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The controversial Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones says that state Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) called him and asked to speak at his Wednesday rally but “chickened out” when it came time to stand on the Capitol steps and give a speech about his anti-foreign laws legislation. “Yeah because he chickened out,” Jones said of Agema.

Last month, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the federal government to arrange for the release of Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah from the detention center at

In writing a short piece for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I ended up learning a bit about the market for recreational vehicles -- campers, mobile

While he has said that he will consider oil spill claims regardless of geographic proximity to the spill, Kenneth Feinberg, independent administrator of the

As expected, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to send CIA Director-designate Leon Panett’a nomination to the full Senate this afternoon. Vice

As the mortgage crisis worsens and foreclosures grow, many cities now are facing the mounting challenge of cleaning up abandoned properties. They are

This is curious: twice in two weeks Politico has given rather sensational headlines to stories, then changed them later in the day. The original headline for

<p>Yesterday, on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Joe Lieberman <a title="compared"

The Senate Armed Services Committee voted yesterday to send the nomination of Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) to become the next Army secretary to the full Senate,

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), after having pledged support to the strategy articulated by his presidential rival, gets upset over the July 2011 transition

Faced with huge backlogs in immigration proceedings, Immigration and Customs Services adopted a new policy last week to cancel the deportation of thousands of

Via The Hill, Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the most centrist Democrat in the Senate, has introduced legislation requiring that any unused funds from the $26.1

It’s really, really, really difficult to be optimistic about cutting Pentagon waste. There is a massive amount of entrenched interests -- in the services, on

This weekend, I went to a wedding in Connecticut and, on the drive from Greenwich to Hartford, in the middle of the state, was surprised to see Linda McMahon’s

The former AEI fellow is taking his firing in pretty good spirits. From a party invitation going out to friends:

Here’s how history gets rewritten: Last week, the Senate killed legislation to create a bipartisan panel designed to tackle the country’s skyrocketing debt.

Anti-Obama messages pop up in diet pill ads. The GOP’s 2010 Senate prospects brighten. Cash for clunkers comes to an end -- and it hasn’t always worked as

The race to raise funds in Iowa’s 3rd and 4th Congressional Districts are among “10 FEC reports to watch,” according to Politico.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer arrests a suspect in Virginia (Pic via ice.gov) South Florida immigrant advocates will be at the Broward Transistional Center today to take part in a national day of action to protest the deportation of Shamir Ali.

UPDATE: April 7, 10:15 a.m. This article was amended for clarification of the cited petitions and updates their signature counts. As Texas-based

A new report out of the Treasury Department Tuesday confirmed what many lawmakers, housing advocates, small businesses and individual consumers have known all

Summer recalls targeting six Republicans and three Democrats attracted $43.9 million in spending from special interest groups and candidates, with Democrats outspending Republicans by almost $3 million, according to an analysis from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

Just how tough are the Obama administration’s new executive compensation limits for bailed out firms? Well, as a hint, Wall Street sees them as no threat at