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Phil Klein has the letter Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) sent to the White House vis-a-vis his refusal of $700 million of stimulus cash. The headline is probably

That’s the shrewd question that Charlie Savage raises in his Washington Memo Monday in The New York Times. Looking beyond the usual liberal-conservative

Some highlights from Ralph Z. Hallow’s interview with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, in The Washington Times: We want to convey that

At today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the strategy as being responsive to a

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Following up on President Obama’s speech on the economy in Ohio last week, in which Obama decided to make things personal and call out House Minority Leader

Don Blankenship -- the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week -- just

The Ways and Means subcommittee on income security will meet next Thursday to examine how Congress might better address the problem of long-term unemployment,

At our affiliate, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer today adds another layer to the tale of growing protest by some large investors in Massey Energy

The Obama Justice Department has asked a judge to dismiss charges against two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists accused of receiving

Charleston, W.Va. -- In my piece today, I quoted the wife of a worker at a Massey Energy coal mine who said the company denied her husband’s request to take

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) has lost his re-election bid tonight to Republican opponent Morgan Griffith, the Associated Press says. Though Boucher had an early

Public Policy Polling releases a fascinating survey of the Virginia electorate, one that gives former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), defeated in a razor-thin 2006

Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter will hold a Government in the Grocery constituent meet-up this evening from 5-7 at the Safeway at 38th and Wadsworth in Wheat Ridge. The address is 3900 Wadsworth. The meeting, where Perlmutter typically sits at a folding table and talks to whomever shows up, is free and open to the public

Democrats have been cheering the recent AARP endorsement of health reform legislation, with good reason. The group represents roughly 40 million Americans,

Lillis forwarded me this with the subject line Things Are Out of Control: A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of

Floyd Brown, the man behind the 1988 Willie Horton ad (and now a conservative activist who’s on the board of the American Conservative Union) unleashes probably

Several hundred protesters flooded the Minnesota Capitol outside the House chambers on Monday morning to urge members to forgo a vote on a proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitution that would bar same-sex marriage. As the protesters demonstrated, House members of the Rules Committee moved to put the issue on the agenda for Wednesday morning.

Interesting. A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that, by a 16-point margin, Americans still blame the recession on former President George W. Bush’s policies