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This afternoon, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough got into a spat on Twitter with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald. The blogger fired first, making a frustrated point about the

As of yesterday, the pro-choice political action committee Emily’s List has started gearing up for the 2012 election by putting five GOP freshman “on notice.” On the list: Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale

People are fed up, said Saranac Lake activist Russ Finley. The Tea Party people are serious. The 9/12 people are serious. I’d hate to say that a loss is a good thing, but this is a good thing.

From a post put quietly on Hoekstra’s campaign Website this morning: We would like to let you personally know that we have decided that this past election will

In an interview with The Washington Independent, Sierra Club Deputy National Campaign Director Melinda Pierce said prospects for passage of significant energy

Good catch by Paul Bedard, from a town hall meeting where first-term conservative Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) was asked if he’d support Rep. Nancy Pelosi

The recent Supreme Court decision upholding the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act, which penalizes employers that knowingly hire undocumented workers by revoking

At noon, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce the fate of a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, near Cape Cod -- and The Boston Globe is

The paranoid, mysterious Judson Phillips in the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention gave way to the real, jovial Phillips this weekend.

The smart take among liberal and Democratic strategists is that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is making an empty threat to filibuster his party’s health care

“The longer you remain unemployed, the tougher it is to get a job,” one expert said. “Your skills atrophy. Employers -- rightly or wrongly -- take that as a signal that you’re damaged goods.”

And now we know why the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission decided to subpoena Goldman Sachs -- not for a lack of information, but for a surfeit of it. CNBC’s

The GOP congresswoman from Minnesota is starting a new push against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) tomorrow by inviting Anita

The New York Times reports on a radio interview with U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnson: Mr. Johnson said Mr. Abdulmutallab’s application to renew his student

Admiral William Fallon, the bulwark between Bush and a war with Iran, is resigning as head of U.S. Central Command. According to the tidbit I just saw on CNN,

There wasn’t a great deal of fanfare last week when U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley released a three-year-long committee staff review of the financial activities of several media-based ministries and churches, but that is likely because the paper offers no concrete steps forward.

A picture is emerging of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who murdered seven CIA agents and Blackwater contractors in Khost Province

While everyone’s railing about the incredibly nasty speech by former Vice President Dick Cheney this morning -- who takes credit for preventing terrorist

Outgoing Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) met with reporters today just a few hours after the news leaked that the 18-year House veteran had decided to hang up his

In the end a slight majority of Republicans opposed levying a 90 percent tax on bonuses for companies that take TARP money — another signal of how complicated

Can it really be that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn’t have any supporters on Twitter using either the #iran or #iranelections hashtags? Challenger

An Arizona company, sued in June by Attorney General Tom Miller , has been barred from all future telemarketing and mail solicitations in Iowa because it used falsehoods about raising money for those with disabilities to elicit funds from state residents. District Court Judge Brad McCall earlier ordered Phoenix-based Americans with Disabilities, L.L.C., a for-profit company, and its owner, Dale R. Sieck, from future telephone and mail solicitations to Iowa consumers

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