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Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin, who headed the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush after the

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has announced he will launch a 2012 presidential exploratory committee, which allows him to begin raising money in the

Conservatives see victory in the stalled nomination of a normally uncontroversial post.

Most immigration legislation is expected to stall next legislative session, as a heavily pro-enforcement House attempts to get bills past a president and Senate

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Bad news for Orly Taitz, the indefatigable birther attorney. On September 17, she filed a motion of consideration on behalf of her client Capt. Connie Rhodes,

Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin, is still on track to publish Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-S.C.) book Within Our Means. The New York Observer checked in with

To hear Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder (R) tell it, he and his colleagues in the Ohio General Assembly are nearly in the poor house. “I know a lot of

The author of Liberal Fascism falls hook, line and sinker for Bill Ayers’ joke about serving as Barack Obama’s ghostwriter. I am not sure what to make of the

Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar are holding a meeting tomorrow of industry stakeholders, key government officials and

RELATED: Video from Torture Hearing If last week’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on torture represented a watershed of disclosure, today’s

A rare joint talk Thursday exposed some differences their countries have with the Obama administration’s new strategy to confront extremism in South Asia, as well as with each other.

Since its inception, the health insurance industry has fought doctors over payments, dropped patients when they’ve gotten sick and denied coverage for those

Politicians tend to portray the clean energy movement as a zero-sum game, but advances in China can boost the American economy.

Over at the liberal Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, LaDonna Pavetti is taking a look at federal welfare reform, which turns 15 this year. # She contends the program’s recent performance shows it can be a weak safety net. For one thing, as unemployment has surged, the number of people receiving temporary cash assistance through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, has increased only slightly , and at a slower rate than the number seeking food stamps.

Remember how I said on Tuesday to keep a watch on what Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, says about Afghanistan now that