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Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an

Title XIV of H.R. 5136, the House bill authorizing next year’s Defense Department money, doesn’t look like it carries a major legacy item for President Obama.

Political pop quiz: What could be more important in this race than that combative, buzz-driving VP debate? Well, the new job loss figures are in. For the

While the McCain campaign’s attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers will likely dominate today’s news cycle, the Wall

It would be premature to label Colorado’s Fourth District one of the nation’s swing districts, but that could change as a result of the 2012 election season. A court will decide the new outline of the district next month but the district is undergoing a more profound transition. It is becoming the thing Iowa is supposed to be: A moderately conservative middle-American political testing ground, where unaffiliated independents make up roughly a third of the voters, where the aging still-mostly-white population is increasingly ethnically mixed and where high-tech and R&D industries are replacing manufacturing and farming as the main drivers of the economy.

The Washington Post reports that its most recent joint poll with ABC News found that nearly two-thirds of respondents support a combination of raising taxes and

A few years ago, a pal of mine named Malcolm Nance testified to a congressional panel about how he was waterboarded. Nance used to instruct Naval Special Forces

In a few moments, the Senate will hold a procedural vote setting the stage for final passage of legislation extending unemployment insurance benefits. Leading

Building a Better Ohio – a right-leaning group supporting Senate Bill 5 and Issue 2 – is out with a new campaign ad featuring Kyle Farmer, a teacher in the Liberty-Union Thurston School District. What the ad doesn’t disclose is that Farmer is also chair of the Fairfield County Republican Party, who describes himself on Twitter as a wannabe political operative.

James Blunt might have prevented World War III. Facebook kills Gmail (maybe) with a new email service. John McCain finds a new reason to oppose repealing

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Gov

Not even rainy weather could stop Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) from enjoying an hour-long ceremony that concluded with the signing of H.202, a law that creates a

The Senate today voted to confirm Thomas E. Perez to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. The

When I talked to Andrew Breitbart for today’s story on the British press, the man behind Big Hollywood talked at length at how, in his view, political liberals

The reconciliation fix addresses issues ranging from funding mechanisms to Medicaid rates.

I don’t have the actual document yet, but here’s the White House’s just-released summary of the executive order on interrogations. Executive Order revokes

The Treasury Department’s report on the progress -- or lack of it -- among servicers doing loan modifications makes it seem like the Obama administration is

The news on Friday that Blackwater Worldwide (now known as Xe Services) participated in clandestine CIA operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that included

Ah, Alberto Gonzales. After the then-Attorney General presented a slippery account to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2007 of, among other subjects, the

Nathan Hodge, in Afghanistan for Danger Room, reported last week that U.S. officials in Kabul don’t like to refer to the planned near-doubling of civilian

Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit: Today in Washington, some are promising that