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In 1976, a little-known former governor of Georgia rode all the way to the presidency on the momentum generated by his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses.

An atheist state lawmaker tasked with delivering the opening prayer for this afternoon's session of the House of Representatives asked that people not bow their heads.

He insists he's not running for president, but Governor Scott Walker will be in Iowa Thursday at an event that's seen appearances by previous Republican presidential hopefuls.

Last week's party-line House vote to repeal the 201o health care law was arranged so the 70 freshman Republicans could go on record in support of a campaign promise.

Mitt Romney first politicized the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, only hours after the event, by claiming the president sympathized with terrorists.

The answer is: "Nowhere." And the obvious conclusion is that the present CTPC should disband and clear the field for others.

"It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it," said Fritz Wenzel, of Wenzel Strategies, which did the telephone poll Thursday.

Tuesday afternoon on Fox, the hosts of The Five took a break from covering the Oklahoma tornado aftermath to turn their attention to tea party rallies across the country today and mainstream media's refusal to take them seriously.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 17, 2011, 11:05pm ET -- Rep. Ron Paul may have won the presidential straw poll at the California GOP 2011 Fall Convention pulling away, but at a party dinner Friday evening, where Rep.

White House spokesman Jay Carney brought up birtherism while answering questions Tuesday, mocking reporters for repeatedly asking questions on a number of recent scandals.

Democrat Jim Graves was feeling good as he sat down for an interview with Salon in Washington Monday, the same day his campaign released a poll showing him two points ahead of Rep.

Recently, I asked Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, one of the most fiercely pro-choice members of Congress, why she thought the House of Representatives had been so muted this year in its introduction of anti-abortion and anti-Planned Parenthood bills.

While there has been plenty to find fault with in the revelation that the IRS targeted some tea party groups seeking tax exempt status, some of the Republican rhetoric has been an overreach.

A top GOP ad firm's split took a litigious turn earlier this month, when Rex Elsass, the CEO and founder of The Strategy Group for Media, filed suit against his company's former president, Nick Everhart.

New details in IRS probe : White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, learned last month of the inspector general's review of whether the IRS targeted conservative groups, but the aides did not tell President Obama.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., listens as Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder the Tea Party Patriots, speaks during a news conference.

The targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service was initially disclosed by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS director of the exempt organizations division.

Last fall, Alex Gibney, a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 2008 for an expos of torture at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, completed a film called "Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream." It was scheduled to air on PBS on November 12th.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., warned viewers of looming problems with the Internal Revenue Service playing a role in implementing President Barack Obama's health care law.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., warned viewers of looming problems with the Internal Revenue Service playing a role in implementing President Barack Obama's health care law.