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WASHINGTON – Have a million bucks to spare? If so, Republicans may want to pass the hat your way. Unaccustomed to playing catch-up in the game of big money politics, GOP activists are struggling to persuade wealthy donors to write seven-figure checks to new outside political groups they want to …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: To Tell the Truth California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa says his effort to get the truth behind Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak’s claim that the White House offered him a job to get him to abandon his Senate bid will not end once …

I’m going to start today with a little pop quiz: What did Iran do this week? You might have answered that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran will deliver a “telling blow” to global powers on February 11 (the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution). Yes, he did do that. But that’s …

Affiliation with organized religion is at a 50-year low among young people, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion. The study focused on the generation known as The Millennials — those under 30, born after 1980. But the data “doesn’t necessarily mean that young people …

If you’re like me — and, congratulations if you are — then you try to enjoy your weekends. For example, I spent last Saturday in bed, watching my favorite soaps, eating doughnut holes basted in NyQuil. I call them Happy Holes and after seven of them, you think you’re an …

The 2008 election was supposed to be about change: Yet another politician promising to change the tone in Washington. We were told unifying times were ahead; this was the great healer. But every single time this administration is met with opposition, what’s the response? Is it honest debate? An open …

I told you last week about Van Jones getting the NAACP Image Award. Here’s how he closed his speech: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS ‘CZAR’: To my fellow countryman, Mr. Glenn Beck. I see you and I love you, brother. I love you and you …

When a transocean oil rig exploded on April 20 leaving 11 workers presumed dead and tens of thousands of barrels of oil shooting into the Gulf of Mexico a day, the media didn’t seem to think it was a big deal. Three days later, on April 23, White House press …

Now, because I am a simple man, I eat at diners all the time. They don’t confuse me. I get one fork, not five. And there is no fusion in my scrambled eggs. The other day I was talking to the boss at a diner near me on Long Island …

How many times have you read something like this on The Huffington Post or George Soros’ Media Matters and Think Progress and the Center of American Progress: “Glenn Beck and ‘Fixed News’ launch another smear campaign!” “Glenn Beck takes Fred Noogleburger out of context!” “Glenn Beck baselessly distorts. Glenn Beck …