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Media accounts by Salon.com and other outlets tied the perpetrator of the Mary Landrieu phone sting to racist groups and Big Government founder Andrew Breitbart. Seven hours after the Salon story went up, Breitbart went to war.

Last Tuesday, David Norvell, the board chair of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board, which oversees the integrity of gaming regulations at licensed racetracks and monitors tribal gaming activity in the state, told lawmakers at a meeting of the Legislative Finance Committee that various Native American tribes owe the state about $15 million in casino revenue.

A year ago, Pajamas TV was taking some licks for hiring Joe the Plumber to do reporting in Israel and, later, in Washington. But the web-based video network was

James O’Keefe himself tweeted out a link to the AP news: Conservative activist, 3 others have charges reduced in phone caper at La. senator’s office. That

Environmentalists have never been too keen about President Obama’s support for nuclear power and natural gas. But those positions got less attention amid the

TIME Magazine has deemed Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards one of this year’s 100 most influential people in the world.

A recently released convict describes how the foreclosure crisis changed the economy in prison: lack market prices were suddenly going through the roof. The

Proposed reforms to Texas universities have sparked criticism from a Republican party bigwig, who also is one of the University of Texas’ largest donors, as

Earlier this week, Legistorm discovered that the House Clerk’s Office had posted lawmakers’ latest financial disclosure forms -- scheduled for release Friday --

Michigan assesses severance tax when companies remove natural gas and oil and some state officials say operators of high-grade metallic mines should also be charged for removing minerals from the ground.

I raised that question on Monday, talking with conservative health experts who think Republicans are fooling themselves if they think they’ll be able to roll

Tonight, a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed failed in the Senate, 58 to 38. The vote was technically only one

Depending on what side of the political fence you sit on, Van Jones is either a savior or a demon, a visionary or a left-wing radical tied to communism and

Democratic candidate Martha Coakley’s Senate campaign in Massachusetts has given up every news cycle this week to a self-inflicted blunder -- a fact the

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who promised in February to scrutinize the Obama budget proposal “line by line” for any potential cuts, gave his staff some

The Los Angeles Times earns your readership this morning by running a great piece digging into differing cost estimates between the White House and the Pentagon

The Federal Communicatons Commission on Tuesday approved Comcast’s bid to take a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal. The deal was approved with a series of

Going to court may be “the best way” to resolve a dispute over water rights between the U.S. Forest Service and the National Ski Areas Association, according to a former Forest Service ski area permit coordinator.

There are a few telling details about yesterday’s rally against the House’s health care reform bill that got lost in the coverage. The rally was not planned by

On a conference call with reporters Thursday, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine said he would look forward to a midterm election battle centered on the repeal of this