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Today, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its 2010 report on the state of the American housing market. The verdict? Not good, if stable. The

Newt Gingrich spent the last week promoting a liveblog of the health care summit at his Center for Health Transformation, with expert commentary and the

HALT, an immigration-enforcement bill, is necessary because President Obama is seeking “backdoor amnesty” for millions of undocumented immigrants, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Tuesday during a House Judiciary committee hearing

The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) is getting some serious help in his Senate primary contest against billionaire Jeff

In a rote column about liberals stifling dissent, The Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone argues that the two most violent incidents at this summer’s town

Wow. A federal judge has ordered the release of five of six Algerian enemy-combatant defendants from Guantanamo Bay -- including Lakhdar Boumediene himself, the

Alex Koppelman is a must-read on the subject of Lou Dobbs, and his decision to trust the incredibly strange, discredited conspiracy theories of people like Orly

After some confusion over what the party would do, the GOP will offer a privileged resolution calling for an investigation of the Democratic leadership’s

Human Life International has revamped its website, prochoiceviolence.com . According to the group, the site “provides extensive research on the surprising amount of violence perpetrated by abortionists and the proponents of ‘choice,’ compared to the relatively few violent crimes committed by ‘pro-life’ advocates.” # The site includes a 35-page introduction that explains things such as “the difference between ‘pro-life’ violence and ‘pro-choice’ violence” and how “the pro-life movement the most peaceful social movement of all time.” The site says that “homosexual activists… environmental and animal rights activists… anti-apartheid activists… communists… and unions” are far more violent than “pro-lifers” have been

Brian Beutler at TPM reports that under pressure from Senate primary challenger Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) says he’d vote for Office

This should have happened a long time ago: Banks that received government bailout money and continue to charge consumers excessive fees on credit cards and

In Ohio on Tuesday, voters went to the polls and repealed a law that prohibits collective bargaining by public employee unions. But some voters received robocalls from proponents of that law telling them that the voting was on Wednesday

Over at our sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Todd Heywood reports that he just conducted a phone interview with Palestinian journalist Sameh Habeeb, who is

Washington’s prognosticators have all but written off a strong public option as part of the health reforms working their way through Congress. But don’t tell

The Philadelphia Inquirer has the first negative TV ad in the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race, with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) needling Pat Toomey — who

It was a big weekend for pushback from Tea Party groups that have been accused of exploiting their fellow activists. Not long after Tea Party Nation blasted its

The conservative author who makes a living offending liberals takes a tiny step into the land of Obama birth certificate theories with a throwaway line in her

EPA has asked nine hydraulic fracturing service providers to voluntarily hand over information about the chemicals the companies use in removing natural gas

White voters who might sour on the president are more likely to turn out than the young and black voters who made up his margin of victory in 2008.

WATERTOWN, NY - Early this afternoon, I contacted Dede Scozzafava’s former campaign manager Matt Burns, who told me that since she left the race he was not

Sen. Hutchison (R-Texas) and Rep. Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) each announced this year that they would resign in 2010 to campaign for governor of their respective

Like Carter, Craig stepped down this year from a position that put him in charge of Guantanamo-related decisions. Craig resigned as White House Counsel this