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Lawyers for the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a national conservative Christian legal organization, sent a letter to the Anoka-Hennepin School District this week urging it to maintain its “neutrality policy” on sexual orientation. The letter (PDF) comes in response to a possible lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the National Council for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) , two groups that have accused the district of creating an unsafe environment for LGBT students.

Here’s another measure of how unlikely it is that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) can actually bring along GOP votes for closing Guantanamo Bay if only, only, the

Politico’s Morning Money reports that a proposal penciled -- literally -- into the financial regulatory reform bill in conference committee last night might put

The first week of Rand Paul’s campaign for a U.S. Senate seat from Kentucky has drawn the sort of coverage most first-time candidates wouldn’t dream of.

As oil from the April 20 rig explosion continues to approach the Gulf Coast, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is not backing down from his advocacy of expanded

Sad news: Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) has been diagnosed with stomach cancer and will begin chemotherapy today. The 86-year-old is the second-oldest

Anti-gay rights groups around the country will see a cash infusion over the next two years through a plan called Ignite an Enduring Cultural Transformation.

While the number of Floridians in poverty surpassed 3 million in 2010, the Florida Legislature cut state programs aimed at helping those facing unemployment and poverty, a new report finds. According to a recently released study by the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, “the Florida Legislature cut safety net programs like unemployment compensation and Medicaid designed to cushion Floridians from the worst effects of economic downturns,” as the state’s economic troubles worsened.

As the CPAC conference chugs on in Washington, Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian Party, issued this statement reminding the world that the

President George W. Bush met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday in London to discuss Iran and Afghanistan. Brown proposed freezing the assets of

To build on one aspect of Daphne’s post, there was an interesting debate during the July 7 Senate hearing on military commissions about the degree to which it

Felix Salmon, the economics writer for Reuters , writes a column in the wake of last week’s jobs report in which he says that high unemployment is probably here to stay — and that government can’t do much to change that. It’s always a bit dangerous to try to meld the two surveys which make up the payrolls report, but I’m detecting a trend here: insofar as employers are hiring new people, they’re hiring new entrants into the labor force, rather than people making up the ranks of the unemployed.

In addition to filing frivolous lawsuits in California, Orly Taitz is representing U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, who’s seeking conscientious objector

When the U.S. Supreme Court held in 2010 that it was “cruel and unusual punishment” for a juvenile convicted on a non-homicide offense to receive a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, a large legal question remained unanswered. A Michigan case, allowed to move forward with a single defendant, seems poised to force an answer

In a hilarious exchange between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a group a school kids at the Capitol today, we have this gem: Kid: On a

Ed Brayton’s excellent investigative piece today for TWI’s sister site, The Michigan Messenger, raises a larger issue about how trade agreements often undercut

The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil