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Glenn Beck, one-time shock jock now wildly emotive and popular TV political conspiracy theorist, is airing his last regular show on the Fox network tonight. He plans to stride from the Fox studio after his nightly show to the home of his new “GBTV” outlet to do a post-Fox interview– not with any media talking head but with regular people who will participate in a live Q&A. To hear GB talk about his new venture, it’s going to be typically low key and free of grandiose aspirations

In an effort to cut $58 billion from the federal budget for the second half of Fiscal Year 2011, House Republicans released a budget proposal late last week, one provision of which would mean steep cuts for food safety programs at both the FDA and USDA. Critics argue the reductions could cause a major hold-up on recently enacted food safety laws. # According to the Republican plan, 14 percent, or $3.2 billion, would be chopped from the budgets of the USDA and FDA.

On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission made a bombshell announcement: It is charging Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs with civil fraud for failing to

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I’m hearing -- though the players have not yet responded to my questions -- that there’s some serious friction between one of the main organizations of the Tea

Citing insufficient funding for roadways, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax, based on the number of miles a

The U.S. lost 23,000 more private-sector jobs in March. And Reason argues that public-sector jobs are killing the economy. GOP donors have stopped

The abortion debate in the Senate is looking more and more like that in the House every day. Last week, it was liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

I’m at the National Press Club, where the six candidates for RNC chairman are facing off. (Yes, even Chip the Magic Gaffer.) The forum was organized by Grover

President Obama’s planned speech on immigration reform tomorrow has been lauded as indication of a renewed commitment to immigration reform, as have his

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and his wife, Mary, thanked supporters on their campaign distribution list Monday, saying that he will remain committed to changing the nation and electing a Republican in 2012.

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GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Numbers USA — an organization that supports “Attrition Through Enforcement” immigration policy and wants “lower immigration levels” — blames Rick Perry’s results in the Florida straw poll on his weak stance on immigration enforcement. Numbers USA, which supports mandatory E-Verfiy, writes : Not by design, Texas Gov

On the day Eric Massa resigned from the House, he refunded $112,000 in campaign donations, according to the Federal Election Commission. More than half of those

The U.S. government tried to get Binyam Mohamed -- the British resident who was held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for four years and allegedly

From the LetsTalkLiberty Twitter account that’s following Carl Swensson’s Birthers as they try to deliver citizen indictments of the president of the United

Last week, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael Maples, acknowledged a simple truth about the presence of the Taliban senior leadership