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The Economic Policy Institute has posted a new study of the average duration of unemployment by state. The report shows that workers wait longest for jobs in

At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, I asked Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the leader of the Republican Study Committee, whether he sided with Rep. Patrick

More from Laura Rozen. She talked to Chas Freeman and he says that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had nothing to do with his departure as National

Ohio voters in 2009 approved by an overwhelming margin a ballot measure that allowed the state to borrow and spend $200 million on bonuses to Buckeye State

<p>Stanley Kutler makes an important <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/commentary-huckabee">argument</a> about Mike

One of the major problems with Secure Communities, an information-sharing program between federal and local law enforcement to catch illegal immigrants, is that

Geoffrey Millard, a soldier with the New York National Guard, was a general’s assistant in Iraq. He related a story he attended a briefing his boss about: a

More on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) offer to trade the White House a Guantanamo Bay closure for a military commission for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. On ’Face

The economic downturn has meant cutting back one prestige product and trimming some minor costs and low-level staff. Several long-time scholars have left for more complicated reasons.

Building on yesterday’s question of how precisely Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy is synchronized, take a look at Brandon Friedman’s post at

School Choice Wisconsin fired back against charges the Milwaukee school voucher program discriminates against students with disabilities as alleged in a federal

Two weeks after sending the Special Olympics a video message about her son Trig, who was born with Down Syndrome, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) has attacked

I wrote before the recess that it appeared likely that the DISCLOSE Act wasn’t dead yet, but now it’s official: Senate Dems plan to bring it up for another vote

Catholics across the country are criticizing a Maine diocese for having solicited monetary contributions for the Maine ballot fight, punished organizations that opposed its stance on gay marriage, and for having politicized churchgoers’ charitable giving.

The Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund and Albuquerque law firm Freedman Boyd filed suit Wednesday against the Secretary of the Taxation and Revenue Department in state District Court in Santa Fe arguing that the license verification program lacks statutory authority. Gov. Susana Martinez directed TRD by executive order to send out letters to 10,000 of the estimated 85,000 foreign nationals with driver’s licenses asking them to come to Albuquerque to verify that they are still residents of New Mexico.