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A new national poll contends that a vast majority of likely American voters support a plan by U.S. Rep.

Via Glenn Thrush at Politico, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is lashing out at recent reports revealing a bailout meeting she facilitated between Treasury

Tom Murse reports on a town hall meeting held by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) where the congressman chastised his own side. One thing I think is being misrepresented

In the wake of yesterday’s news that long-time conservative columnist Robert Novak is retiring pending treatment for brain cancer, most reports today are

Low inflation is good news, unless that low inflation reflects price deflation in every sector other than food and fuel. Then, it’s not so great.

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- The final Siena poll (pdf) of the NY-23 special election is out, and while it finds Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman leading

It seems all those deficit hawks have the country spooked. A new Gallup poll says that terrorism and the national debt now rank evenly -- above health care

The Obama campaign just rolled out a new YouTube video with Natalie Portman rallying young Americans. But she’s not asking them to vote for Obama. Instead,

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Though Leon Panetta is inexperienced, his political ties to President-elect Barack Obama could keep the agency relevant.

Down in Florida, the St. Petersburg Times has launched yet another rocket at billionaire and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene: At a project called

This article has been updated to clarify the relationship between Life Always and Heroic Media. Not shying away from controversy, anti-abortion rights media

GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller has officially filed suit in federal court against the Alaska Division of Elections’ announced rules for counting write-in votes

Sonia Sotomayor’s public characterization neglects her quintessential American story of growing up in public housing and then going on to graduate at the top of her class at Princeton and serve as an editor of the law review at Yale.

If Republicans are too harsh on their members (like Delaware’s Rep. Mike Castle) for occasionally voting out of step with their party, are Democrats too

Here’s a tea leaf, and, I’m afraid, a 2006-vintage joke. As an indication of President Obama’s continuing displeasure with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Bloomberg’s Ryan Donmoyer digs deeper into the question of whether the administration’s plan to scale back deductability of charity donations by wealthy

More bad poll numbers are greeting Democrats as they recover from Labor Day barbecues and stump speeches, raising the question of how Democratic incumbents will

The Republican alternative budget, introduced this morning by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), is here. It has cost analyses and projections, unlike the widely panned

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced it is awarding $28.8 million to 67 community health center programs across the country

President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) The National Organization for Women (NOW) , the largest organization of feminist activists in the U.S., has joined reproductive rights advocates in asking President Obama to not cave in to pressure from the Catholic leaders asking that he strike a recent decision that increases access to birth control for women. A couple months ago, a federal health agency announced it would require health insurance companies to cover contraception as preventive care — which would remove co-payments.