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You might think that that commentary about a deranged lone gunman ought to await the facts, but you’re not going to get a job at Fox News with that attitude.

How badly do lawmakers want to get out of Washington for the scheduled week-long Presidents Day recess? Well, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just

Big corporations have been portrayed as the villains in the story of this year’s explosion in campaign spending, unloading vast sums of money to elect

Carl Paladino, the Tea Party-inspired candidate in New York’s GOP gubernatorial primary, has cut what appears to be the first political ad referencing the

President Barack Obama spoke to the nation on Tuesday night in the annual State of the Union, and while many of those who watched the speech gave it high marks,

“Not everyone can or should have a single-family home, says Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics.

Simon Owens reports on a vigil being held on the White House’s Facebook wall by progressive Afghanistan-war opponents. A message posted by vigil attendees

On the heels of a letter to the Pentagon from human rights groups, the news organizations of four journalists banned from Guantanamo Bay for allegedly violating

The American Spectator’s editorial director reads President Obama’s Cairo speech and grumbles: Six thousand words and the words terror, terrorist, or

As lawmakers continue to weigh in on last night’s health reform speech from President Obama, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House minority whip, went on Good

Enbridge, the company that spilled at least 800,000 gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River system last year, has announced that it is suspending efforts to scrape the remaining submerged oil from the river bottom. UPI reports that the company said it made a “seasonal decision” to stop cleanup for the rest of the year

Ah, the wages of meritocracy and media professionalism. Well-known fake reporter Stephen F. Hayes, author of a ceaseless parade of Saddam Hussein/Al Qaeda

Probably the strangest celebrity of the Tea Parties is Bob Basso, a motivational speaker who started recording YouTube videos as Thomas Paine and was briskly

About 100 protesters gathered in Washington Friday in opposition to Obama’s economic agenda.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is pushing several laws that would impose voter restrictions and limitations, largely targeted at college

Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order today announcing the creation of Western Governors University Texas, a local partnership between WGU, a nonprofit

The Atlantic’s recent story The Next Slum is the kind of piece that gets people talking, as stories about urban life and the growth of suburbs and exurbs tend

Brian Frederick’s debunking of Andrew Malcolm’s claim that the approval gap between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin is shrinking is well done, although Malcolm’s

A burning sugar cane field (Pic by skatoolaki, via Flickr) A bill recently introduced by congressmen from Pennsylvania and Illinois could have a far-reaching impact on the U.S.

The GOP’s 21-page Pledge to America proposal, released today, is mostly silent on energy policy. In fact, the proposal summarizes Republicans’ energy policy

It’s a star-crossed nomination, having run into Senate Republican obstruction, but President Obama thinks he’s found an unobjectionable candidate to helm the

The environmental group Friends of the Earth released more emails between the U.S.