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The Tea Party movement seems to have quieted down as Republicans found a more grippable political issue with Guantanamo Bay. Nonetheless, motivational speaker

Companies see Massey getting away with things, so they start doing those things themselves, said environmental activist Maria Gunnoe.

Sarah Palin may think an Iran sanctions package is off the Obama administration’s agenda, but -- quelle surprise -- it appears that the opposite is occurring.

Anti-war activists who threw a pie at Sen. Carl Levin during a Big Rapids event in 2010 have been sentenced to 30 days in federal prison

An updated forecast by the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows that net farm income for 2011 will reach $103.6 billion, up $24.5 billion from 2010. All three measures of farm sector earnings (net farm income, net cash income, and net value added) are forecast to rise more than 20 percent in 2011. Net farm income, according to ERS, reflects income from production in the current year, whether or not sold within the calendar year, and is a measure of the increase in wealth from production.

This is the danger of relying too much on preliminary documents in a town where nothing’s final ’til it’s final. As the official summary of the compromise

Pic by Smithers7, via Wikimedia Commons A report released earlier this month by the NAACP found that Florida is among the states with the “most restrictive” felon disenfranchisement “laws in the country” — one of many aspects of the state’s voting practices that will limit voter participation among minorities, according to the group.

Yes, already. Cityview, a Des Moines alt-weekly, talks to Hawkeye State Republicans about the prospects for 2012 GOP candidates. Former Mitt Romney state

The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs -- a lot of it directed at Chairman

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday to force the Obama administration to make a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1

Via Matt Yglesias, the latest Gallup poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support more deficit-increasing stimulus to create new jobs and jump-start the

As the very, very small chance of a late upset vanishes in NY-23, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is lashing out and accusing ACORN, the unions and

The CIA has been saying it briefed the leadership of the Congressional intelligence committees in 2002 about the enhanced interrogation techniques used on

Private for-profit prison companies spend millions of dollars every year lobbying at the local, state and federal levels for stricter immigration laws and enforcement. The largest such company, Corrections Corporation of America, spent more than $18 million on such activities between 1999 and 2009, reports Fox News. The company is even involved in writing immigration legislation which legislators can then introduce into state legislatures

If there was one single campaign action or movement from the past two weeks that could be drawn out and held up as brilliant, most of our panelists believe it is a tiny tag line implemented by U.S. Rep

There is a thing called thoughtful skepticism, but this release from the Republican Study Committee, condemning the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions

A GOP congressman calls it quits, but Dems still have more to lose from their retirements. Romer says the stimulus is (partly) to thank for today’s good

Dana Goldstein reports on the negotiations behind the anti-abortion rights ad that Focus on the Family bought during the Super Bowl on CBS. Quietly, the network

Spencer Ackerman has an interesting read up this morning on a forthcoming handbook meant to help Washington policy-makers decide whether to intervene in the

Much of the reason our economy is a mess is due to the housing bubble, a period in which too many homes were built -- and too many people bought homes they

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) went forward with a resolution calling for an end to the Afghanistan war yesterday. Predictably, it earned massive and bipartisan

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