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As Jeb Bush weighs a run for the White House, his prospective candidacy is being praised by a well-known Republican who helped organize his brother's successful campaigns in 2000 and 2004.

In this week's Republican address, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee criticizes Democratic approaches to government, saying that Dems in Washington want to mandate what Americans can and cannot do.

The binder of opposition research on Republicans, part of today's release of roughly 7,500 pages of documents from the Bill Clinton presidential library, was indexed with topics ranging from "Richard Mellon Scaife -- The Wizard of Oz Behind The Foster Conspiracy Industry" to "Communications on the Net Between Congressional Republicans and Right ... (more)

Coming a half year after Republicans had won control of Congress in the 1994 GOP landslide, Mr. Clinton's speech set was to unveil his own balanced budget plan.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's exit poll numbers didn't seem to match up with reality during the 2012 GOP primaries.

One Year After Metcalf: Nearly Devastating Attack on a Key Substation Shows Necessity of Fixing the Power Grid Legislators, Experts to Discuss What Must and Can Be Done On the first anniversary of a nearly devastating attack on the Metcalf Substation outside San Jose, California, a group called, " Secure the Grid Coalition " convened a symposium on ... (more)

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, widely considered a rising star in the Republican Party and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, will be the commencement speaker at Liberty University on May 10. "Many believe could hold the highest office in the land someday," Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. said in a statement on Wednesday .

Stacy Lee George, the state corrections officer who is challenging Gov. Robert Bentley in the June 3 primary, lost the last three times he ran for office in his home county and is separated from his fourth wife.

"My husband John is running for Congress, because the dreams of our children are threatened by Washington," says Heather Whitestone McCallum.

When Republican presidential hopefuls met with Sheldon Adelson in Las Vegas last month, the billionaire Casino mogul who almost single-handedly kept the Newt Gingrich primary campaign alive in 2012, had just announced his intention to back the Republican candidate with the clearest shot at winning the White House in 2016.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

Not everyone wants to be the background music for a political campaign, and John Mellencamp knows that all too well.

Let's say you got into politics running for office as a Democrat. You hate Rupert Murdoch and Fox News and the Wall Street Journal , and you really, really hate Bill .

At this time in 1994, voters across the United States were frustrated with a Democratic president who had over-reached on health care and whose minions in both houses of Congress were helping him broaden regulations and raise taxes - all under a cloud of corruption that was almost palpable.

JUNE 13: Republican candidates former U.S. senator. Rick Santorum , U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann , former House speaker Newt Gingrich, former governor Mitt Romney , U.S. Rep. Ron Paul , former governor Tim Pawlenty , and businessman Herman Cain prepare for their debate June 13, 2011, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. It was this week two ... (more)

As usual, Al Sharpton has an answer. How is it possible, I ask him, that he carries so much tainted baggage from the past, yet still enjoys enormous pull with the political class? "It's because I have access to some of the voters they're trying to reach," he tells me matter-of-factly.

Raising money for Republicans must be a scam artist's dream, whether you're talking about Newt Gingrich getting millions from Sheldon Adelson to wage a hopeless presidential campaign or you're talking about Karl Rove's exceptional talent at convincing wealthy GOP donors to part with their cash.

Great letter, Mr. Columbo. I refer to your "You may be part of the Problem." In it you state that "It is you, the apathetic majority of Americans" who are to blame for America's ills.

The campaign tells the Federal Election Commission that its debt on April 1, 2014, was just $14,507 less than the amount owed on May 31, 2012 - the month Gingrich officially suspended his White House bid.

Something strange happened last weekend. At a recent conservative confab that attracted many top Republicans, no one railed against same-sex marriage.