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The Battle Over Gun Control Follows Key Senators Back Home
There's no place like home for Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) after they voted to kill the bill expanding gun...
Caramel Apple
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, was welcomed to Washington Tuesday like a conquering corporate hero, not the boss of a firm that has found all sorts of ways to...
“We’re a counterbalance to China. That’s what we heard from the leaders in these countries.”
Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte, telling Foreign Policy‘s “The Cable” blog about her whirlwind tour around Southeast Asia earlier this month with senators John...
Senators Just Passing Around Fake Pictures of bin Laden on Their Blackberries
This is probably the most troubling sentence you’ll read today: “While I was shown a photo by another senator of what appeared to be a deceased Osama bin Laden,...
The Dealmaker
The fate of immigration reform was up for grabs in early June when Chuck Schumer jumped on the phone with an unlikely ally. The bipartisan proposal to rewrite...
It’s Not Just Hagel: Brennan Delayed, Too
Is Barack Obama’s preferred CIA director in real, Hagel-level trouble?
What You Missed While Not Watching the First Night of the Republican Convention
The hurricane couldn’t stop it. The weak economy didn’t underfund it. The orange-bottomed girls at the Hooter’s down the street won’t distract from it. Day one...
That Old Benghazi Magic
The Pentagon screws up. A lot. Sometimes here at Battleland, we even take note of it when it happens. But watching Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Armed...
Sauer Grapes: Do the Lockheed and McCain Dots Connect?
Senator John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and the Lockheed Martin Corp. have been behaving in ways that parallel one another. That could be explained by their common...
Handicapping the Veepstakes: Romney’s Rules of the Road
We've spent a lot of pixels analyzing some of Mitt Romney's vice presidential options. There's a reason for this, and it's not simply because surveying the field...
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Will Bloomberg Stop Attacking Dems?
Ever since the failed Senate vote on a background check compromise two months ago, Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun violence group has spent millions eviscerating Republican senators like Kelly Ayotte ...
Granite Status What is Sen. Ayotte up to on immigration reform bill?
Here was Kelly Ayotte being criticized by conservatives and praised by liberals and moderates for her sudden support for the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill. Was this a...
John DiStaso's Granite Status New pro- Ayotte ad on immigration reform former NHGOP...
As two pro-immigration reform groups jointly sponsor a new TV ad praising Sen. Kelly Ayotte, former state GOP Chair Jack Kimball blasts out an Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC...
Sen. Kelly Ayotte Why I8217m backing legislation to fix the broken immigration system
Our immigration system is broken and must be fixed. ...
