President Barack Obama will commit the United States to a goal of substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade when he travels to a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month.

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The White House and Illinois Democrats said Tuesday that their bid to hold on to President Barack Obama's old Senate seat won't be easy and their difficulties aren't just because of the scandal that engulfed ousted Gov.

A cool-headed legal debate has replaced the once-passionate calls to oust Gov. Mark Sanford that began after his tearful summertime admission that he disappeared from the state to pursue an extramarital affair in Argentina.

President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said after he met with his national security team Monday night.

Via , don't you wish you were a Republican so you could vote for in North Carolina's 4th CD? So much fantastic to work with, but my favorite part is this: "America is a Great Nation, due to our Diversity;

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday night that the attacks on Sarah Palin, his former vice presidential running mate, are unlike anything he has ever seen. "I'm entertained and sometimes a little angry when I see this constant, vicious attacks

This wonder of evolution was actually the Bush Administration's top spokesperson: PERINO: Well, I...there is one thing that I would say about Ft. Hood that I feel strongly about, which is, and I don't say this to be political, I

of Sarah Palin fans: On the bright side, loving Sarah means never having to bother your pretty little head with pesky facts and whatnot -- she's "real" and that's all that matters.

Nate Silver : If I were Blanche's Lincoln's Chief of Staff, my advice to her would be as follows: Vote for cloture. Vote against the bill itself. Articulate this position clearly. And then Shut The Hell Up. Nate's point is

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Pre-Thanksgiving Thoughts My grandparents are long gone, so I've adopted octogenarian bloggers Margaret and Helen as my new ones. (Forgive me Nana, Bapa, Grams and Gramps—you'll always be my original Fab Four.) Helen, who

Your pre-Thanksgiving opinion sale, now with incredible bargains on foreign and domestic issues, and even a few offerings of facts (in short supply right now, but manufacture is ramping up.) Note that even with health reform, there's still things to

Sam Pizzigati : America's most affluent 1 percent now pay, on average, just 6.4 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes. But they actually pay even less than that, since they can deduct their state and local taxes

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It was just last week that Doug Hoffman, the failed teabagger candidate in New York's 23rd district, was that the election was stolen from him and that he needed donations now to fight ACORN, the unions, Obamacare and the socialist

Remember how we've been told that it wasn't twisted incentives that caused Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers executives to take excessive risks? Those executives, the conventional narrative has it, were paid largely in stock that plunged in value when their

Rahm Emanuel apparently to all White House Senior staffers Ron Brownstein's in the Atlantic, in which Brownstein thumbs his nose a bit a "Democratic liberals" and touts how much of the Baucus plan got into Reid's bill. Both the Senate

Palin 2012, the trailer (SNL recut): (Trailer starts at 1:15 mark in video clip.)

Max Sisulu, President of South Africa National Assembly, said in this capital that the international struggle for the freedom of the five Cuban antiterrorist unjustly incarcerated in the United States will succeed.

US Senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, has launched a new campaign against the US Government's waste of funds and, as his first targets, he has chosen Radio and TV Marti, whose news and program broadcasts began in the