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The reaction from Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to the missile defense announcement is too detached from reality to be taken seriously: “This deeply

Hundreds of people rallied at the state Capitol on Saturday in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Capitol officials say an estimated 500 people rallied there in blustery winds

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on July 13, 2009. The explosive inspectors general

Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kans.), fresh off the Great White Hope controversy of last week, can be seen in this video talking down a woman named Elizabeth Smith

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), pushing the Republican bill that would prevent the closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Releasing

Now that it looks like Congress will create a commission to investigate the causes of the financial crisis after all, the big question is who will be chosen for

The Family Research Council is taking aim at the guy they hope will be the next Van Jones in their latest action alert. It’s apparently Kevin Jennings, who

The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has rejected a law signed by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) that prohibits

A few weeks ago, Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, came together in rare bipartisan fashion

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today presented his long-awaited proposal to

President Barack Obama just gave a brief address after his first meeting with his bipartisan commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the

- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), once a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, shot down hopes from advocates that he’d again push for the cause.

In 2003, then Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division that had participated in the invasion of Iraq, had a running joke with an

Following former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s endorsement of Mitt Romney for president, the Romney campaign has said it’s willing to contribute fundraising muscle to pay down Pawlenty’s campaign debt.

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, appearing on Bryan Fischer’s radio program on Wednesday to talk up his new book, said that if he’s elected president, he’ll reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers. Fischer works for the American Family Association, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center named a hate group in November for spreading falsehoods about Muslim and LGBT Americans

The House might create a new border security bill to address jurisdictional issues over the $600 million border security bill passed by the Senate last week,

That’s what I asked Joshua Dratel, Chair of the John Adams Project Advisory Committee and a prominent defense lawyer who has represented numerous terror

The endlessly repeated remark that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in speeches and law review articles that she would hope that a wise Latina woman,