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A poll earlier this year showed that 80 percent of Americans disapproved of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Most people want corporate campaign

Protesters at a Wednesday Minnesotans for a Fair Economy rally outside Wells Fargo’s Minneapolis office donned huge puppet masks showing the faces of U.S.

Last night, the Senate, by unanimous consent, passed a bill approving $600 million in emergency funding to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. After

Social issues might be taking a back seat to health care and the deficit in a number of national races, but not so in California’s Senate race between Sen.

My story about Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs turning on the more extreme members of the right-wing anti-terrorism blogosphere is prompting

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that an Interior Department task force has delivered to him a report that includes 59 recommendations for changes

With countless headlines reminding readers that jobless benefits begin expiring today, it was inevitable that each party would be slinging blame over the

Well, it’s official. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is seeking the ranking spot on the House Natural Resources Committee. If he gets it, he’ll leave his position

The liberal group sends an appeal to its list asking for a fairly small amount of aid to Bill Halter, the lieutenant governor of Arkansas who just entered the

A group of liberal House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would cap credit card rates at 18 percent. This should not to be confused with the push

The vote was 54 to 45 to set the bill aside, with seven Democrats (all men) voting to keep the bill alive, and two Republicans (both women) voting to table the

NEW YORK -- A new survey of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and CBS found that the McCain campaign’s recent negativity and personal attacks on

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced today he plans to bring the DREAM Act to the floor again today so it will be poised and ready to be called as a standalone

Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher is in Washington today through the weekend, having spent the morning at Grover Norquist’s Wednesday breakfast, taken a

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is making some major ad buys, shoring up Democrats facing tight races in a number of states including

Michael Calderone has the story -- next month I’ll be taking my reporting from TWI to The Washington Post. I want to take a moment to point out that the sort of

Over the past 18 months, anyone proposing any policy for extricating the United States from the Iraqi quagmire has been told by critics that the proposal

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It’s not just the filing deadline for unemployment benefits that’s set to arrive at the end of this month. Doctors treating Medicare patients are also scheduled

Foundation for Government Accountability CEO Tarren Bragdon (Pic via floridafga.org) Just months after opening up shop, a Naples-based “free market” public policy group that has so far declined to disclose the source of its funding has already made inroads with state government, and is gearing up to influence Florida’s 2012 legislative session. The Foundation for Government Accountability was incorporated as a nonprofit on June 27, 2011. According to the organization’s website , the group’s goal is to “develop and promote free market public policies that achieve limited, constitutional government and a robust economy that will be an engine for job creation across the state.” The IRS lists the Foundation as a “public charity with a 50 percent deductibility limitation.” The man behind this new right-leaning public policy advocacy group: Tarren Bragdon.

They told my husband, ’You’ve got a job to do and you’re going to do it,’ said the wife of one Massey miner, referring to funerals he’s missed for friends who died in the blast.