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Clinton leads 2016 poll in Iowa, But Rand Paul is Close
As far as the pollsters are concerned, the 2016 race is underway. And Kentucky Sen.
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Guitar Center Employees Unionize in New York
Employees at Guitar Center's flagship store in Manhattan overwhelmingly voted on Friday to form a union of its 57 retail workers.
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GOP strategist cut gun-group ads
The ads that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun group has run defending Sen.
14 hrs ago | Salon
It's time to call out a major Republican theme of how politics should be practiced in a democracy: the supposed right to be free from criticism.
18 hrs ago | Deseret News
Republican student loan bill passes US House
Unless current law is changed, rates for some types of federal loans to needy undergraduates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1. A republican proposal to tie interest rates on students loans to the governments cost of borrowing passed the U.S. House of Representatives but faces opposition in the Senate.
Mark Davis: Bulletin: We Are Still at War
With those words Wednesday, the South London attacker with blood-soaked hands did us the favor of reminding us what we are up against.
Mike Scinto Conservative American
It was sometime in the mid 1990s. I had been out in the heat much of the day and needed air conditioning and a cold drink.
Nomination Puts Nuland, Hill on Collision Course
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland arrives to listen to Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speak to the press at the State Department in Washington on Feb.
GOP congressman outraged IRS didn't investigate how Harry Reid 'obtained' Mitt Romney's tax returns
Just when you thought you couldn't possibly get another laugh out of Harry Reid's claim that an anonymous source had told him Mitt Romney hadn't paid a single dime in taxes over the past decade, along comes this sublime moment from GOP congressman Paul Gosar during Wednesday's House Government Oversight Committee's IRS hearing: REP.
Chris Christie still loving on Obama
Doing all he can to change the subject amid a number of swirling controversies, President Obama plans to return to New Jersey on Tuesday to survey recovery efforts still underway in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy .
We must confront growing poverty rate in suburban Indy
The soaring poverty rate in the suburbs, spotlighted in an important new book from the Brookings Institution, underscores the pressing need for low-cost solutions that have support across party lines.
Billionaire's super PAC on offense
The super PAC created by San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer is preparing a new offensive in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Ohio Voter Fraud - Does Exist,' But - Not an Epidemic'
In what was one of the 2012 election cycle's most important battleground states, "voter fraud does exist," Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted acknowledged in a report on Thursday.
Peggy Noonan, Nate Silver & Punditry
Nate Silver kicked up a minor fuss last Friday with yet another NY Times column deriding the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan .
IRS, EPA and HUD will close Friday
Three of the largest federal agencies will close to the public on Friday, the first time since the government shutdowns of the 1990s that large corners of the government have ceased operations on a weekday.
Exclusive: Mitt Romney's Message to Classmate in 1965 High-School Yearbook
One Kelli Allman, a high-school friend of President Obama, shared with Time magazine the message a young "Barry" wrote in her high-school yearbook.
Coburn: Constituents link IRS audits to Mitt Romney donations [our whistleblower side is lit up]
Sen. Tom Coburn said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.
Source: Pritzker to be grilled about off-shore assets
Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a ... (more)
Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban
Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday, picking up a sign to urge Scout leaders to retain the ban.
Congressional source on Pritzker nomination: 'There's a certain level of hypocrisy'
Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican Senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a ... (more)