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Josh Kraushaar finds the allies of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, airing a phony ad for Republican candidate Dede

His son Rand’s campaign for Senate in Kentucky is going better than anyone could have expected -- every Kentuckian I met at the National Tea Party Convention

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick (Pic by MilitaryHealth, via Flickr) Donald Berwick, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters yesterday that the agency has the funds necessary to move forward with the Obama administration’s plans to create state health care insurance exchanges throughout the country. However, Florida remains one of five states that has not made any effort to take part in the reform

The former GOP Speaker of the House tweets: Just had remarkable interview with chris wallace on foxnews sunday. I asserted releasing terrorist trainees into

As it if weren’t enough that Greece and Lehman Brothers were caught shifting their debts off the books with the help of a variety of irregular accounting

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 1.4 million Floridians relied on food stamps in 2010, and 76.2 percent of those recipients did not have an earned income.

Barry Ritholtz posts an anonymous critique of Mark Zandi, one of the most frequently cited economists in Washington. The nameless investment banking analyst

Just released from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.): Bart Stupak is a public servant of great integrity and genuine conscience. I deeply regret his decision from a

Potential Republican 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman appeared in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “Good Morning America” on

Well, not quite anymore. A new Hays Research poll from Alaska has Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) popularity falling precipitously from the mid-80s to only 54 percent,

As the Obama administration assesses that Iran is near nuclear capability , Iran has released a series of proposals for negotiations on the nuclear question.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - Supporters are slowly trickling into Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s election night party at the Hotel Saranac, into a small

From The Associated Press: Spain’s top investigative magistrate has opened an investigation into the Bush administration over alleged torture of terror

Some quick fun with the transitive property. Item one: Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how is handling her job as Speaker of the

Really, media? Is it really newsworthy that President Obama said thank you in Arabic to an Arabic-speaking leader and an Arabic-speaking press? Could it be that

A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote. On the dispensary’s website, owner Skekina Pena writes : Protect Your Access! Vote 2011: All dispensaries are doing a voter registration drive

Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak spoke at a forum last month organized by the Center for a New American Security. He wanted sustained American support

The Blaze, the conservative news and opinion website founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck, reports on a claim that the Obama administration increased the