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Mortgage lenders aren’t selling subprime loans much anymore, but apparently the credit rating agencies that certified them as safe and profitable investments

That’s what I asked Joshua Dratel, Chair of the John Adams Project Advisory Committee and a prominent defense lawyer who has represented numerous terror

The Washington Post’s headline -- McChrystal: More Forces Or ’Mission Failure’ -- does what the persons who leaked Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan

According to a Pentagon fact sheet on the now-scrapped plans for a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, Defense Secretary Bob Gates and the Joint

The House might create a new border security bill to address jurisdictional issues over the $600 million border security bill passed by the Senate last week,

Want a rundown on all the incidents of voter fraud and voter intimidation that have been reported thus far today? The New Republic’s Eliza Gray has set up shop

First it was Byron Dorgan; now Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) has decided to throw in the towel: Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the embattled Connecticut Democrat who

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) A women’s health advocacy group plans to reopen a legal fight to challenge the federal government’s decision to overrule a request from the FDA to expand access to the morning after pill, also called Plan B, to women under the age of 17. Since U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her decision , reproductive health advocates have expressed disappointment and claim that the decision was based on political calculations, and not on scientific research

The Florida Department of Children and Families testified before a state House committee Tuesday about the implementation of new drug screening requirements placed on Temporary Assistance for Need Families (aka TANF) applicants. So far, the department reports that about 2.7 percent of temporary assistance applicants were denied because they tested positive for illegal drug use. Pete Digre, who briefed the committee on behalf of the department, said that “very, very few people are testing positive.” Digre told the committee that one of the more interesting numbers the department has seen so far was the 563 applicants who started an application but failed to “show up” for the drug test. Some members of the committee alluded to the possibility that this meant the law was deterring drug users from applying for cash assistance

Via Dave Weigel, FreedomWorks (which he terms the most media-savvy of the Tea Party groups) is stepping up its own efforts to pressure Republican senators to

Last week I urged people to watch Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Reps. David Obey (D-Wis.) and Jack Murtha (D-Pa) for barometric

The Washington Post has an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder in which Holder, for the first time, appears to give himself breathing room to abandon

<p>Here’s an environmentally-friendly way to keep out the aliens, harking back to the days of medieval castles: build a moat. <br

Just posted to the Senate’s site: 20 Democrats -- mostly from rural, low-population states -- voted in favor of the gun amendment. Two Republicans, Sens. George

The district is the sort of largely white, largely pro-life, conservative area where reporters once found Reagan Democrats, and the sort that needs to flip if Republicans are to take back the House.

Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama went after subsidies to wealthy farmers as a prime example of the abusive federal spending he hopes to rein in from

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, appearing on Bryan Fischer’s radio program on Wednesday to talk up his new book, said that if he’s elected president, he’ll reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers. Fischer works for the American Family Association, a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center named a hate group in November for spreading falsehoods about Muslim and LGBT Americans