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Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will head the conference committee charged with reconciling the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform. The

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Crisis averted. With his right hand shielding his eyes and dabbing at his eyes with a tissue, Omar Khadr returned to court for his pre-trial

An example of the effects of Nebraska’s new fetal pain abortion law, which went into effect last October, was publicized in a recent interview Danielle Deaver

A group of Oregon National Guardsmen returning from Iraq recently noticed that that the medical care the Army provided at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington

On Friday, The American Independent reported that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) received more Koch Industries money than any other candidate for U.S. Senate in the

U.S. Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) appeared recently on the South Florida-based program The Shalom Show and said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim

The Defense Department, after discharging gay soldiers under the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, apparently sends them bills requiring them to pay back “unearned portions” of their contracts.

Late last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council had a good post explaining why California’s Proposition 26, which voters in the state approved last

I voted early on Friday, since I’m about to board a plane to go to Ft. Leavenworth for a TWI assignment. And while I waited on the hour-long line at One

US. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is again pushing for legislation to require top officials from the Obama administration as well as Senate leadership to purchase health care from the soon-to-be established health care exchanges.

A new conservative activist hidden-camera video dropped on the internet Tuesday as part of a multi-state effort to catch Planned Parenthood staff on tape offering assistance to men running a child prostitution ring . The immediate aim of the video and its wide distribution is to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding

The online betting site -- with a record on these matters slightly better than that of the average political pundit -- is seeing a big surge in Obamacare to

The presidential campaign for Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced members of its Iowa team Friday.

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Herman Cain has announced that he will attend the Republican Party of Sarasota’s “Statesman of the Year” dinner , to honor Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla

Offering comparison charts of educational town hall meetings over the past several months, Iowa Senate Democrats charged their party’s offerings have been held at more more family- and teacher-friendly times.

The salient paragraph from the indictment of Faisal Shahzad in May’s attempted bombing in Times Square: In December 2009, Shahzad received explosives training

The Personhood Mississippi logo (Pic via Facebook) Mississippians will decide today whether or not to approve a so-called “fetal personhood” amendment — a deeply divisive measure that would define life as beginning at the moment of conception. A new poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling , found that support for Amendment 26 stood at 45 percent, while opposition was at 44 percent. Only hours before the vote, groups continued to come out to either support or oppose the amendment

One year after the Beer Summit, Democrats are once again on the defensive on race. Jerry Brown (D) on Meg Whitman (R): I’ve overseen thousands of

National People’s Action and the Public Accountability Initiative are up with a report on financial links between payday lenders, Main Street banks and Wall