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I’m already hearing speculative groans that the CIA planted this story with Walter Pincus at The Washington Post today about how a military commander in 2003

The New Yorker published a blockbuster story this weekend detailing the many failures of the White House and the Senate to pass climate change

On Friday, FRC’s annual conservative conference will give a platform to presidential contenders and high-ranking GOP leaders, a platform that will be shared by individuals with a penchant for rhetoric that stigmatizes minority communities in America

Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers called the state’s school system “abysmal this week, proposing a slew of remedies that curiously did not address

URBANDALE — GOP presidential candidate and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty defended his nice guy demeanor while pledging to repeal “Obamacare in its entirety” and have the U.S

The Republican National Committee invited reporters to listen via conference call to new Chairman Michael Steele’s pep talk to House Republicans at their

Markos Moulitsas leaks (on Twitter) the results of the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, which has Marco Rubio surging against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in

Alexander Bolton has an important story in the The Hill about conservative division -- polite so far -- over whether the party’s stalwart Senate minority should

A loss in Massachusetts has damaged the prospects for comprehensive health reform legislation and left Democrats wondering how to galvanize the electorate.

Give this to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.): He wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t a good fit in President Obama’s cabinet. Gregg, of course, withdrew his

Just in across the transom: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced a press conference with

Gov. Rick Snyder has endorsed former rival Pete Hoekstra for the GOP nomination for the U.S.

Predictably, it depends on whom you ask. The major corporate players in the spill were BP, which leased the well, Transocean, which operated the rig, and

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No surprise that President Obama’s top economic adviser Larry Summers was among those gathered at today’s White House meeting with credit card executives. But

Mike Madden reports that Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist last seen handing out beer and chicken wings at a press conference on Sonia Sotomayor,

The Washington Post has a great piece today on mining safety. According to the story: Federal regulators have increased their inspections at 89 coal mines

John McCain tells us he’s going to stand up to Vladimir Putin and chase Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell and fight until who-knows-when in Iraq and so

ORLANDO, Fla. -- With all the speculation about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s future on the national stage, remember: she’s got problems back at home. If Palin

For the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, designating land as wilderness is pretty much like breathing. And so when the committee unanimously

Defense Secretary Bob Gates walked into the Air Force’s War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama today and explained why he cut the F-22 fighter

I was on the phone during Bob Gates’ first presser since being reappointed as defense secretary by President-elect Obama, but my man Matt DeLong kept me covered