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In the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a panel of foreign policy experts hosted by the New America Foundation shared thoughts on

Iowa Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley Wednesday admonished his Republican congressional colleagues’ support of the payroll tax increase, which Braley says will be a gut-punch to low-income and middle class families. “What’s so hypocritical about Republicans’ position on the payroll tax increase that they are proposing is that it is an enormous impact by hitting the middle class and working poor,” Braley said during a conference call with press.

In the wake of his conviction in U.S. District Court Thursday, Colorado Ethics Watch is calling on Adams County Sheriff Doug Darr to resign.

The real mystery is why it took so long for someone to buy the audiobook of Bill O’Reilly’s novel Those Who Trespass and turn the most sexually explicit clips

Michael Steele and Ken Blackwell just conferred in the hallway outside the main room, with Steele doing most of the talking. Steele tried to brush aside the

Federally sponsored single-payer health care might be off the table as Congress debates its health reform strategy this summer, but if some House lawmakers get

Obama says Republicans want to bamboozle you. Surprisingly, Alvin Greene might not win his Senate race. Scientists are using stimulus dollars to buy

Oil giant Exxon Mobil spent less money on lobbying in the second quarter (April to June) of this year than it did during the same period last year, despite

The visa system has one fatal flaw, according to tech industry leaders: It provides too many visas for family reunification and not enough for highly educated

KDKA of Pittsburgh reports that according to local police, the McCain worker who claimed to have been attacked for her political convictions just confessed to

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says that two recent Second Amendment cases are now settled law and that she will follow them if she is confirmed as a

There’s a big coordinated attack underway in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, far from the tribal areas where the Pakistani military is about to launch

In an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper of ABC News, Lakhdar Boumediene said he was tortured while wrongly imprisoned for seven and a half years at

The House oversight committee has spent the day unloading on Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld -- his $480 million in compensation over the past eight years, his

It’s not just the government that’s considering bailing out the auto industry. Several utilities executives are considering ordering thousands of plug-in

A New Zealand landfill (Pic by Samuel Mann, via Flickr) After months of opposition on the part of both lawmakers and area residents, the review of a controversial landfill permit in Pasco County has been delayed. A 2009 landfill permit request from Angelo’s Aggregate Materials was rejected by the state Department of Environmental Protection amid fears that the landfill could lead to sinkholes and cause harm to the nearby environmentally sensitive Green Swamp. In recent months (following the appointment of new Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Herschel Vinyard), the permit was revived , and signs seemed to point to approval by the state

“‘I have the experience, the seniority, I’ve delivered for the state.’ There are nine out of ten elections in which that works. There’s one election in which it wont,” says G. Terry Madonna of Franklin and Marshall College.

The Home Affordable Modification Program -- designed to reduce homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments and to keep them in their homes -- has been an abysmal

Nate Silver of the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight graphed the potential 2012 presidential contenders based on their insider/outsider status and their position on a moderate-to-conservative scale. Not surprisingly, Rep. Michele Bachmann took the conservative extreme.

CQ Politics has a piece today that anyone actually interested in what the health care debate is (and isn’t) about ought to look at. It looks at the wildly