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Yet another high-profile Republican has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama -- and this time, it’s one of Sen. John McCain’s own advisers. Charles Fried, a

Political groups like Club for Growth and Commonsense Ten have won advisory opinions from the FEC allowing them to set up independent expenditure groups that

Emotions ran high in a New York state courtroom packed with supporters of the Sean Bell family this morning. Judge Arthur Cooperman delivered a not-guilty

The Senate Finance Committee reconvenes this morning to consider ever-more attachments to its $900 billion plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

As The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin reported last week, GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth might be down in the polls, and he might have just a fifth of the

As Sen. Barack Obama has learned in recent days, it’s easy to slip up when taking on economic issues in a political campaign. From Walter F. Mondale

The Village Voice’s correspondent-on-the-right, Roy Edroso, does another round-up of conservatives and libertarians who want to go Galt as President Obama

Jeff Wexler of Boca Raton said that on Sunday, a 36-year old Major, the son of two of his constituents, died in the Green Zone as the result of a mortar attack.

Now, the Democrats’ big dog: Jim Webb, the streetfighting Marine from Virginia. He started out by casually remarking that his son was in Anbar in 2006 for the

The Christian Science Monitor carries an interview with an anonymous and recently retired senior Pakistani intelligence official, who tells us to expect more

Harry Shearer plans to buy up all the comedic talent in the world, one jokester at a time.

For all the talk about Obama not governing as a progressive, take a look at his first not-even-48 hours in office. He’s suspended the Guantanamo Bay military

My understanding is that around 2:00 or 2:30 p.m. today, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) are going to introduce their bill providing aid

Saddam Hussein henchman Tariq Aziz has been convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity. His sentence is ... fifteen years in prison. Daphne, perhaps

<p>We’re still in Beta mode here at The Washington Independent -- there are a lot of kinks in our system yet to be ironed out. But it seemed time to post

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia expires on Saturday. U.S. and Russian negotiators have been working on a successor treaty to

President Obama’s speech changed a debate over entitlement programs to streamlining an inefficient health care system at the route of the problem.