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The idea of creating an impermeable high-tech fence that doubles as a panopticon to keep out illegal immigrants has always been the triumph of paranoia over

I just spoke to Kevin Bankston, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior attorney specializing in free speech and privacy law, about his reaction to today’s

Republican officials from twenty-six states and a small business advocacy group asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to strike down the entire 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

David Weigel talks Birtherism with Rachel Maddow. On health care lobbying, Obama isn’t living up to his promise of transparency. Does the GOP really have

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy to Mullah Omar and commander of the Taliban’s military forces, was captured by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence in Karachi

Voters won’t only get the opportunity to elect a new Congress in exactly three weeks -- in 36 states, they’ll also get to decide the fate of 155 ballot

The California-Texas World Series match-up -- decided last night in favor of the San Francisco Giants -- is spilling out into the voting booth, reports the

Sarah Palin is the favored GOP candidate among Republicans, but she’s also the one Americans dislike most. Most people think the bailout happened under

The American people lost today, said Rep. Pete Hoekstra.

The Senate isn’t ’Saturday Night Live,’ says Mitch McConnell. Chuck Grassley worries about scientists looking at porn. An Elvis Presley impersonator --

Actually, J Street knows. The pro-peace/pro-Israel/pro-Palestine Jewish lobby just released a monster of a poll on American Jewish political attitudes. The

A controversial Jacksonville-based abstinence education program whose founder has endorsed the work of Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, a chief proponent of that country’s “Kill the Gays” bill, has declined to reapply for Florida Department of Health funds. # In February, The Florida Independent’s Andy Kopsa broke news about the ties between Ssempa and Project SOS founder Pam Mullarkey, whose organization has received more than $8 million in taxpayer funding since 2001

Sarah Palin expands the English language. The FEC hits Joe Biden with a $219,000 fine for accepting illegal campaign donations. The acting director of

The American Independent reported earlier today on an upcoming Heroic Media fashion show fundraiser hosted by a Dillard’s store in Houston. As the piece

When the final chapter of this election is written in the books that soon will be on sale, I hope we feel shame. Not shame in electing a president. But shame

Pornography magnate Larry Flynt is offering $1 million to anyone with proof of an “illicit” sexual encounter with Texas governor and Republican presidential

Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline claim that the project will be a rich source of jobs, but critics say their numbers don’t add up and any boost in jobs will be temporary.

The former governor of New Mexico, tipped by many libertarians as a national figure who could become the next Ron Paul, is following up his attention-getting

From the White House’s readout of a call between President Obama to President Rene Preval of Haiti: President Obama spoke for roughly thirty minutes with

The anti-GOP activists who used to be called Billionaires for Bush showed up at Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown’s People’s Rally in Worcester,

The ACLU of Colorado Thursday announced it has endorsed the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol. “In Colorado we believe our laws should be practical and they should be fair. Yet we are wasting scarce public resources in our criminal justice system by having police, prosecutors and the courts treat marijuana users like violent criminals

Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning (Pic via dos.state.fl.us) Secretary of State Kurt Browning has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi “to investigate and seek applicable fines” for another teacher who recently got in trouble for breaking a part of the state’s new and controversial elections law, according to the Associated Press. The Daytona Beach News-Journal recently reported that New Smyrna Beach high school teacher Jill Cicciarelli could face legal problems because she preregistered high school students to vote without registering with the state beforehand