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At a Monday rally for Scott Brown in North Andover, Mass., I met Bill Hudak, a first-time candidate for Congress running against Rep. John Tierney

The political moment is right for ending off-shore tax evasion tactics, but obstacles stand in the way.

Former speaker of the House Republican Newt Gingrich has set up a new Spanish-language website . # According to The Hill : # Newt Gingrich’s simultaneous courtship of the base of the Republican Party and Latino voters could pose major problems for his likely bid for the White House. # Gingrich, who is soon expected to announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, frequently stresses the need for the GOP to reach out to Latinos

From the Twitter feed of Sen. David Vitter. I’m trying to get a look at the amendment itself.

Texas A&M University faculty are unhappy with a recent report on faculty productivity written by Rick O’Donnell, a former special adviser to the

Xcel Energy’s announcement this week that it’s pulling the plug on a controversial and hotly contested transmission line project in the San Luis Valley is being cheered by local environmentalists but viewed with skepticism by Xcel’s partner in the project, Tri-State Generation and Transmission. The San Luis Valley is home to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Great Sand Dunes National Park (Park Service photo)

With just four days remaining until Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin, a new poll showed a markedly low percentage of

Vice President Joe Biden is coming under serious fire from the conservative blogosphere for “hiding out” in Aspen over the weekend ahead of President Barack Obama’s key speech justifying ongoing U.S. airstrikes in Libya.

Add another cut to the already long list of health care services that Gov. Rick Scott vetoed last week: $1.8 million dollars in vaccinations for postpartum women on Medicaid

For those of you already growing weary of midterm election coverage, here’s something completely different: Albania Deleon, an Environmental Protection

Via Andrew Sullivan, the Anti-Defamation League has released a statement backing Sarah Palin and other conservative figures who have come out against the

Christine Fair of RAND runs through some of the reasons why militancy has grown in Pakistan despite something like $10 billion in mostly military aid coming

It’s been partly necessitated by the fact that the lawmakers themselves delayed the effective date of their bill that would do the same thing. That is, both

Today, more stories are adding detail to the debate over whether Elizabeth Warren should become the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping

Interesting nugget from Playbook this morning on Warren Buffett, legendary investor and longtime supporter of higher taxes for the very wealthy: Buffett, a

From The Los Angeles Times: The Commerce Department said today that the nation’s gross domestic product, or total goods and services produced, contracted in

A Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday shows that 66 percent of likely U.S. voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction; 27 percent are

Liberals might be grumbling about the concessions needed to pass health care reform this year, but President Obama has no regrets. In an interview with The

A recent bill filed in both houses of the Tennessee legislature mirrors similar bills that have been debated in Texas and Oklahoma in recent months.