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The Senate Armed Services Committee might still not have Gen. David Petraeus’s eight-minute statement on the military’s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow

One of the central flaws of safety net programs is that they become most necessary during recessions when states are least able to afford the influx of

Sen. Barack Obama is tapping his sizable political cell phone network to help Hurricane Gustav relief. On Monday, he issued a personal plea via text message to

Every city has its own variation of political scandal. In Los Angeles, it’s usually about complicated land grabs and water. Many people view

I first encountered former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) at a 2007 forum on, of all things, the media, at the 2007 Yearly Kos convention. (Starting in 2008, the

The Colorado Division of Wildlife is looking for two, maybe three potential Darwin Award recipients who bought hamburgers and cheeseburgers at the Burger King in Eagle on Wednesday and hand fed them to a mother black bear and her three cubs. “This is an extraordinary example of stupid and irresponsible behavior by people,” said CDOW northwest regional manager Ron Velarde, according to RealVail.com .

July is the bloodiest month for the United States in Afghanistan since the war began almost eight years ago. The entire defense establishment has warned that

Josh Rogin reports that multiple sources are saying Jim Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, is being headhunted for a position running Georgetown

Although some in GOP politics have called her actions “ divisive ,” freshman lawmaker and tea party favorite Kim Pearson is only making good on a promise. Pearson, a Pleasant Hill Republican, taped a segment with faux Democratic presidential candidate and anti-abortion extremist Randall Terry this spring that spelled out her intentions toward the state political party and GOP lawmakers who did not live up to her level of conservatism.

The troubled--but still sold out--National Tea Party Convention got more bad news after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the for-profit nature of the event

Were Eisenhower alive, he’d no doubt be appalled at how thoroughly five-decades worth of policymakers have ignored his famous warning regarding the rise of the

This is deep in the weeds of a political dynamic I can hardly say I fully understand, but how much sense does it make for the exiled son of the shah to give a

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D), who won re-election earlier this month, announced yesterday that he hopes to use his next four years in office to pass a

Here’s a fairly disturbing trend. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows a significant jump in the number of Americans who doubt the seriousness of the global

President Obama is speaking in Madison, Wisconsin, this evening in an attempt to reenergize young voters -- a group which voted for him over Sen. John McCain

The New York Times reports that the draft U.S.-Iraq deal has U.S. troops pulling out of Iraqi "cities and villages" by June 2009 and combat forces

Offices, stores and industrial buildings are all facing a perfect storm of increasing vacancies and a lack of capital with which to refinance their debt.

Well, somebody’s making the best of the foreclosure crisis: Skateboarders are having a field day practicing in the empty swimming pools of foreclosed homes, the