Bartlett writes that there is little the Fed or the Treasury can do to winnow down unemployment in the face of congressional intransigence on additional

Abu Muqawama’s pseudonymous guest blogger has a good post giving some reasons for not freaking out over the recent spate of high-profile Iraq bombings. S/he

Wells Fargo & Co. tops the list of companies receiving the largest tax breaks since 2008, according to a joint study from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

Despite the controversy caused in Pakistan by misunderstandings about the bill, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs just sent out this statement: Earlier

Building on yesterday’s announcement that Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) didn’t have the votes to strip funding for the Air Force’s F-22 fighter jet from the defense

Crossroads GPS, a conservative policy and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., is targeting Iowa voters with TV ads in the state’s largest media market. Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, which has ties to former White House deputy chief Karl Rove, has spent $85,125 so far at KCCI, the local CBS affiliate in Des Moines and the state’s largest network TV station.

Minutes after Senate aides briefed reporters on the details of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy bill, disappointed interest groups -- both

Afghan Ambassador Said Jawad doesn’t like people saying candidly that his government and its NATO partners aren’t winning the war against the Taliban-led

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While usually attendees at the annual Values Voter Summit focus on hot button social issues, this year the hotel buzzed with the 10th amendment and national debt.

Don’t miss this excellent and heartfelt post from Brandon Friedman of VoteVets, the progressive veterans’ organization, going after the 1000 retired generals

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder has a wonderful catch. Take a look at these screen grabs from the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National

The crisis is no accident, experts argue, but instead represents a failure on the part of many states to build up a funding cushion during the good years that could see them through the bad.

We ran a piece today touching on the difficulty of fixing an economy broken by the bursting of something as large as the recent housing bubble. That is, if the