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National Security Agency whistleblower Russ Tice took to MSNBC’s Countdown yesterday to talk about Bush administration surveillance policies that, like many

News of former Minnesota Gov.

Iowa partisans are going about the business of recruiting or nominating candidates for a special election in Iowa Senate District 18, but what’s at stake goes far beyond the boundaries of the small region in eastern Iowa. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad announced last week that he was appointing Sen.

Something for the What in the World? file: Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a

As we mentioned earlier, the recent swine flu outbreak is causing some liberals to go back to the stimulus debate of earlier this year to point out that the

While the nation is distracted by wondering about the status of Colt McCoy’s shoulder, the Pentagon emailed out the following statement from spokesman Geoff

Appearing in Minnesota yesterday, President Obama was asked about legalizing medical marijuana. His answer was beyond vague and not entirely supportive

Toward the end of Thursday’s House debate on credit card reform -- legislation that passed with broad bipartisan support -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) took to

Newly released Census data reveal that, as other evidence suggests, the recession has battered some areas harder than others. Census Bureau statistics show that

Though none qualify as the “one percent,” at least three of Minnesota’s members of Congress are millionaires, a study by the Center for Responsive Politics released on Tuesday shows . The study averaged the net worth of each member

Earlier this week, I wrote about how the economic crisis had led record-high numbers of Americans to dismiss the threat of global warming. Now Gallup has a

The governor of Alaska was riding a wave of national recognition at the start of this year, stemming from her 2008 vice presidential campaign, and supporters

Here’s the highlight reel from soon-to-be-retired Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry’s opening statement during his confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s new radio ad parodies the catastrophic decision of GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava’s husband to call the cops on The

For anyone who’s heard about the controversy over renegade Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who parades undocumented immigrants in pink underwear and houses them in

Via The New Yorker’s twitter feed, North Korea, fresh from an unprovoked naval attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors, accuses South Korean President Lee

No alarms and no surprises here -- I reported that she was a sure thing in February -- but after long long long delay, the State Department finally has Judith

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has appointed a team of 63 practicing attorneys, judges and law professors to serve on a justice advisory committee for his campaign, staff announced in a release Tuesday. The committee is expected to “draw on their experience in all three branches of government, private practice, industry, and academia to advise Governor Romney in his campaign for the presidency,” the campaign release said, adding the 63-person board will specifically “advise on the Constitution, judicial matters, law enforcement, homeland security, and regulatory issues” and provide legal counsel for Romney’s campaign when needed.

Once again, Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey has announced that he will not be enforcing the law. Taking another “let-bygones-be-bygones” approach, he told the

Abandoned and vacant homes rapidly piling up in neighborhoods around the country serve as symbols of the secondary damage caused by the foreclosure crisis -- a catastrophe felt on the ground but still unseen by Washington.

One day after The American Independent released an analysis of the National Organization for Marriage’s recently reported finances from 2010, which reveal

The Pitkin County commissioners have rekindled the idea of taking a much tougher regulatory stance on natural gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area west of Carbondale, according to the Aspen Times .