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A coalition of business leaders today called for passage of a series of proposals that would provide tax credits for the purchase and production of electric

The economy might still be suffering, but political advertising expenditures -- both by candidates, political parties, and outside groups -- are way up, reports

Carter resigned this fall as Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs at the Pentagon. Carter provided the stock answer that he was leaving for personal and

Tim Pawlenty told ThinkProgress on Saturday that shutting down the federal government is “an option I think Republicans have to consider.” It’s far different rhetoric than what the then-governor offered in 2005 when a budget standoff with the DFL led to the Minnesota’s first and only government shutdown. He said that the shutdown on his watch didn’t have a big impact on the state, but before it happened he warned it’d wreak “havoc” and be “unsettling and unfortunate and inconvenient and problematic” for thousands of Minnesotans. Further, a strategy he now sees as an option for the GOP he characterized as a “cynical political strategy” by the DFL in 2005 — and one that would have effects “far in the future.” Pawlenty spoke with ThinkProgress at the Tea Party Patriots Policy Summit in Arizona on Saturday.

The Florida Presidential Preference Primary Committee’s decision to move the date of that state’s GOP presidential primary to January is a hot topic for conservative media and bloggers. In a piece titled “Florida Republicans for Obama,” The Wall Street Journal comments: Republicans will have a hard time losing the next Presidential election, but they may be up to the job.

The Senate will make a procedural vote today on the defense authorization bill, but how the vote goes will likely have major implications for the DREAM Act

Richard Allen Smith, Afghan war veteran and vice chairman of national soldier and veteran advocacy organization VoteVets , on Thursday hand delivered a petition with more than 9,000 signatures asking Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler to drop the lawsuit he filed seeking to prevent counties in the state from mailing ballots to inactive voters, including to soldiers serving away from home.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he stop sending Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia. Some

Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v

Newt Gingrich says Obama should take the rest of the year off. Kal Penn returns to his White House gig after filming A Very Harold and Kumar

Don’t miss this mammoth USA Today investigation into retired generals and admirals receiving heaps of Pentagon cash for occasional mentoring work to their

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this about Republican attempts to delay a health care vote. When this country belatedly recognized

More details are emerging about those five young Virginia men arrested in Pakistan. According to Pakistani authorities, they may have been arrested at a

In my piece on Rep. Parker Griffith’s party switch, I quoted Huntsville, Ala., Tea Party leader Christie Carden, one of the conservative activists not impressed

“Over the next 20 years, how steep can we make cuts in oil consumption while allowing the economy to flourish and while creating more jobs rather than penalizing individual workers or communities?” asks Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

Just when the Republican Party is skidding along to its lowest level of power since the 1970s, here comes Scott Rasmussen, the only pollster who matters: A new

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Sometime during this hearing, Omar Khadr’s lawyers intend to call as a witness someone identified only as Interrogator #1. Interrogator #1,

Overtly religious backup Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is the fan favorite in Denver these days over laid-back, hybrid-driving, conservation-minded starting quarterback Kyle Orton. And their hardcore Republican boss, Hall of Famer John Elway, will ultimately decide who takes the snaps

In the wake of Public Regulation Commission member Jerome Block Jr.’s resignation, a new report says that the problems afflicting the state regulator go deeper than any one individual.

The longtime CNN anchor has targeted illegal aliens for years now, publicly blaming them for everything from violent crime to failing schools to drug gangs

Sam Stein catches up to the former Attorney General at CPAC: In an interview with the Huffington Post at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the

From Reuters: Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lost a bid on Monday to

Pennsylvania’s proposed school choice bill is being sold as an opportunity for the economically challenged to leave underperforming schools. The plan is