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Conservative activists and Republican politicians have, thus far in the Obama presidency, largely escaped the negative attention generated by the movement’s fringes.

I’ve written in the past about the evolution of the anti-jihadist blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and

The leak I got yesterday from Kandahar expressing skepticism that counterinsurgency can bring the nine-year war in Afghanistan to a successful conclusion has

Tim Pawlenty’s courting of young voters with pop-culture references didn’t go unnoticed by one media icon: Stephen Colbert . At a gathering of Iowa college Republicans Saturday, Pawlenty said Barack Obama won’t keep the youth vote because “he duped the young people in this country.” Dropping references to Charlie Sheen, tiger blood and Lady Gaga, Pawlenty said young people have a “Bad Romance” with Obama. “I gotta say,” Colbert said, “it’s like Pawlenty ripped those references from the headlines, then stored them in a drawer for a couple of months, then re-ripped them from his drawer and put them in a speech

Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the

President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation. The Keystone XL pipeline would carry highly polluting Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada all the way to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Environmental groups argue that the pipeline is unnecessary and a threat to ecosystems in the wake of the million gallon oil spill here in Michigan last July

The Washington Post today follows up on Wednesday’s New York Times story on how the White House refused to open EPA emails containing a document saying that

In a position paper released Monday morning, the American Academy of Pediatrics changed its HIV testing recommendations for teens. Previously, the Academy recommended testing only for those youth who admitted to sexual activity, but now the group recommends all teenagers ages 16-18 in areas of the country with prevalence rates of .1 percent or higher be tested regularly, reports CNN.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is expected to combat what he regards is an example of government overreach by flooding the mark up session of the country’s main

As everyone already knows, 2009 was a terrible economic year for a lot of Americans, but some people had it worse than others. A handy table in today’s Wall

This week, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new price hike. The change doesn’t affect the price of a basic first-class stamp, so it’s gone unnoticed by most

Maybe that crazy lady at the McCain rally was right after all. The Times of London reports that a tribe of Bedouins -- a group of historically nomadic Arabs

Human Rights First, which staunchly opposes any decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 conspirators in a military commission, convened a

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Charles Smith at Seeking Alpha has an interesting post estimating that the number of people living in their homes but not paying their mortgages -- people

Michael Bromwich -- who was appointed by the Obama administration to reform the former Minerals Management Service (MMS), the agency that was responsible for

An upcoming Senate vote could be crucial to the implementation of the EPA’s Florida water quality rules, and much of the pressure rests on the shoulders of Sen. Bill Nelson.

The Home Affordable Modification Program, HAMP, continues to sputter, converting 26.7 percent fewer trial modifications into permanent modifications in

The massive protests at the White House in opposition to the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline continued on Tuesday with 60 people, including actress Margot Kidder, being arrested and taken to jail. The Huffington Post did a video report from the site of the protests, including an interview with protest organizer Bill McKibben.

Are there any judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit without substantial holdings in oil and gas? Not many, notes the Alliance for Justice in

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced a little while ago that he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation when the Senate Judiciary

Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Conservative Republican Forum podcast on Saturday that she was “heartsick” in learning on Friday that the new Republican majority in the U.S. House was powerless to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Sea turtles are washing up dead along the Gulf Coast, leading scientists to suspect that the oil spill could be to blame. Brian Skoloff of The Associated Press