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According to Harvard University's Institute of Politics survey, America's youth are abandoning Obama and the two-party federal government in general.

The Affordable Care Act's botched rollout may be giving legs to the national aspirations of Tea Party darling Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

In an appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) struggled to defend Obamacare under a litany of questions heaped on her.

All the bickering, backstabbing, and bushwhacking going on up on Capitol Hill has bothered me more than ever before. Maybe it is my age.

Washington - Scientists work with numbers a lot. Counting, weighing, percentages, etc. And as a scientist, I would say for the most part, we are good with numbers.

This past week appeared to be just another week riding down the road filled with potholes called partisan politics. Those small bumps in the road have become gaping holes over the past half a decade.

With the federal government shutdown now in its eighth day, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressed his frustration with the House GOP request for negotiations.

Washington - House Democrats are pushing forward with a rare procedural move called a "discharge petition." This will remove John Boehner and Tea Party extremists from the budget process for a vote on a clean spending bill.

The posturing politicians, pundits, and poobahs in Washington who participated in this latest partial government shutdown once more prove the wisdom of a couple of political tenets: All politics is local, and agents will act in their own best interests.

Washington - With the new federal government partially shut down thanks to the continual bickering of the two parties involved in Washington, many Government employees and agencies are now non-functional or outright closed down for the time being.