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I’ve been keeping an eye on an idea that seemed to be gaining traction a week ago: suspending the payroll tax to stimulate the economy. The latest entries, from

The Iowa Independent reports that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) today echoed Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments that yesterday’s

Last-ditch efforts to provide more protection for women in the six abortion-restriction bills discussed today during House floor action failed yesterday. # About a dozen amendments were introduced by Democratic representatives yesterday.

In fairness, this was a rapidly issued apology (near-apology?) by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. Here’s the statement in full, which I received 20 minutes

Finally, a sovereignty question! I was starting to think the GOP wasn’t what it used to be. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is concerned about American sovereignty at

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday and talked about the implications of Congress’ cave to the banks on his mortgage cramdown

Party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) is getting whacked again for his life-long record of supporting Democrats, this time from Tea Party-backed

One of my friends in the small community of Obama birther-debunkers passes on quite the discovery: a 1964 certified copy of registration of birth from

TOLEDO, Ohio -- The McCain camp has pushed back hard on the notion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is operating independently from the senator’s campaign -- or, in

Benton Harbor Emergency Manager Joe Harris said last night that 90 percent of the local citizens believe that he is the “angel of common sense” though he acknowledged that no poll has been taken. Earlier this month Harris used new powers granted under Public Act 4 — the Emergency Manager law — to remove all decision making power from Benton Harbor’s elected officials.

Reuters notes that Wall Street types are complaining that coverage of the current foreclosure crisis -- in which banks might have taken houses away from

Well, we knew things were bad for newspapers these days, but this is a really sad sign: The Philadelphia Inquirer has hired John Yoo -- the notorious former

Yesterday’s Pentagon briefing featured a telling exchange about Iraq between a reporter (whom I think was McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef) and spokesman Geoff

Immigration Policy Center released a study today contending that new Americans, defined as recent naturalized citizens and U.S.-born children of immigrants

Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam (Pic via Facebook) Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam told state citrus industry leaders Monday that Florida GOP elected officials should be credited for not passing the “mistaken” state immigration laws now in place in Georgia and Alabama. The Ledger reports that Putnam spoke at the 78th annual meeting of Citrus World Inc

As workers around the world participate in May Day celebrations of the labor movement’s past achievements, Paul Demko of TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota

Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly has a nice commentary on Alberto Gonzales and his recent lament that he’s one of the many casualties of the war on

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez acknowledged that her grandparents came to the U.S. without documents in an interview with Univision Albuquerque affiliate KLUZ-TV.

Iowa Senate Democrats have agreed to 50 items within the House Republicans’ omnibus budget bill, Democrat leaders said today, primarily Republicans’ desires for a two-year budget and a $5.99 billion spending cap. Most of the items Democrats have agreed to — or “accepted,” as Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) characterized it — are within education and health and human services. One such comprise is that the universal preschool program will see no change in allowable growth in their budgets for the coming fiscal year.