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Aides pointed to several news stories during O’Malley’s time in office that were based on the release of his private e-mails under the Maryland Public Information Act. Not all were flattering. In 2012, for example, there were stories about O’Malley’s correspondence with Perdue’s corporate lawyer as Maryland weighed farm pollution regulations being closely tracked by the poultry producer

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Boehner: Obama present votes 'chicken *$!*%' Ben Smith Ben Smith 1 hr 31 mins ago House minority leader John Boehner's spokesman confirms the accuracy of this quote, from an Ohio student newspaper: "Now, listen, I've voted 'present' two or three times in my entire 25-year political career, where there might have been a conflict of interest and I didn't feel like I should vote," Boehner said. "In Congress, we have a red button, a green button and a yellow button, alright. Green means 'yes,' red means 'no,' and yellow means you're a chicken s***. "And the last thing we need...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A growing number of senior American military officers in Iraq have concluded that there is no long-term military solution to an insurgency that has killed thousands of Iraqis and more than 1,300 U.S. troops during the past two years. Instead, officers say, the only way to end the guerilla war is through Iraqi politics - an arena that so far has been crippled by divisions between Shiite Muslims, whose coalition dominated the January elections, and Sunni Muslims, who are a minority in Iraq but form the base of support for the insurgency.

Washington, DC - The following is a statement by Keith Ashdown, Vice-President of Taxpayers for Common Sense on the Corporate Tax Bill: More boring than War & Peace and more complicated than ancient Greek, the 900-page corporate tax bill is riddled with wasteful add-ons for almost every special interest in Washington. In fact, if you work on K Street and aren’t getting anything out of this legislation, you should be fired. 147 out of 265 provisions in the corporate tax bill were added since October and we still have dozens of amendments to debate. Some of the highlights in the...