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As Obama’s approval rating has slipped beneath the 50 percent mark and stubbornly refused to climb back up, many candidates up for reelection in tight races or

Ahead of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resource request for the Afghanistan war, which should be finalized today-ish, Defense Secretary Gates is already settling on

Back in 2006, the Pension Protection Act instituted a new requirement: that all non-profits need to file a 990-N annual return with the Internal Revenue Service

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, sets the tone on the stimulus vote: Under the guise of stimulus, House Democrats have

Sharron Angle, the Nevada GOP’s candidate for Senate, is arguing that the government should cut unemployment benefits to get the jobless back to work. Angle has

Spencer sends over the story that General Motors has tried to keep quiet. Following Sunday’s Super Bowl, the automaker -- keeping with a marketing tradition

This morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that President Obama will give a speech on financial regulatory reform from New York City on

Following a classified briefing on the attempted car-bombing of Times Square for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the panel’s leadership said there

If you wanted to underscore the continuity in strategy that exists for Afghanistan and Pakistan now that President Obama has fired Gen. Stanley McChrystal,

Ken Timmerman of NewsMax asks the panel what Al Qaeda would look like if the surge in Iraq never happened and Al Qaeda was allowed to take over Iraq -- which

The Obama budget outline balances a line that was widely applauded by Republicans from the president’s Wednesday night speech to Congress—“we will

The much-hyped meeting between RNC Chairman Michael Steele and Tea Party activists ended up lasting four hours, with the activists who participated alternating

A new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University indicates that despite the abundance in the media of birtherism and other anti-Obama sentiment, three out of four

Variety reports (with a nice visual joke) that the former governor of Alaska had sold her reality series (reported, thus far, as about the state more than her

At 7 p.m. Monday, Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia. Even for those who support the death penalty, that’s cause for concern. Davis

In the Justice Department’s zeal to be tough on terrorism, prosecutors are using questionable tactics that could land innocent people – mainly Muslims – behind bars for a very long time.

Good catch by Matthew Yglesias: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), the key Republican players in the Senate’s health care tussle, are

Back in October I spoke to congressional candidate Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel from Florida who stood to become one of the GOP’s highest-profile

President Obama’s new strategy for Afghanistan, which Spencer has been reporting on in detail, is being greeted with cautious optimism from lawyers representing

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As Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (D) made headlines Thursday for floating the possibility of a Democratic primary do-over, Michigan’s Democrats are approaching the