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Here’s Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) explaining to Fox News today why he’s threatening to filibuster the Democrats’ health reform bill over the inclusion of a

There’s mostly gallows humor to be had in the campaign of Kesha Rogers, a member of the amazingly resilient Lyndon LaRouche cult who snuck past two mainstream

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) will face Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) in his reelection bid for U.S. Senate. Both Vitter and Melancon easily won their primaries

Most immigration legislation is expected to stall next legislative session, as a heavily pro-enforcement House attempts to get bills past a president and Senate

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Bad news for Orly Taitz, the indefatigable birther attorney. On September 17, she filed a motion of consideration on behalf of her client Capt. Connie Rhodes,

Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin, is still on track to publish Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-S.C.) book Within Our Means. The New York Observer checked in with

To hear Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder (R) tell it, he and his colleagues in the Ohio General Assembly are nearly in the poor house. “I know a lot of

The author of Liberal Fascism falls hook, line and sinker for Bill Ayers’ joke about serving as Barack Obama’s ghostwriter. I am not sure what to make of the

With all the necessary caveats about polling in Afghanistan, this new BBC poll finds a surprisingly robust acceptance among Afghans for the U.S. troop

Of the nine dismissals in the U.S. attorney scandal, the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Atty. David Iglesias was probably the most blatantly partisan. A

I reported earlier this week that Republicans were holding up a vote to confirm Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin because, basically, of arguments over

A new report from the Treasury Department -- the last of its kind -- shows that despite all the regulation-avoiding PR campaigns, new loans at the nine largest

The McCain campaign quickly backtracked from its Tuesday announcement that the Republican presidential nominee invented the BlackBerry, explaining that the

So why did Feith believe the Taliban -- not Al Qaeda -- was entitled to Geneva Conventions protections but not P.O.W. privileges? This comes across as

On Tuesday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rolled out the House GOP’s budget blueprint for 2012. Meanwhile, the White House and the GOP-controlled House

Last week’s Government Accountability Office report on the trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexico has inspired quite a backlash from gun enthusiasts who contend

If there were any lingering doubts that Sen. John McCain has completely -- and enthusiastically -- abandoned his frequent pledge to run an honorable campaign,

In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn’t regret the substance of any

U.S. population growth is petering out, with future growth to come mostly through immigration from developing countries, according to a report released today by

The DNC is gleefully circulating an AP article that flags another obvious, but important, shortcoming of Sen. John McCain’s domestic platform when viewed under

From The Minnesota Independent: Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, told