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Aaron Blake has the news -- shortly after Dick Cheney’s former aides began drumming up opposition to Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, Cheney has now

Finally, a company with the temerity to go out and make a direct corporate expenditure on behalf of a candidate, or three. The Penneco Oil Company, an oil and

Great scoop by Lindsay Beyerstein: The BusBank, a sponsor of the truly wild Tea Party Express and an outfit that will transport some protesters to the 9/12

I think Mike Vanderboegh will end up making a lot of trouble for Tea Parties with this off-the-rails blog post calling, many times over, for violence against

Sarah Palin says Democrats live on a unicorn ranch in fantasy land. Carl Paladino loves giving hugs. It’s the one-year anniversary of Balloon

Newsweek’s Arian Campo-Flores has an interesting piece today about how political parties and observers should interpret the success of Latino Republican

The third-ranking Republican in the House, who had been concentrating on a campaign against cap-and-trade legislation, has swiftly become one of the most vocal

Hanaa Rifaey, president of the American Independent News Network, which publishes the Michigan Messenger, was interviewed on Free Speech TV on Tuesday about the Occupy Wall Street protests and AINN’s continuing coverage of corporate influence on elections. Video below the fold.

With unemployment still hovering near double digits, the Christian Science Monitor this week highlights a forgotten angle in the government’s efforts to help

Monday night, after weeks of pressure from Republicans to lift a federal moratorium on new offshore oil drilling, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

The candidates are mostly friendly as they take their two minute introductions. Mostly. After Katon Dawson bragged that he’d turned the South Carolina GOP

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just named the latest members of the White House deficit commission: Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.),

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is launching a new political action committee, Country First, replacing the storied Straight Talk America PAC that was folded into

Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) for U.S. Senate in Nevada, is in some hot water for remarks she made to a

It has been a quiet week on the financial regulatory reform front, but that does not mean the deal-making has stopped. With the House and Senate out of session

Carol J. Williams profiles John Yoo, who provides some of the most deliciously boastful quotes this side of a James Bond movie. He’s done, he thinks, with the

Also addressed during President-elect Barack Obama’s juicy press conference about the Blagojevich scandal was the presser’s stated subject, health

Over at TPMmuckraker, Justin Elliott remembers that during the Democratic primary, Secretary of State-designee Hillary Rodham Clinton was an enthusiastic

Great catch by North Carolina’s Progressive Pulse, which find Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), conscious of possible party of no attacks, waffling on whether a

As if Congress’ reputation isn’t dreary enough, Dr. Jack Kevorkian -- aka Dr. Death -- announced his candidacy Monday in Michigan’s 9th district, currently

Minnesota’s Episcopalians voted this weekend to oppose a ballot question that would change the Minnesota Constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples.