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With midterms fast approaching, most eyes are trained towards Congress and the question of which party will grab a majority of seats. But, as the New York Times

The following quote was emailed to me by Matthew Alexander, the pseudonym of a military interrogator and vocal torture opponent who helped track down Abu Musab

Now that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is safely ensconced in his job for five and a half years, more videos from his earlier, funnier career are starting to leak

I just spoke with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who’s now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and asked him whether the party should

Are you good looking enough to be in MTV’s audience for the Obama town hall? An anti-abortion group runs ads against the wrong Salazar brother. Don’t

One very very large reason for the decline in violence in Baghdad in the latter half of 2007 was radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s decision to have his

We all had a good laugh yesterday when State Department spokesman Robert Wood refused to say which countries fell under the purview of Dennis Ross, the Special

This is a Slate piece about Liz Cheney -- daughter of Dick and a former State Department official -- and what her senior undergraduate thesis on executive power

DAYTON, Ohio -- After finishing an education address that was supposed to drive his campaign message today, Sen. Barack Obama tacked a press conference onto

It’s so dry it borders on passive-aggressive. Immediately following the attempted attack, Director Blair initiated reviews to identify -wide shortcomings and

Conservative data hound Matthew Vadum shows how several left-leaning groups, such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, were bilked by the just-convicted

After being rebuffed last month, chief executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler try again to persuade lawmakers that a government bailout is necessary.

The insurance industry over the weekend released a controversial report indicating that Americans’ insurance premiums would shoot up by thousands of dollars if

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has given Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) an ultimatum: Stop trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year,

These musings from Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) don’t seem to add much to the status of the Minnesota Senate race. I’m prepared to sign as soon as they give

This should bolster the hopes of state lawmakers who want to pass Arizona-style immigration legislation: The Virgina Attorney General ruled police can check

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has pulled out of the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner June 10, party officials said Thursday, leading the party to cancel the entire fundraiser for this year. Trump was to be the keynote speaker.

Five years after Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) beat him in a Senate primary by only 17,000 votes, and months after he ruled out a rematch, Club for Growth

Frank Deffer, assistant inspector general for the department of Homeland Security, told Congress yesterday that the federal government is not prepared to handle