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A poll released by Elon University on Friday shows a majority of North Carolinians oppose a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The

... but that won’t stop me from sharing my Washington voting experience, and a few photos, with you. I cast my ballot this morning in the Petworth

The Wright-Obama drama this week is more universal than racial, writes law professor and friend-of-the-site David Troutt. From Roman mythology to the Old

A new field manual, based on lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, seeks to move the military away from its traditional role of fighting a hostile state’s forces to stabilizing weak governments. But can the service accept a subordinate role?

Opponents of the Kennecott nickel sulfide mine under development west of Marquette are asking Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate the process by which state regulators permitted the mine. Conservationist Laura Gauger and mining engineer Jack Parker say that the Michigan Dept

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown’s Obama oil spill criticisms are unlikely to rehab his post-Katrina image. Energy interests along the Gulf Coast will

Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the independent federal agency headed by Sheila Bair that regulates banks and insures deposits, announced it

It’s been almost exactly 18 months since Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter, filed a lawsuit demanding that his state keep

That’s the apparently sincere wish of Larry Kudlow: With so many weak-kneed leaders in business and politics today, Gregg has just provided an incredibly

Comedy Central host and super PAC architect Stephen Colbert considered Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the “embarrassment… of riches” that makes up the

In times of economic downturn, young people often bemoan their job prospects: The ranks of the unemployed swell with people slightly older, more experienced and

The Associated Press reports: The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama’s

Bowling Green, Ohio We’ve just wrapped up the second Palin campaign event of the day, a Victory in Ohio rally whose highlight -- aside from the rather

A statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (aka E-FORCSE) will finally go live on Thursday. For supporters of the program, its implementation has been a long time coming, but is welcome in a state where prescription drug abuse has reached near-epidemic proportions . # Starting Thurs., Sept

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is focused on Iowa in her campaign for the GOP nomination, her campaign spokeswoman told NBC, a strategy that may have led to all of the campaign’s New Hampshire staff quitting this weekend

At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Florida, a gay soldier serving in Iraq was booed by the audience because he asked a question about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. None of the candidates on stage came to his defense. After the debate, many moderate Republicans spoke out against the audience’s behavior including Minnesota Republican Rep.

A Taliban operative driving a car bomb attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital today, killing at least six U.S. and allied troops and at least 12 Afghan

The Leahy-Feinstein substitute bill I discussed in my piece this morning about the USA PATRIOT Act was just approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 13-8,

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, has a new Spanish-language ad touting her opposition to the Arizona law, SB 1070, and

Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*. In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and,