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Eleven months before the 2008 New Hampshire Primary, then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul made his first trip to New Hampshire very serious about a presidential run.

U.S. Sen. John McCain visited Boston Monday to stump and fundraise for fellow Navy veteran and Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez, who ramped up his attacks on opponent U.S. Rep.

Why Sarah Palin? Because when I write a blog here on Jeb Bush or President Obama, it will bring in maybe 10 comments.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

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.

A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying that the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers trying to "drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations." The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a ... (more)

Rand Paul blasted President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their security failures in Benghazi in a Herald interview ahead of the U.S. senator from Kentucky's keynote speech to New Hampshire Republicans tomorrow that's further fueling talk he is eyeing a 2016 White House bid.

On Monday, former Rep. Ron Paul claimed Benghazi is the result of American " interventionism " and asserted that therefore neither Republicans nor Democrats are getting it right when they seek to explain the causes of the attacks.

Jim Stott, co-owner of Stonewall Kitchen, left, speaks about once needing a bone marrow transfusion and wonders, if he didn't have health insurance at the time, what would have been the outcome.

By A. Coskun Samli Summary via publisher, Palgrave Macmillan Dwindling innovation and deteriorating economic conditions are caused by a major force, a systemic shift in the American economy.

The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republicans that the federal government has become too big and out of control.

It is the city's primary industry, the manufacture of outrage and the accompanying steady flow of cattle excrement that is its natural byproduct.

It was no coincidence that former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel chose the opening day of the Georgia Republican Party state convention in Athens to announce her candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Friday.

What? Charles Johnson reports for TheDC: "The Department of Homeland Security, which under Secretary Janet Napolitano has shown a keen interest in monitoring and warning about outspoken conservatives, takes a very different approach in monitoring political Islamists, according to a 2011 memo on protecting the free speech rights of pro-sharia Muslim ... (more)

Mike Collins announced Thursday that he wants to follow his father's footsteps to Congress by pursuing the seat Rep.

In the wake of Rand Paul's trip last week to Iowa , which seemed design to launch a 2016 presidential candidacy, certain elements of his potential nomination-campaign coalition are looking at each other with suspicion.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

Rand Paul says ambassador to Libya killed for gun-running in Benghazi. Right-wing hones Republican Benghazi meme pointed at White House.

Tea Party leaders say the IRS scandal confirms their worst fears about a federal government they see as too big and too powerful.

NOTE: Posting will be light this week as the Institute for Southern Studies moves to its new offices at MDC in downtown Durham.