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Rep. Michele Bachmann told radio host Mark Levin on Friday evening that in facing protests by labor supporters Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans are like President Abraham Lincoln, who fought the Confederacy, and President Reagan, who contended with the Soviet Union

Byron York’s report on Republican frustration with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is as juicy as it could be without actually naming any

Responding to a Florida Independent story revealing ties between Project SOS , a federally funded Jacksonville abstinence education program, and Martin Ssempa, a controversial Ugandan pastor who supports a law in that country that prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality, program founder Pam Mullarkey says she wants to “dissociate and distance” herself from “allegations” about Ssempa made by “the US media.” # Mullarkey contacted the Independent via email with this statement: # While I don’t believe the allegations made about Pr. Ssempa, and he has categorically denied them, I wish to dissociate and distance myself from the allegations of genocide, violence against gays which are attributed to Dr.

Updated at 5:08 p.m. In the tide of abortion-related legislation sweeping the nation, among the popular proposals is to mandate counseling services for women

In a major turnaround for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, she told ABC News, in an interview that aired last night, that she doesn’t disagree with scientists who say

With major gay rights victories in Iowa and Vermont in recent days, the movement seem to be on the upswing in much of the country. Arizona, however, is another

With the DISCLOSE Act still stalled in the Senate, President Obama took the opportunity on Saturday to scold the GOP leadership for its recalcitrance in working

The Watchdog Institute, a nonprofit reporting center based out of San Diego State University, has released a report showing connections between a committee in

Cory Barnardi, a Liberal Party senator from South Australia, is in Washington for meetings with some stateside conservative groups. (The Liberal Party in that

One reason that Republicans are happy to have recruited Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) to run against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) -- the odds of a primary win by

Mother Jones is running a series of infographics in its most recent issue that follow income trends in the U.S. Among other findings, they show that the top .01

A chief criticism of the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, enacted in February, was that too large a portion went to tax cuts in lieu of spending. Critics,

This evening, 57 senators said they supported the jobs bill, also known as the extenders package or H.R. 4213, which would extend unemployment benefits and

So now the U.S. and Iraq have signed the Status of Forces Agreement that gets the U.S. out of Iraqi cities in 2009; out of Iraq entirely in Dec. 2011; and

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision represented a major change to campaign finance law. I’ve been tracking the story of how some corporations (both

Two must-read pieces on the RNC and Michael Steele today from Reid Wilson and Ralph Hallow, the best reporters on that beat. Wilson reports on a tense

It’s official -- David Axelrod, one of the masterminds behind President-elect Barack Obama’s White House bid, is taking a huge pay cut to come to Washington.

Today, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their financial disclosure forms from 2009. In them, you can learn that Obama made $1

A new poll indicates that only a third of likely U.S. voters think the U.S

Republicans have made it clear that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder is the most problematic of President-elect Barack Obama cabinet nominees. Sen. Arlen

In November, I pointed out that the irregular warfare-heavy think tank known as the Center for a New American Security was basically President Obama’s shadow

Coal production in the United States dropped by 8.5 percent in 2009 compared to 2008, the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy