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This is one of those lopsided things where if they win it’s nothing, said Grover Norquist, and if we win it’s the cover of Time magazine.

The U.S. House of Representatives could vote this week on a 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations bill passed last Thursday by the Appropriations Committee that includes expanded spending on immigration enforcement. # The Appropriations Committee members include Florida Republicans Ander Crenshaw, C.W.

New Mexico lost 30,600 non-farm jobs from June 2006 to June 2011, placing it 22nd out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in job numbers, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, there was overall job growth in three of the past five years

As the swine flu has caused the United States to declare a health emergency and the European Union to warn against travel to the U.S. and Mexico, The Nation’s

Not many party strategists were talking last night, but come January 2011, that’s who many expect to be filling the Senate seats of, respectively, Byron Dorgan

A new report (PDF) by the Migration Policy Institute released today provides a set of guidelines to curb illegal immigration employment in the U.S. and the

GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux (left) (Pic by Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Nicole Bieneman, via Wikimedia Commons) GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux today announced the launch of a new website that labels opponent Adam Hasner a “phony conservative.” LeMieux’s new website goes after Hasner for allegedly being a “ self-proclaimed moderate ,” as well as having an inconsistent record on conservative issues such as abortion and “school choice.” The website’s launch follows the Family Research Council’s endorsement of Hasner last week. The Research Council is a staunchly conservative anti-gay and anti-abortion rights advocacy group that routinely endorses the most conservative candidates running for federal office

U.S. Rep. Tom Latham (R-Ames) raised more than twice as much as U.S

As Dave Weigel notes, the Tea Party movement to protest the mortgage rescue plan and other government bailouts rolls on, with a planned rally Friday in front of

On the heels of a court ruling that shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in the state of Michgian, a new study by the RAND Corporation finds that crime actually goes up when such facilities are closed down.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells Politico that he thinks former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) -- convicted on seven felony counts of failing to

You’d think nothing could top Rudy Giuliani’s noun-verb-9/11ism, but, via Ben Smith, that’s because you don’t pay enough attention to Rep. Peter King

CQ reports that Angela McGlowan, a Fox News contributor and author of BAMBOOZLED: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda, is

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr ) The Supreme Court announced today that its hearings in the lawsuit challenging the new federal health care reform law will begin on March 26 and will last three days. Florida is leading the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a suit that includes 25 other states. State officials have argued that the alleged unconstitutionality of the individual mandate is grounds for striking the bill in its entirety. That argument has not been upheld in lower court decisions

Republicans at the state and national levels are skeptical of why President Barack Obama chose to visit an Iowa metal manufacturing plant today. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said, “the only job the President is interested in saving is his own.” Obama is scheduled to tour Alcoa , a metal plant in the eastern Quad Cities, where he is also expected to talk about job creation and the economy

Yesterday, I blogged on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with The Anchorge Daily News, where she reflected on her time on the campaign trail. There’s an

As the Occupy Wall Street protests spread to cities across Michigan , the web site We Are the 99 Percent is inviting people to publicly share their stories of struggling to get by. In Michigan, the economic collapse caused in good part by Wall Street greed continues to cause suffering for unemployed workers and struggling families, while the top 1% are doing better than any time in history. Our Governor and Lansing politicians just don’t seem to get it.

The conventional wisdom says that if a climate bill fails to pass before the August recess, there’s little chance that it could pass this year, as lawmakers

Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday announced the details of a compromise on education reached with the Republican leadership in both chambers of the state legislature, which he said should help complete the budget by his self-imposed deadline

Federal prosecutors are preparing to charge Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the only designated enemy combatant held on U.S. soil, in a U.S. federal court,

University of Texas System regent Alex Cranberg has several things in common with recently fired UT special adviser Rick O’Donnell: Colorado, Jeff Sandefer’s

While major corporations and utility companies have accommodated themselves to the reality of climate change and the necessity of doing something about it, the

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as