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Keeping the devil in the hole: Boehner, Jeb sign up for...

Congress is more polarized today than it was in the wake of the Civil War. Let that sink in for a minute. The country's...

High Noon: Bush-Clinton redux; best and worst in CoPolitics 2014; new...

John Tomasic: Hi again readers, debaters, tweeters. It's nearly high noon, which means the air is soon to become thick with rhetorical gunsmoke. Independence...

Wiretap: ‘Such an attack is perfect revenge’

The Pakistani Taliban tried to justify their horrendous school massacre -- in which they killed more than 100 children -- as an act of...

Wiretap: French vote to recognize Palestinian state, hope to nudge Israel

The French National Assembly voted to recognize a Palestinian state on Tuesday. The move comes after similar votes in Britain and Spain, according to...

Wiretap: Ted Cruz champing at bit to hold GOP-led Senate hearings

Cruz wants to get Washington working! First order of business is to repeal Obamacare and hold hearings “looking at the abuse of power... the lawlessness that sadly has pervaded this administration.”

Jeb Bush stumps at state GOP rally; Gardner still the star

“This really smells like Colorado!” Ken Buck exclaimed upon taking the podium Wednesday night at the Douglas County Fairground event center in Castle Rock....

Wiretap: A New York Times multi-point Obamacare inspection

  Is Obamacare working? That's a complicated question, nearly as complex as the law itself. The New York Times did a full-scale investigation and found,...

Wiretap: Big man bully on the west bank of the Hudson

Ryan Lizza's great New Yorker piece is about Chris Christie, Bridgegate, the peculiarities of New Jersey politics and how the big man bullied his way to the top.

Littwin: Jeb’s ‘act of love’ roils Tanc’s toxic GOP

The big question in Republican circles is what exactly Jeb Bush was trying to accomplish with his "act of love" speech the other day.

Wiretap: Jeb Bush’s next-generation compassionate conservativism

"They crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love."