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Obviously I don’t have any stake in the reputation-destruction fight going on in Politico between Bill Kristol and ex-McCain campaign foreign policy adviser

Today’s the big day for Arizona immigration law SB 1070: The Ninth Circuit Court of appeals will hear debate over the law today, with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

The tradition of wait, what did they ask? questions in Fox News polls continues with this one from the network’s Oct. 29 survey. I tried to

So President Bush took on the enormous task of explaining the financial crisis to Americans in simple, clear terms last night - and singled out Fannie Mae and

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised last week that he would try to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented young people to

The Natural Resources Defense Council says that last weekend’s leak of 42,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River, along with more than 800,000 gallons spilled into the Kalamazoo River last year and a rash of pipeline leaks along the Keystone I pipeline, should convince the State Department to nix the Keystone XL pipeline. As we saw from the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf, toxins in the oil can take a lethal toll on aquatic life of all kinds. Exposure to these toxins can also cause genetic damage, liver disease, cancer and harm to reproductive and immune systems

Speaking at the Center for a New American Security’s annual Washington policy conference, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy (and CNAS

This afternoon, health advocates and Medicaid recipients are protesting the state’s plan to privatize Medicaid in front of WellCare’s corporate headquarters in Tampa. WellCare is one of the insurance companies that could receive Medicaid recipients and taxpayer funds if the federal government approves Florida’s plans. The protest is being led by Florida PIRG , a public interest group in the state that also released a report (.pdf) today that criticizes the state’s plans to expand the Medicaid Reform Pilot statewide.

So now that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is the de facto Republican candidate in NY-23, what happens? Local Republican parties in the district,

The eighty-eight applicants to officially declare their interest for Jerome Block Jr.’s vacated District 3 commissioner of the Public Regulation Commission, seat include: an American Telepsychiatrists sales representative, the owner of a Santa Fe optical store, a substitute teacher, a musician, a rancher, a stay-at-home dad, a solar-power products designer, a graphic designer of a free monthly newspaper, an insurance agent, a resort director and an equipment maintenance technician at Intel. Fred Nathan and Jason Espinoza, directors at Think New Mexico, a think tank that released an influential assessment of the PRC one week ago, say they have never heard of most of the candidates.

As the presidential campaign draws to a close, election reformers, best known for battling GOP-led vote suppression efforts, are tuning out any talk of a Sen.

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Outside of the Collingwood Library and Museum, a stately home a few miles down the highway from Washington, D.C. -- and a few miles north of

Over the weekend, residents of Southwest Ranches — a town in western Broward County — protested the proposed construction of a privately run immigration detention center. # Southwest Ranches has partnered with the private prison firm Corrections Corporation of America — which manages approximately 75,000 inmates in more than 60 facilities in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

From the DCCC’s Jennifer Crider, blasting the NRCC for tweeting a Downfall parody video of Adolf Hitler making common cause with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

As the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation takes up pipeline safety legislation today, watchdog groups say that the measure contains good

Just out of the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) comes news that the cost of the health reform bill the Senate Finance Committee chairman is working on has

Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers have reached an agreement on a new contract that includes significant signing bonuses and more jobs for autoworkers.

So when the Obama administration announced on Friday that it was going to come up with benchmarks to judge the success or failure of its Af-Pak strategy but was

Today, Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on Too Big to Fail banks and the general

The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reports that the U.S. military command in Afghanistan is considering hiring private security contractors to post as guards

Louis Schimmel, a former state-appointed receiver for the city of Ecorse and one time Emergency Manager of Hamtramck, now working as executive administrator in Warren, has been tapped by state officials to take over as Emergency Manager in Pontiac. The Detroit News reports: Schimmel will replace Michael Stampfler, who in August called for $15 million in possible new taxes and a reduction in city services — including cutting 10 newly contracted Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies. Stampfler has been at odds with city officials and residents over some of his proposals.

Though Rep. Vern Buchanan has yet to publicly comment on a watchdog group’s efforts to launch an FBI investigation into his past congressional campaigns, he has found time to sell his $4.49 million yacht, The Entrepreneur . The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is now using that yacht sale to highlight the allegations surrounding the Florida congressman