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Jim Risch had just asked Pat Kole of the Idaho Potato Commission about this year’s potato crop when his cell phone rang loudly, its bright, old-fashioned “brring, brring” ringtone startling everyone in the conference room of Risch’s Senate office. “Guys, this is the White House — I gotta take this,” Risch said, ducking out of the meeting. In his 10 years in the nation’s capital, Risch has gone from...

Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona stood up on the Senate floor and officially announced his retirement from the governing body. He’s not a p…

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There is plenty of nuttiness being uttered during this campaign season that gives any sentient voter cause to pause, but sometimes the inanity advances to the level of being outright...