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Embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele abandoned his re-election bid Friday after four rounds of balloting left him far short of a Second Term. Steele, who just finished his first two-year term in the job, left four othe…

As Hot Air readers know, I’m a big fan of NFL football, and my weekly football picks are one of my favorite regular features.  I also love to follow and write about politics, too.  That doesn’t mean that I think mixing the …

The end is near, and now he faces the final curtain -- but Michael Steele has sure done it his way. The Republican National Committee is holding its election for chair today, with the Incumbent Chairman Steele widely expected to lose. He may ver…

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal on “the Manichaean wing of American Liberalism:” As we have noted, the New York Times’s response to last weekend’s murders in Tucson was to instigate a witch hunt against Republica…

Just as Americans are debating whether untamed political Rhetoric inspired the shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona, the founder of a project to promote civility in politics is calling it quits because only three elected members of Congress agr…

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor At a moment when many Americans are decrying the overheated tone of American politics, an influential Evangelical voice said Tuesday he is folding a project he helped found to increase political civility. M…

A reader forwarded an e-mail sent today by Rep. Tim Bishop seeking contributions to Babylon Town Supervisor Steve Bellone, who has been not-so-quietly raising campaign cash for a likely challenge to his former fellow Democrat, Suffolk County Execu…

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Carney, who was -- like Gabrielle Giffords -- targeted by Sarah Palin in a campaign whose graphic put a gunsight on their districts "I'm not sure if 'blame' is the right word for Ms. Palin, but I think it wasn…