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NASHVILLE -- The National Tea Party Convention’s early reluctance to give credentials to reporters -- a decision that came after some negative commentary on the

McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef has a big story: as a dividend for leaving Iraq, the Marines will spend twice as much time at home as deployed in a combat zone,

There’s mostly gallows humor to be had in the campaign of Kesha Rogers, a member of the amazingly resilient Lyndon LaRouche cult who snuck past two mainstream

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said not to read too much into it, but the August document listing steps for communities to opt out of the

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) will face Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) in his reelection bid for U.S. Senate. Both Vitter and Melancon easily won their primaries

The state’s all-Republican Executive Council, which approves state contracts as a check on legislative and gubernatorial power, voted 3 to 2 against Planned Parenthood.

Politico is reporting today that U.S Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) raised about $3 million in the first three months of 2011, and also has about $1.7 million in his

The mysteriously omnipresent daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) picks her latest fight with a conservative pundit and produces my favorite quote of the

Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that income, disposable personal income and spending improved a bit in July, after all three declined slightly

The Conservative Political Action Conference being held in Orlando this month is set to feature a session that includes strategies to end “unconstitutional ObamaCare.” Included in the panel will be Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, and former Attorney General Bill McCollum. According to a recent press release , the first panel scheduled for CPAC FL is entitled the “Health Care Freedom & Constitutionalism: Reining in the Rogue Federal Government” panel: will feature a conversation on the unconstitutional overreaching of the Obama Administration and Congress when it comes to the right to make individual health care decisions, and conservatives’ courageous efforts to protect personal liberties.

On Friday, I flagged an ABC story reporting that Gen. David Petraeus had requested permission to talk with the Syrian government as part of his new job as head

Republican governors-elect in Wisconsin and Ohio who have publicly indicated their opposition to rail projects in their states have received letters from U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has announced he will launch a 2012 presidential exploratory committee, which allows him to begin raising money in the

Conservatives see victory in the stalled nomination of a normally uncontroversial post.

Most immigration legislation is expected to stall next legislative session, as a heavily pro-enforcement House attempts to get bills past a president and Senate

Former Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin, who headed the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush after the

Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin, is still on track to publish Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-S.C.) book Within Our Means. The New York Observer checked in with

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Bad news for Orly Taitz, the indefatigable birther attorney. On September 17, she filed a motion of consideration on behalf of her client Capt. Connie Rhodes,

The author of Liberal Fascism falls hook, line and sinker for Bill Ayers’ joke about serving as Barack Obama’s ghostwriter. I am not sure what to make of the

To hear Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder (R) tell it, he and his colleagues in the Ohio General Assembly are nearly in the poor house. “I know a lot of