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Sarah Palin has repeatedly expressed that First Lady Michelle Obama ’s antiobesity campaign leaves a bad taste in her mouth. Already Republican Mike Huckabee declared his allegiance to Team Michelle on the issue. And now, somewhat surprisin…

Discussing the bizarre obsession among some on the right with Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign, Fred Hiatt points out that the First Lady isn't actually proposing scary-sounding social engineering policies: "Insinuations from her crit…

Jim DeMint, the hardline conservative senator from South Carolina, must be a Socialist. In an exchange with Meet the Press’s David Gregory, a nervously coughing DeMint said Republicans plan to cut only Social Security “waste” a…

When I learned today that the federal Bureaucracy had promulgated a rule compensating physicians for the time they spend counseling patients on end-of-life health-care decisions, I wasn’t surprised. A similar provision was dropped from the O…

by Conor Friedersdorf A Dish reader passes on extended thoughts about Haley Barbour and how he relates to the history of his hometown: As a Southerner born in the late 1960s, I've always struggled to understand what happened in the Civil Rig…

The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. A new political reality hits Washington next week, with the first split Congress since 2004 raising questions about whether…

Leave it to a logger to puncture the Working Class fantasies of a well-heeled Politico such as Sarah Palin.  He didn’t have to know that she lives in a luxurious house off a lake or that she routinely is whisked away by bi-planes or tha…

Immigration reform will be a top priority for President Barack Obama in 2011, but Republicans have hinted that agenda item might not go anywhere when the new Congress convenes. In the president’s news conference after Congress took their fin…