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In the final presidential debate in 1980, Ronald Reagan ensured his election by proving that he was a man the American people could feel safe with, a man whose actions wouldn’t send the world into a mass panic. Obama must do the same tonight against McCain if he wants to win the White House.

A bill to continue a defunct school voucher program in Washington, D.C., passed the U.S. House on Wednesday afternoon by a largely party-line vote

The conservative blogger at JustOneMinute, who’s surprised some people on the right by asking silly questions about President Obama’s citizenship, accuses me of

Now that the House and Senate armed services committees have heard from Amb. Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, there are two more hearings to go: the

The anticipated climate legislation from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will include an upper and lower limit on the price of carbon, a significant change from

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has answered the question on the minds of all the people who have lost their unemployment benefits in recent weeks: Senate

As I observed yesterday, one of the ways that the Republicans are going to try to box President Obama in on escalating in Afghanistan is to call for Gen.

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The unemployment extension is in the White House, and President Obama plans to sign it into law in approximately 15 minutes. At that point, states can

Two weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, the Colorado legislature enjoyed a historic moment swearing in two African-American men

The judiciary committee hearing seemed a little backward -- with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy calling for a truth commission and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter pushing for a full-fledged prosecution.

Long before the AIG bonus scandal erupted this month, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) was at the forefront of (failed) congressional efforts to install stricter

As campaign-finance filings come out from 2012 Republican presidential candidates, the records show women are not big-money donors for this year’s crop of

Continuing the long twilight struggle to document President Obama’s chameleon-like ability to transmogrify into different cultures and religions simply by

So, according to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the strategic goal of the Helmand river valley campaign is to disrupt and deny opium revenue to the insurgency.

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign has filed a class-action lawsuit against state Republicans alleging that the party is hoping to prevent voters who are in the midst

The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) temporarily laid off state workers at midnight after the state legislature failed to pass a

The National Rifle Association today informed Senate lawmakers that the group has very serious concerns with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ruling