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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

Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), under fire for seemingly promising to intervene in a Justice Department probe and caught on a wiretap -- Harman denies all

Peter Roff, an influential, under-the-radar conservative pundit, has made the most put-together argument I’ve seen for something you’ll hear more conservatives

The recent news that China dumped $34.2 billion in U.S. Treasuries in December hardly made a splash, but L.A. Times writer Don Lee wondered what China did with

Jonah Goldberg steps back from the Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s memoir conspiracy after catching an Oct. 3 writeup of an Ayers speech. It appeared in National

Colorado and national environmental groups today were sharply critical of congressional plans to accelerate a White House decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline as part of a deal to extend payroll tax relief and unemployment benefits. The Sand Hills area of Nebraska

So later today I’ll have a piece up about Obama’s relationship with the military and the challenges and opportunities it presents. But, like R. Kelly, I want to

The hosts of Fox News’ morning show Fox and Friends (More fun than a spinal tap since 1999!) just emceed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

In a press conference that can be described only as solid-gold entertainment, former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris accepted disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s

Except for the few times she raised her hands to applaud, Sheila Reiland of Iowa City sat quietly — hands at her sides, feet flat on the floor, her back against a school lunch table. For more than an hour and a half she watched and listened as four men, all hoping to be president, and a handful of eastern Iowa Republican Party leaders took their turn at the microphone

The goings-on of red state Republican officials aren’t usually national news, but this story from Boise is a fitting postscript to a week that started with

A Washington, D.C.,-based government watchdog is calling for the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the American Future Fund (AFF) has violated tax law. In a letter to the IRS asking for an investigation , Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) says AFF is registered as a 501c4 nonprofit, which means it doesn’t have to disclose its donors so long as engaging in political campaign activity is not its primary purpose.

The old Florida capitol (Pic by Diligent Terrier, via Wikimedia Commons) State Rep. Matt Caldwell, R-Fort Meyers, and Sen

Schumer pushes an opt-out public option. The White House battles the press. Democrats are divided over the Patriot Act renewal. Check out these photos

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

The Supreme Court rules suspects must explicitly say they want to remain silent in order to invoke Miranda protections. Alabama Democrats could nominate

How’s this for a stimulus plan? A trio of senators introduced legislation today allowing owners of gas-guzzlers to trade their vehicles in for thousands of

At this time in 2009, Charlie Crist was trouncing Marco Rubio in the polls and on the fundraising circuit. Over the months that followed, Rubio built up momentum and ultimately ran Crist out of the Republican primary

Last week, Politico’s Ben Smith reported that sources within Sarah Palin’s camp had told him that, if she elects to vie for the 2012 Republican presidential

Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning (Pic via dos.state.fl.us) A U.S. District Court has denied a request by the state of for an expedited hearing on whether Florida is adhering to the Voting Rights in the five counties requiring federal preclearance.

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