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RESTON, Va. -- Gathering outside of the South Lakes High School in this well-heeled exurb of Washington, more than a hundred supporters and opponents of health care reform--or health insurance reform, as it was rebranded in blue-and-white signs passed out by Organizing for America--carried a sense of valedictory.

National Association of Evangelicals is in the market for a new top lobbyist, according to The Christian Post. The job description includes a very unusual

The most interesting angle on President-elect Barack Obama’s bread-breaking with conservatives last night was the intrigue on Rush Limbaugh’s

On the same day that the Labor Department reported 637,000 new jobless claims in the first week of May -- up 32,000 from the week before -- a group of Senate

Back in June, a small group of birthers arrived in Washington and began handing out grand jury presentments to confused staff at congressional offices and

Just in from the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.): the upper chamber will hold a procedural vote next Tuesday afternoon to proceed to

Stephen Walt blogged yesterday to put some stress on the idea that the goal in Afghanistan justifying the war should be to eradicate an even larger safe haven

Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) has rapidly signed up 99 co-sponsors for his Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009, which I wrote about last week. All but one

Fed governors and market gurus have been warning about the threat of inflation to the United States economy -- but there remains no sign of prices rising at

Sen. Barack Obama has only one event today, a rally in Dunedin, Florida, and the rest of his schedule is cleared for debate prep. His campaign, however, is not

BOSTON -- At his morning press conference, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) seemed more miffed than flattered by a question about whether he had

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has gotten a number of A- and B-list conservative bloggers to co-sign an open letter to the National Republican Senatorial

Vice presidents don’t matter? Think again. More than 30 percent have gone on to hold the higher office.

At a press availability earlier today, I asked Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) about the arrest of anti-ACORN muckraker James O’Keefe and what it meant for

This is getting disgusting. Last year, when General David Petraeus trudged to Capitol Hill to report on the surge’s fortunes, the White House scheduled it on an

A bill in Pennsylvania that would empower the governor to appoint two members to a management board that would have the authority to influence collective

Why is former Vice President Dick Cheney -- who’s planning to speak at the American Enterprise Institute right after President Obama’s national security speech

The Chronicle of Higher Education raises a question worth examining, as the credit stays tighter than usual and the economy remains sluggish: Is higher

Indiana’s Democratic senator announces that he won’t seek re-election despite raising $13 million for the contest and leaving his party four days to find a

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduces his bill to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today. As I write, he’s giving a presser that (alas) I was unable to attend.