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For months, congressional leaders and the White House have skirted the possibility of a second economic stimulus package, saying they wanted to allow time for

As Americans shift back to our habit of spending more than we make, a Marine in Ramadi, Iraq, offers a poignant reminder of just who’s making the sacrifices in

A sign of the times: I just got an email pointing me to this post, sent by an aide to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman.

Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), who gives his departing interns copies of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, told me today that the response to President Obama’s

Music fan and CIA Director Mike Hayden released this statement to the agency in the wake of President Obama’s interrogations/detentions

In a groundbreaking ruling today that directly contradicts the Bush and Obama administration’s insistence that detainees held by the U.S. government at the

Minneapolis will not be hosting the 2012 Democratic National Convention, much to the dismay of city officials and the glee of some in the anti-war movement . Charlotte, N.C., beat out Minneapolis, St

An anecdote about a 2000 visit to a casino, recounted in a recent article in The New York Times that examined Sen. John McCain’s ties to the gambling industry,

The essential part of the California Supreme Court’s analysis in upholding Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage today is that the court decided that Prop 8

The Washington Post has a good piece today about the Pentagon’s new Minerva initiative. Minerva is an effort to bridge the gap between social science and

The Virginia Legislature passed a health care bill Wednesday that bans private insurance providers from covering abortions if they participate in a state health

Thursday saw a flurry activity over the Republican-controlled Senate’s passage of what critics are calling ‘license to bully’ legislation on Wednesday morning.

<p>Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, announced Thursday that his 14th year in Congress

Adversaries in politics, they come together to accept the election. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai cheered the successful conduct of the elections. His main

Tom Theobald’s voice quavers with urgency when he talks about honey bees. The small-time commercial beekeeper sounds distressed, even fearful, when he makes

For more on the systemic failures in contracting that contribute to firms like Blackwater getting more and more security contracts after, like, killing

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, the Republican who beat out Democrat John Salazar in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District last year, is taking some political heat of late for trying to save $15,000 in federal funding on a mass transit project in the Roaring Fork Valley while simultaneously declining to oppose more than $16 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas companies reaping record profits.

Here’s the response of Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to this morning’s news that some military defense lawyers

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons) This weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention failed to draw many of the GOP candidates invited to participate: Out of the eight GOP presidential candidates, only Rick Santorum showed up to speak. Convention organizers invited a slew of speakers to talk about tea party-favored topics, such as Agenda 21 and the supposed “radicalization of Islam” in the U.S., and had scheduled a discussion among GOP presidential candidates.

Citizens United, a conservative political group based in Washington, D.C., is making independent expenditures in Senate District 18 just days before a Nov. 8 special election to decide the balance of power in the Iowa Senate.

Democrats in both houses of Congress plan to reintroduce the DREAM Act, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents.

The two cities hosting this summer’s national party conventions -- Denver and St. Paul -- have surprisingly long-standing roles in the political histrionics