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As the internet buzzed about this awkward confrontation between Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), I remembered Franken’s novel Why

I wanted to pull out part of my article from this morning, as it makes a somewhat confusing but nevertheless important point. Most policy experts and economists

BUTTE, Mont.-- Ralph Maxwell, a former attorney and judge in North Dakota, nearly shook with anger. Wearing his World War II uniform, which he hadn’t taken

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Both parties have legal teams on call, but the Republican National Lawyers Association’s success in training over 1,000 volunteer lawyers is unprecedented.

An organization that worked with the state legislature to draft laws that limit collective bargaining rights and tenure for teachers spent more than $900,000 on advertising in the first seven months of this year. The Michigan Campaign Finance Network reports that Students First , a California and D.C.-based ‘education reform’ organization, spent more than any other group on lobbying over this period.

Liberal establishment Democrats fared well against their more conservative establishment counterparts, and the party scored a win in Pennsylvania.

We’ve heard plenty of grumbling from Republicans about how they couldn’t support the recently passed economic stimulus package because it’s a spending bill,

In an interview with the Family Research Council (FRC) on Tuesday evening, Rep. Michele Bachmann admitted that the new health care law won’t be defunded in 2011. The FRC hosted a webcast called “Time to Act: How big government is fiscally and morally bankrupting America,” during which Bachmann also said she wants FRC’s membership to pray for her and other Republicans to have “supernatural abilities.” FRC’s Tony Perkins said to Bachmann, “We need to defund the government takeover of health care.

With the latest batch of Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel torture memos having revealed more of the intricate, gruesome details of the CIA’s interrogation

Amid reports that Bill Clinton tried to get Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) to drop his bid for the Senate, the real loser may be the Democrats’ other statewide

The Obama campaign announced Friday morning that it is investing new resources for a TV blitz deep in Republican territory, running new ads in North Dakota,

Lots of individual seats in Tuesday’s House and Senate races remain genuine toss-ups, but the consensus among odds-makers about the House is pretty darn clear.

A funny thing happened to University of Illinois law professor Robert Lawless on his way to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. Lawless, an expert

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) has decided to vote yes for the small-business bill, a deficit-neutral package of tax breaks that has been held up for months in

This morning, the Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that sales of new homes spiked in April. They also revised their March

Here’s the statement just released by the House Majority Leader: As we wait for all the facts to emerge about Monday’s events, several things are already

Tax-exempt nonprofit groups spent $132.5 million in the last election cycle, according to a report released Friday from New York City Public Advocate Bill de

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) embarrassing praise for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele at last night’s CPAC banquet is getting derided

Lobbyists have been busy courting top GOP House members slated to take over the chairmanships on important committees should Republicans win the House, but it’s

Today, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of its June Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Noting strong economic headwinds, the FOMC revised down its