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“Happy Tax Day,” said Tennessee Rep. Martha Blackburn to a crowd of tea partiers gathered at the Washington Monument Thursday evening. “Do you feel like you're getting your money's worth?”
SEOUL, South Korea - Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was hospitalized on Saturday after he complained of stomach pains, NBC News reported.
SIOUX CITY - Hundreds of fans of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gathered at a bookstore in Sioux City, Iowa, waiting early Sunday morning for Palin to arrive and begin autographing copies of her book, “Going Rogue.”
- Despite all the money and attention former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s autobiography is expected to draw as it hits bookshelves this week, it’s difficult to think of a national political figure who’s had a rougher year than the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
- The 2009 gubernatorial elections provided a much-needed momentum boost for Republicans after back-to-back election cycle drubbings.
- President Barack Obama believes in the saving grace of the federal government.
- Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics.
- A woman's "paramount destiny and mission," a U.S. Supreme Court justice once wrote, is to fulfill "the noble and benign offices of wife and mother."
The news that Social Security benefits will likely be frozen next year dismays many older Americans, who fear that rising expenses for necessities would drive them into retirement poverty.&
Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who has drawn fully clothed attention by saying she is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, was free this week after posting bond on a domestic violence charge.
- I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president.
When the University of Southern California’s juggernaut football team opens its season in September, could the Trojans be playing at the Taco Bell Coliseum?
- Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed Friday as part of an ongoing probe into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
NEW YORK - David Hackett Souter is not of this world. At least not the world many of us living in this nation's population centers experience on a daily basis in 2009.
WAKEFIELD, Va. - Across the country, several states host annual time-honored festivals mixing fun, food and politics.
- When it comes to political races, 2008 will certainly go down as a year to remember.
Despite a dizzying decline in tax revenues, many states aren’t lopping their payrolls as fast as private sector employers. And some intend to use part of the federal stimulus windfall headed their way to keep employees on their payrolls — at least for now.