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One man’s short take after watching the Inauguration through the trees at the southern edge of the WWII Memorial: There were few surprises through the

Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his nomination hearing to become the next commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa) this morning told a town hall audience he will not support a bill that gives health coverage to illegal immigrants. Will the

U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron) used a nationally-televised debate Saturday evening to praise a budget plan from U.S

Via Zachary Roth at TPMmuckraker, The Huffington Post reports that retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, called for

<p>Attention Republican candidates: sanctuary cities are popping up right on the borders of the nation’s capital!</p> <p> Former

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UPDATE: The survey is here. Kathie Durbin reports on the 2009 Future of American Health Survey sent out by the Republican National Committee. It’s this

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So reports Mike Allen. I’m not really sure how many minds this will actually change. Will’s never been much of a hawk, though he does represent something of a

Avid observers of the circus surrounding Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court may be interested to know that her answers to the Senate

According to the AP, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy commander and military leader, was captured in Pakistan ten days ago, which would be on or

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) has spent several months trying to draw attention to the issue of whether the census will be fair -- that is, whether it will

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his Super PAC are continuing a media blitz at Des Moines’ top network TV stations, while other candidates and issue groups have gone off the airwaves. Perry has spent $44,693 at KCCI, the local CBS affiliate, for ads running from Nov

The American Federation for Children’s insistence that it is a bipartisan education group took a hit today when it was revealed to be one of three school

The news that Democrats in the House and Senate will likely marry their health reform bills in closed-door sessions -- not in a formal conference committee --

Three days and four hearings on the ground views of Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy have just ended. And there are still a number of questions that have gone

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) wanted to know why Gen. Stanley McChrystal was giving speeches in London -- a speech seen as detrimental and even divisive -- and 60

Ben Wetmore, the 28-year-old conservative activist whom James O’Keefe called a mentor, has stayed out of the headlines since it was revealed that he housed

BOSTON -- A surprising discovery at yesterday’s People’s Rally in Worcester was just how many people had traveled into the state to assist, in whatever way,