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President Obama, in an interview with NBC News, about the timing of his Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy decision: I think it is entirely possible that we

It continues with an op-ed in The Washington Post on Why I commuted Maurice Clemmons’s sentence. On this issue, the problem conservatives have with Huckabee,

High gas prices are spurring support for offshore drilling, which experts say won’t alleviate the pain at the pump.

The Washington Post has a great story today that raises questions about the rosy assumptions included in an Obama administration report on oil released into the

The American Cause, the Pat and Bay Buchanan-run coalition that employs Marcus Epstein, is holding a national conference in Virginia this weekend on the theme

That’s the question being asked by 43 House Democrats, who wrote a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week urging the

One concern that may animate the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force deciding that about 50 detainees must be held indefinitely without trial is that

After threatening 450 amendments and other delays, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee appear to be playing ball, and against all odds, it

SARANAC LAKE, NY - Just after midnight, the sound was cut on the TVs in the Hotel Saranac ballroom and a thinning crowd walked in front of a podium. Mike Long,

For environmentalists hoping that the new Democratic margins in Congress might lead to the return of a decades-old moratorium on offshore oil drilling -- you

St. Paul Cathedral.

The financial bailout bill failed in the House when no one -- not the president, congressional leader or vote counter -- had the influence to save it. What would LBJ have done?

It’s no mystery that some Democrats are hoping to extend emergency unemployment benefits even further into next year -- both to acknowledge a jobless rate

Stop worrying about a massive Treasury sell-off by China. They already did that, and you didn’t even notice.

The conservative web forum Lucianne.com (named after founder/Clinton scandal bit player Lucianne Goldberg, who launched it a decade ago after a split with

Let’s see what Lou Dobbs makes of this one: turns out the crackdown on border crossings by undocumented immigrants has actually led to an increase in the

Here’s another point I should have made in my piece earlier today: Just because President Obama’s Justice Department has been asserting a remarkably broad,

On Tuesday the Everglades Foundation and contractors involved in restoration efforts called on the Florida legislature to maintain funding for the programs, saying cuts would cost private sector jobs. # Funding for the efforts peaked at $200 million under Jeb Bush, and under Gov

Joe Biden thanks George Bush for his role in ending the Iraq war. A poll shows Rahm Emanuel leading other possible mayoral candidates in Chicago. The star

Activists grasp for political leverage most Republicans concede is out of reach.

The Wall Street Journal’s influential political diarist tackles the Massachusetts special election in a new column, running up against the same issue that every

Here’s the text of an ad that the Republican National Committee is running on health care, with Chairman Michael Steele doing the voiceover. The Democrats are

Wendy Norris of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent, caught up with former Vermont governor, presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee