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Washington Wire. Political Insight and Analysis From The Wall Street Journal's Capital Bureau. Rand Paul Leads in Kentucky Polling · Obama's Remarks at Labor Rally in Wisconsin. September 6, 2010, 8:34 AM ET ...

Politics of Pot: Marijuana on Four Ballots Energizes Political Debate. Marijuana is on the ballot in four states this November, including the first effort of its kind in California to fully legalize pot, but don't expect politicians to ...

Summary: Republican brass in Washington and Delaware are stepping up their attack on Christine O'Donnell, who is taking on Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP primary for the Senate seat in Delaware.

It's Tuesday, September 7th, 2010, and post-summer state political news jumps quickly out of the gate ... The Assembly Appropriations Committee holds a hearing into the mistake on the state's Race to the Top application that caused New ...

Governor Rick Perry today sent a letter to school administrators across the state detailing his efforts to try to access the $830 million in federal funds for Texas schools that Lloyd Doggett's anti-Texas amendment to the federal ...

WASHINGTON -- John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head. But the perpetually tanned, chain-smoking Ohioan might be the next House speaker and a huge force in national politics, trying ...

This is why the brain loves Washington D.C. -- it willingly bows down to the pseudo-creative answer of "bipartisan politics" that it lets you think you came up with brilliantly, all the while it rolled a smoke bomb ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's decision to bypass Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository should give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a boost in his bid for a fifth term. The action is ...

politics is about following the herd as opposed to providing leadership," Johnson ... An ABC News/Washington Post poll in January found that 81 percent of Americans supported medical marijuana laws.

I have been going to Mount Vernon [George Washington's estate]," he said explaining some of his movements ... Beck was peddling the same old lying politics.

Raising the Social Security retirement age has become as close to a consensus position as exists in American politics. House Minority ... almost the reverse of the conversation in Washington, where affluent people ...

illustrating the challenges that Democrats face in an election season in which the Washington establishment is viewed as being in the mud. "Some more corn?" Mr. Glassman asked, working his way down the long picnic ...

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, talks about Google Inc.'s lobbying efforts on proposed rules for Internet traffic. She talks with Carol Massar on ...

water resources and roads. 10th Amendment and health insurance Bentley's anti-Washington rhetoric has a long history in Alabama gubernatorial politics, from George Wallace to Fob James. In a familiar refrain,