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Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have found themselves on opposing sides in the Texas Senate GOP primary. Each has previously made an endorsement: Perry for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst; Palin for former state Solicitor General Ted Cruz.

for making hefty donations. News of the Justice Department probe was first referenced in a New Republic story on Ohio politics that was published early Friday. In it, a reporter with the magazine interviewed a Suarez employee about whether his contributions

The debate intensified after the administration announced, on February 10, a future “accommodation” of Catholic concerns; but the proposed “accommodation” was an accounting shell game that would change absolutely nothing in either the moral or the legal st

Super PACs have jumped feet first into congressional races in recent weeks, the latest public disclosures show, with the conservative groups Club for Growth Action and FreedomWorks for America leading the way. The most recent batch of campaign finance repo

We have reached an endpoint of sorts in the decade-long Afghanistan War. President Obama will not keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban and force them to accept terms of any kind. Have we lost the war? Should we have left years ago, or neve

In this combo made from file photos, President Obama, speaks at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop in Wilmington, Del. (Carolyn Kaster, Evan Vucci / AP File Photo / April 25,

Congressional candidate Ron DeSantis today picked up the endorsement of FreedomWorks PAC in his race for the GOP nomination in Florida’s open and strongly Republican 6th district. “Ron DeSantis is the perfect example of a constitutionally-limited governmen

Nice to see that they’re keeping up with events, huh? Anyway, as a good general rule: if you have a politician from your own side rushing to push back on your new angle of attack, then you may have a problem. If you then have to make that politician explai

Today is May 21st. On this date in 1602, Martha’s Vineyard was first sighted by English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold. At the time, the island was peopled entirely by the indigenous tribe known as the Kennedys. When he made landfall, Gosnold was offered bra

All four of his fellow commissioners (2 democrat, 2 republican) sent a letter to the President detailing how damaging this man was to the NRC. He has not \"done a good job\" at all, and that is not a 'partisan' assessment. He is a bully and has withheld vita