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Starting today, the state of Florida requires a doctor to perform an ultrasound prior to any abortion service, whether it is medically necessary or not.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says he thinks Clinton will succeed. But he’s the one making the uncomfortable statements about the Clinton Foundation. It’s a

A new tweet from the governor of Alaska reveals her choice of reading material; the new, bestselling book from the legal-minded conservative radio host.

Public Policy Polling, conducting an automated poll on the Massachusetts Senate race, is finding good data for Republican candidate Scott Brown. According to

Former U.S.

Meet the next commander of the beleagured Afghanistan war. The Senate confirmed now-four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal by voice vote this afternoon.

Immigration courts are experiencing a massive backlog, with a 459-day average waiting time before cases are heard by a federal judge. Nearly 248,000 cases were

Joe Biden thanks George Bush for his role in ending the Iraq war. A poll shows Rahm Emanuel leading other possible mayoral candidates in Chicago. The star

I spent most of my day at the J Street conference, but took a few breaks for recreation -- in this case two impromptu roundtables with prominent aides to Iraqi

Today’s loophole alert regarding financial reform comes from The Wall Street Journal, which points out that USAA, an insurer that serves military families,

The Wall Street Journal’s influential political diarist tackles the Massachusetts special election in a new column, running up against the same issue that every

Here’s the text of an ad that the Republican National Committee is running on health care, with Chairman Michael Steele doing the voiceover. The Democrats are

It’s no mystery that some Democrats are hoping to extend emergency unemployment benefits even further into next year -- both to acknowledge a jobless rate

Not many generals have been inclined to portray calm in Iraq as irreversible. But in southern Iraq, where violence has declined so steeply that now U.S. troops

On Tuesday the Everglades Foundation and contractors involved in restoration efforts called on the Florida legislature to maintain funding for the programs, saying cuts would cost private sector jobs. # Funding for the efforts peaked at $200 million under Jeb Bush, and under Gov

For environmentalists hoping that the new Democratic margins in Congress might lead to the return of a decades-old moratorium on offshore oil drilling -- you

That’s the question being asked by 43 House Democrats, who wrote a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week urging the

SARANAC LAKE, NY - Just after midnight, the sound was cut on the TVs in the Hotel Saranac ballroom and a thinning crowd walked in front of a podium. Mike Long,

The American Cause, the Pat and Bay Buchanan-run coalition that employs Marcus Epstein, is holding a national conference in Virginia this weekend on the theme

High gas prices are spurring support for offshore drilling, which experts say won’t alleviate the pain at the pump.

It continues with an op-ed in The Washington Post on Why I commuted Maurice Clemmons’s sentence. On this issue, the problem conservatives have with Huckabee,

A happy tax day to all readers. Yesterday, I took a look at the conservative talking point that only 47 percent of Americans pay income taxes. Today, Keith

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based organization responsible for much of the non-partisan data analysis on immigration