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WILMINGTON, Del. -- On the eve of the primary that would end his electoral career, Rep. Mike Castle was in a reflective mood.

The talking heads on the Tea Party right are condemning the Democrats because unemployment is high. Apparently the Tea Party thinks it's the federal government's responsibility to guarantee jobs to everyone. Sorry, folks, it doesn't work that way in the real America. Businesses create...

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Former North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Gary Emineth told Forum Communications Co. this morning that he is considering challenging Michael Steele for the national chairman post. However, Emineth said he did not step down as state chairman last week "to take...

The frenzied Tea Partiers with their clenched fists in the air, waving banners with false accusations and vicious innuendos, remind me of the crowd surrounding Christ prior to his crucifixion. It appears that things haven't changed much in the past 2,000 years. Allen Iverson S...

For the past year, a passionate group of Americans have rallied together under the banner of the "tea party," altering the direction of the nation's political discourse in the early years of Barack Obama's presidency. The Associated Press reviewed tea party operations in almost every...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa is a politically active state, but it doesn't seem especially interested in the tea party protest movement that is drawing so much attention nationally. Some Iowans have signed onto the anti-government effort, but activists have staged only one big rally.

A Bemidji man was injured when he fell out of a party bus early Sunday morning on Highway 108 just east of Ottertail. Benjamin L. Frisk, 24, was taken to the Perham hospital, where he was treated and released, according to a hospital spokesman. He was standing by the steps to the...

WASHINGTON -- Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush? How would our friends on the right have reacted to someone at a Reagan or a Bush speech carrying...