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As Sen. Barack Obama has learned in recent days, it’s easy to slip up when taking on economic issues in a political campaign. From Walter F. Mondale

Since Wednesday, the testimony of a former ACORN employee that the community-organizing group barely trained workers and then threw them under the bus to take

Jeff Wexler of Boca Raton said that on Sunday, a 36-year old Major, the son of two of his constituents, died in the Green Zone as the result of a mortar attack.

Now, the Democrats’ big dog: Jim Webb, the streetfighting Marine from Virginia. He started out by casually remarking that his son was in Anbar in 2006 for the

Stacy McCain reports on a new Zogby poll that, according to John Zogby, puts the president’s approval rating at about 50-50. This has got to scare Democrats

While costly, the ship was the linchpin in the sea service’s advanced strategy to patrol and fight in the most dangerous shallow sea lanes, known as littorals. Think Iraq’s national waters, where the country’s two oil terminals are located. But the Navy suddenly killed the weapon program. The explanation has pleased no one -- especially Congress.

The two leading House Democrats on environmental policy are expected to unveil a major energy and climate bill today with more ambitious goals than recent

A poll released today by Public Policy Polling shows Newt Gingrich with a commanding lead over Mitt Romney in Colorado. The poll shows Gingrich up 37-18 over Romney in Colorado.

From Beijing, President Obama says that his imminent announcement of refined Afghanistan strategy will contain some very important details: “I am very

Tax cuts are generally less stimulative than spending measures, but among tax cuts, a holiday or slashing of the payroll tax is one of the best options, the

The senators who voted last fall to approve the federal bailout of Wall Street hold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in the very banks that Washington has rescued in the nine months since.

President Obama’s speech changed a debate over entitlement programs to streamlining an inefficient health care system at the route of the problem.

As lawmakers start to shift their attention to job creation, a Brandeis University study finds that four in 10 families don’t have enough savings or assets on

This is from a U.S. District court filing from Dick Cheney’s office: ’’The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or

It’s gotten difficult to tell apart all of the Hari Seldon-ish organizations devoted to engineering a Republican/conservative comeback. Here’s a bluffer’s

Something else that’s interesting in Joe Klein’s interview with Sen. Barack Obama. Yesterday we saw John McCain severely misrepresent what the impending

Concessions to moderates would make it difficult for urban clinics to obtain federal money.