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It’s safe to say that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin far exceeded the extremely low expectations that most people had for her going into Thursday’s debate. She made

If you can’t get enough of Andrew Restuccia’s coverage of the Gulf oil spill and claims process, check out these recent radio appearances to hear more of his

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) hand-delivered a letter to President Barack Obama today requesting 1,000 additional troops to the Texas-Mexico border. Obama deployed

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared on Capitol Hill this morning, testifying for the first time before the congressional oversight panel created to monitor

Congressional Republicans have, for months, insisted that they’re interested in a bipartisan compromise on health reform this year. It’s the Democrats, they

Moments ago, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to freeze credit card rates on existing balances through the holiday season. The bill, sponsored

A U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan’s Herat Province yesterday killed an insurgent leader named Ghulam Yahya Akbari. Today, the U.S. military command in Afghanistan

Via Felix Salmon, Paul Kedrosky has a terrifying housing chart, showing the number of vacant U.S. houses. The stock of empty U.S. homes is now bigger than the

In his first public remarks after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, President Obama reiterated a number of expected

Politico has the details of the ongoing meetings between environmentalists and electric utilities. And the prospects for a compromise don’t look good. So far,

A new study out today from the University of North Carolina Center for Community Capital provides more evidence that deregulatory zealots have a lot to answer

It turns out residents of Mattoon, Ill., aren’t too happy with the Department of Energy’s plans to can the embattled FutureGen project and replace it with a

The Anti-Defamation League is out with a statement shaming Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for bringing Nazi and Hitler comparisons into the debate on

It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t all that long ago when it could be hard to find average folks who knew or cared that much about Fannie Mae and Freddie

A report by Physicians for Human Rights released on Monday claims that U.S. physicians and psychologists betrayed ethical standards by collecting data on

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released its annual report on the “most corrupt” members of Congress

Recent polls sponsored by the Club for Growth and the Minuteman PAC, which show Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the three-way

The final Hays Research Poll on former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) finds her popularity with Alaskans tumbling just into negative territory; 48 percent of

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) used the Senate debate over the defense appropriations bill to urge President Obama to soon explain to the American

The Iraqi north is a place where the war hasn’t stopped, and may not even have started in earnest, as Arabs, Kurds and other minorities compete for land and oil

Senate Democrats yesterday unveiled an energy reform proposal that would eliminate roughly $17 billion in federal subsidies to the nation’s largest oil

Democrats and Republicans are on the House floor debating the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Kate Sheppard, the great climate reporter for Grist, is

After announcing that he would not mount a campaign against Sen. Debbie Stabenow earlier this year, former U.S.