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Unsatisfied with how Maryland’s religious community campaigned against same-sex-marriage legislation that died in the state House of Delegates in 2011, Del.

Political communicators will seize any tool to reach voters. While email and blogs do heavy lifting on the campaign trail, both parties are experimenting

Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, plays the liberal to the former congressman’s conservative. That makes her endorsement of

Tomorrow, the House Financial Services Committee, headed by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), will hear testimony regarding the Valukas Report -- a lawyer’s

I wrote today about the problems inherent with ad-hoc relationships between civilians and military officers during wartime, but I confess I didn’t think about

While it’s no surprise that President Clinton’s former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger and other traditionally Democratic high-caliber lawyers and scholars

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry convened this morning to consider Sen. Patrick Leahy’s

As House lawmakers continue to debate the Democrats’ climate change bill this week, we’re certain to hear some curious arguments coming from Congress’ global

This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of

Earlier this week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute posted a set of documents (PDF) it obtained via the Freedom of Information Act that it’s touting as

Via Nick Sabloff, this is the sort of media moment that would slow down the schedule of an ordinary pundit. But Meghan McCain’s, err, expertise, has never

John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism, intelligence and homeland security adviser, is probably the foremost advocate of the proposition that

Inside the U.S. Capitol (Pic by ThatMakesThree, via Flickr) A diverse group of organizations have rejected the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2011, recently passed by the U.S.

In my story on the surprisingly fractious GOP primary for the right to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (R-Calif.), I mentioned that backers of Carly Fiorina had

President-elect Obama has said that energy will be a top priority for his administration in its first 100 days -- hinting that it will come second only to the

Don’t know who Ray Mabus is? I don’t blame you. He’s a former Mississippi governor whom President Obama nominated last week to become secretary of the Navy. If

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open the door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities.

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National