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NASHVILLE -- Now for sale at the National Tea Party Convention: tea bag jewelry, courtesy of the Tea Party Emporium, a co-sponsor of the event.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has voted no on the cloture motion to start debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill -- meaning the

The PBS star attracted crowds to what appeared on the surface as a way to help black borrowers build wealth, but a lawsuit alleges it was actually just the opposite.

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After 30 years of war, Afghanistan’s economy is based around opium and foreign aid. But an important New York Times piece reports that geological data indicate

The continued expansion of the so-called Secure Communities program, which sends the fingerprints of suspects booked at local jails to the federal immigration

Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, plays the liberal to the former congressman’s conservative. That makes her endorsement of

Political communicators will seize any tool to reach voters. While email and blogs do heavy lifting on the campaign trail, both parties are experimenting

There’s no sugarcoating this. Israel is looking like a country that is quickly losing its mind. Consider this statement: In an interview Tuesday, Ambassador

A congressional hearing Wednesday by the House oversight committee promised to assess the evidence on abstinence-only sex education. That

Tomorrow, the House Financial Services Committee, headed by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), will hear testimony regarding the Valukas Report -- a lawyer’s

As fire crews continue battling some of the worst blazes this dry state has seen in years, Texas Gov. Rick Perry took a break from his presidential campaign

If I can say something that isn’t about Gaza for a minute, Jeff Stein at CQ has a great piece about how Barack Obama can’t find someone to become CIA director

As national attention has become focused on the struggle by Holland residents to pass a non-discrimination ordinance, the anti-gay Family Research Council’s political arm rolled its “Values Voter’s Bus” into west Michigan Monday. The Grand Rapids Press reports the bus stopped in Holland Monday morning.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) The anti-abortion group Kansans for Life is taking aim at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Kansas Gov

RNC officials support reform, but worry whether states will be able to comply with the new guidelines and whether avoiding winner-takes-all primaries might privilege grassroots candidates.

The push to preempt Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) as a potential running mate for Sen. Barack Obama is growing today. TPM covers a swift spike in membership for

It seems that the Goldman Sachs executives testifying before Congress this week didn’t do a very good job convincing the powers that be that their investment

On Wednesday, Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly will try to quash Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell’s proposed amendment to ban state insurance

Michigan’s teachers are warning the public that the deep cuts to elementary and secondary education spending proposed by Gov. Snyder, combined with the newly signed Emergency Manager bill, pose a grave threat to the state’s education system. Gov.