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The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey points to a recent interview Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) gave to the conservative Website WorldNetDaily, in which Bachmann said she will only make a bid for president if God calls on her to run.
“If I felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it,” she [...]

With leading contenders for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination dropping like flies, an increasing amount of buzz has surrounded Haley Barbour, the cigar-chomping former Republican National Committee chairman and current governor of Mississippi. Speculation only crescendoed when Barbour visited Iowa and New Hampshire and met with top Republican strategists.
I caught up with the governor following [...]

The president-elect is something new in American politics. In showing unfailing respect for those with competing views, he attempts to produce solutions that will accommodate the defining commitments of his fellow citizens. But he also wants to transform the nation’s self-understanding.

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.

Vice presidents don’t matter? Think again. More than 30 percent have gone on to hold the higher office.

Murray Waas reports for the Atlantic that George W. Bush told Alberto Gonzales to make the now-infamous March 2004 hospital bed visit to John Ashcroft to convince the attorney general to sign off on a secret domestic surveillance program.

As The Washington Post previewed this morning, Citizens for Responsibility for Ethics, a watchdog group, along with two historians and three historical organizations, filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court this afternoon against the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and Allen Weinstein, head of the National Archives.
The lawsuit doesn’t concern anything Cheney has actually [...]