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Wes Pruden of The Washington Times, a regular weekly contestant for the dual prizes of most gleefully offensive conservative column and most likely to be

Here’s the full text of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement of President Obama’s selection for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: The Norwegian Nobel

The 10-member commission appointed by Congress to investigate the causes of the nation’s financial meltdown holds its first meeting this morning. But with

Prosecutors today unexpectedly canceled the first court hearing scheduled for the underpants bomber -- the Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a

For a domestic audience, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is arguably awkward. Concern-troll Mickey Kaus is already editorializing that he should turn it

Sen. Barack Obama’s emphatic denunciation of his former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., for a series of comments the reverend made during a sort of media

Until his pastor’s most incendiary sound bites re-circulated on the web, Sen. Barack Obama had managed to be the “post-racial,” “post-partisan”

Organized labor and collective bargaining rights may be under attack by conservative lawmakers in Michigan, Wisconsin and many other states, but Mary Kay Henry, the president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), sees opportunity in the unprecedented troubles. Henry — who was the first woman selected to lead the 2.2 million member union — spoke with Michigan Messenger Saturday at the Michigan Summit following her keynote speech at the event, during which she focused on the need to build larger coalitions between labor and other progressive organizations.

The Senate just confirmed Bill Lynn as the next deputy secretary of defense on a 93-4 vote. Earlier today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called on the former

The Senate is expected to take up energy and climate legislation this spring. These ten people will determine its fate.

The Obama administration unveiled the details of its new housing rescue plan today, and Bloomberg has some of the specifics: The initiative, first announced on

The United States Forest Service (USFS) Tuesday gave the green light to a 1,700-acre expansion of the West Elk coal mine 10 miles east of Paonia on Colorado’s Western Slope. West Elk owner Arch Coal , based in St. Louis, Mo., praised the decision for its job-saving potential

Asked why Democrats should support him rather than Meek, Gov. Charlie Crist replied, I can win.

Last week, Pakistani President Asif Al Zardari chatted up Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations. By all accounts he didn’t even get her

In November of 1999, when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation deregulating the finance industry, The New York Times described part of the

Republicans (see here) are pushing a CNN poll that has opposition to health care reform legislation running to 59 percent. Two things I noticed, however, that

For the first time in 12 years, there is a new leader at the helm of Michigan’s AFL-CIO union as outgoing President Mark Gaffney is replaced by Karla Swift.

The administration will have to reconcile its new goals with the escalated war and unilateral right to assassinate terrorists around the world that it has also pursued.

I’m a little tired of The Undecideds, The Swing Voters and all those People In The Middle -- but they do decide elections after the rest of us have made our

You know an op-ed’s going to be good when it starts out like this: FOR seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the