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The race for the open Connecticut Senate seat, which has been seen as a possible pick up for Republicans, is trending to stay in Democratic hands, narrowing the number of opportunities the GOP has to win the Senate. (more)

Jack Conway, the Democratic attorney general of Kentucky who is running for U.S. Senate, says he was not involved in a recent criminal investigation involving his brother and drug trafficking. (more)

The word “profit” has two too many letters in it to accurately reflect the way in which it has been treated by the Obama administration. Attacks on profit, the only thing that allows everyone in the private sector to be employed (aside from government bailouts), have risen to an unprecedented level in the last 20 months. You’d think companies like Koch Industries were out raping and pillaging small villages rather than employing people and providing needed services. So it comes as no surprise that there are attacks on for-profit colleges by politicians for costing taxpayers more than the subsidized educational institutions. Unfortunately for those with anti-profit agendas, the facts simply aren’t on their side. (more)

What is the cost of corruption in government? For Rhode Island’s Central Falls, the smallest and most densely populated city in the nation, the cost of corruption was so great that it put the city into bankruptcy. And one reporter got it all on video. (more)

Virginia’s fiery attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, who argued against the constitutionality of the health care law in federal court this week, has a new line: President Obama is worse than King George III, the English king in power when Americans declared independence in 1776. (more)

Democrat Jack Conway ran into trouble defending his accusations against Kentucky Senate challenger Republican Rand Paul on MSNBC’s “Hardball” Monday night, with host Chris Matthews drilling Conway for a campaign ad attacking Paul. (more)

A Virginia court became the first in the country to hear oral arguments on the constitutional merits of the new federal health care law Monday, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance. (more)

The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the detention and interrogation of an American Muslim who was wrongly suspected of involvement with terrorists. (more)

Top legal officers of all 50 states opened a joint investigation into home foreclosures, saying they will probe practices at banks and mortgage companies. (more)

Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for Attorney General Jack Conway in Lexington on Monday, delivering a hard-nosed repudiation of Republican Rand Paul’s “radical ideas” to cut government spending. (more)

When Randy Persten’s mortgage was foreclosed in 2008, he looked at the paperwork and found a mystery. A company he’d never heard of — called Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS — was bringing the foreclosure action against him. (more)

Well, that didn’t take long. (more)

Matt Sissel of Iowa City proudly served in Iraq as a combat medic. But he objects to being “conscripted” into an overhauled federal health care system. (more)

Republican Rand Paul continues to hold a double-digit lead over Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race. (more)

Propelled by Connecticut likely voters who say they are “angry” with government, former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate, is closing in on Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, and now trails just 49 – 46 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. (more)

Hell hath no fury like a scorned Carl Paladino. So it would it seem, considering the letter the Republican nominee for governor in New York sent to his Democratic challenger, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. (more)

FreedomWorks held the second annual March on Washington and 9/12 rally on Sunday. Tea Partiers from around the country marched from the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building via Pennsylvania Avenue calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama to listen to the people about their concerns with government spending. (more)

On Sunday, for the second year in a row, former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks organization hosted a 9/12 March on Washington in Washington, D.C. The focus of this year’s political rally was on the Contract From America, a plan FreedomWorks has been asking politicians to sign and pledge to follow. The Contract is aimed at reducing spending and government involvement in people’s lives. (more)

The dam is breaking. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has begun answering the $100 million campaign of Republican rival Meg Whitman by announcing his first TV ad of the general election. (more)