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More than one week after initial reporting by the LGBT-news blog Good As You, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) finally addressed its usage of

I’ve spotlighted retired Lt. Col. Allen West as one of the GOP’s most credible African-American candidates for Congress this year--he lost a 2008 bid in his

This sort of reactionary tripe was perhaps inevitable: A small group of German officers opposed the loyalty oath to Hitler despite great political pressure.

FOX News just broke the story (with few details) that eight-term Indiana Rep. Mark Souder (R) will announce his resignation today after it came to light that

That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the

Less than two weeks after Goldman Sachs posted record quarterly profits, some congressional lawmakers are wondering if the Wall Street giant isn’t taking

Scaled-back health reform is a fantasy. Krugman’s losing patience with the House approach to health care. But most Americans want Congress to put the

Via David Dayen, Tom Braithwaite at the Financial Times reports a blockbuster for proponents of strong bank reform: Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) provision to

On Tuesday, we broke the story of an undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel memo from 2007 about what interrogation techniques were and weren’t legal for the CIA

The tea party movement, a phenomenon that many deem responsible for installing Florida’s all-Republican cabinet and turning over control of the House of Representatives to the GOP, continues to demonstrate its influence throughout the state and the country.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater -- sorry, Xe Services, the new name for the company -- to say that Blackwater shell company Paravant

A robocall points out -- 10 times -- that Democratic candidate Tony Sessoms is homosexual. Jim Manchin refuses to pledge support for Barack Obama or Harry

Even with the Obama Justice Department on the side of John Yoo, the former Bush administration deputy assistant attorney general at the Office of Legal Counsel,

In a speech given at the SW Graduate School of Banking yesterday evening, Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, blasted the

That’s the argument that the Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian makes in his latest post at the National Review. Obviously the Obamacare

During President Obama’s Cairo trip earlier this month, the press corps finally uncovered the truth about President Obama: by saying shukran -- the Arabic

It seems I’m not the only one who finds it odd that the State Dept.’s blog DipNote isn’t promoting the Zawahiri house negro tape to discredit Al Qaeda. Matt

Jim Geraghty alerts us to Jim Cramer’s new promotion for his CNBC show, Mad Money — Jim will show you how to Obama-proof your portfolio! I’m not sure how

To call this unexpected is really quite an understatement. From the Associated Press: President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation

President Obama: They’re actually going to run on a platform of repeal in November. Well, I say go for it.” Dems regain political momentum with passage