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Alabama politician considering launching congressional race from jail

Alex Pappas
Political Reporter

Former Alabama politician Stephen Nodine says he is seriously considering running for Congress even though he is a convicted felon and still serving time in jail.

Tea party against sending arms to Syrian rebels

1:46 PM 06/19/2013

WASHINGTON -- At a large tea party rally Wednesday, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck changed the topic from domestic policy, railing against the Obama administration’s arming of Syrian rebels while the crowd booed loudly in agreement.

Tea Party Patriots: ‘The largest Tea party protest since 2010 is tomorrow’

1:10 PM 06/18/2013

Conservative activists are planning to storm Capitol Hill on Wednesday for what they are predicting will be "the largest Tea Party protest since 2010."

Poll: More Americans think White House ordered IRS targeting

8:46 AM 06/18/2013

An increasing number of Americans say they believe that the White House was more involved in the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service than Obama administration officials are willing to admit, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Photographer defends Rand Paul photo shoot depicting senator as a liar

2:00 PM 06/17/2013

The photographer behind a peculiar new magazine cover arguing that Rand Paul “can’t be trusted” claims he’s not a “gotcha journalist.”

The one place in the world where the U.S. Congress is loved: Europe

12:02 AM 06/17/2013

STRASBOURG, France -- Believe it or not, but in the age of tea party disgust with Washington politicians, Congress is actually still quite popular.

Conservative blogger running against liberal firebrand Alan Grayson

8:19 AM 06/10/2013

A conservative blogger has thrown his hat into the ring to challenge Rep. Alan Grayson, the liberal firebrand from Florida.

Conservatives want former Obama aide Stephanie Cutter to testify on IRS

12:02 PM 06/07/2013

A conservative group wants a former top aide to President Barack Obama to testify before Congress on the scandals facing the Internal Revenue Service.

New app claims to prevent government eavesdropping on cell phones

10:47 PM 06/06/2013

The developers of a new mobile app may have just caught a break --- and found a new group of potential customers --- with the revelation that government is secretly snooping on Verizon cell phone users.

Rand Paul: NSA seizure of phone records ‘an astounding assault on the Constitution’

12:26 PM 06/06/2013

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday responded to the revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly obtaining phone records of Verizon customers by calling it ‘an astounding assault on the Constitution.”

IRS official grilled on Mr. Spock video, plastic squirting fish

11:35 AM 06/06/2013

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill grilled an ashamed official with the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday about why he allowed the agency to wastefully spend taxpayer money on things like a Star Trek parody video and plastic squirting fish during a 2010 conference for employees.

Pro-weed Democrats share positive stories about marijuana

1:06 PM 06/05/2013

WASHINGTON - Five liberals in the House of Representatives stood outside the Capitol with representatives of the cannabis industry on Wednesday to call for new laws that would allow legal marijuana businesses to be treated by the Internal Revenue Service like any other industry.

Poll: McConnell would defeat top Democratic challengers

2:18 PM 06/04/2013

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell would handily defeat any of the top three Democrats considering running against him in 2014, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Conservative groups reveal ‘chilling’ information requests from the IRS

12:54 PM 06/04/2013

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of conservative groups targeted for extra scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill about the "chilling" demands from the agency as they sought tax exempt status over the last several years.

Geraldo Rivera on New Jersey Senate appointment: ‘I would definitely take the call’

2:12 PM 06/03/2013

Veteran journalist Geraldo Rivera said Monday he’d “take the call” if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wanted to appoint him to New Jersey’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, but acknowledged the chances of that seem slim.

McConnell bugger: ‘Most of my family was in the tea party before he pretended to be’

11:18 PM 06/02/2013

Curtis Morrison came clean last week, admitting that he secretly recorded Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell conducting a campaign strategy session in February.

Even some West Wing aides want Holder to resign

5:26 PM 06/02/2013

Republicans have long been calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign.

Suspected McConnell bugger admits he could soon face federal charges

12:28 PM 05/31/2013

A liberal activist in Kentucky acknowledged Friday that he could soon find himself indicted on federal charges of illegally secretly recording a campaign strategy session of Republican Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Aspiring rapper names himself Rhymes Priebus

3:37 PM 05/30/2013

Playing off the name of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, a 26-year-old aspiring rapper in Chicago is apparently referring to himself as “Rhymes Priebus."

FBI: ‘Multiple high-profile targets’ in ricin attack campaign

11:40 AM 05/30/2013

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not the only “high-profile” gun control proponent who has been sent ricin, according to a law enforcement source.