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Eric Kleefeld rounds up more local Tea Party coverage and sees a conflict between the hard-line activists who attend these things, versus the more mainstream

One hesitates to say this will amount to anything, but Marc Lynch notes that Mohammed Essam Derbala, a leader of Ayman Zawahiri’s Egyptian terrorist group that

At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has capitulated and decided to vote for financial regulatory reform legislation.

President Obama is expected to sign an executive order Monday ending the controversial ban on increased federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, The

It’s a small gesture, but during a press briefing yesterday on coordinating NATO civilian-military planning with Afghan efforts, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the

PHOENIX -- Sen. John McCain paints himself as a pro-veteran’s veteran, but his voting history tells a different story.

As Matt points out, President George W. Bush announced he wants to see the U.S. start drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and exploring the Arctic National

So says The Hill, which is reporting that the 91-year West Virginia Democrat was released from the hospital Tuesday after more than six weeks of treatment for

Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard.

The Cairo speech has eaten up most of my day, but last night, Bruce Riedel, the chairman of the Obama administration’s strategy review on Afghanistan and

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- or half of it, more accurately -- has begun its first day of markup of the landmark Kerry-Boxer climate

Police in Oak Park have dropped the case against Julie Bass for having a garden in her front yard. Instead, the city is pursuing criminal charges against her for failing to have her two dogs licensed. Bass made headlines around the world after she went public about the garden fray with Oak Park officials

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on April 16, 2009. These are medieval documents,

The Michigan Messenger’s Minehaha Forman has the details: The FBI has offered Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers a plea deal involving her apparent

A new study by one of the leading auto industry analysis firms concludes that the American domestic automobile market will rebound to a full 16 million vehicles sold by the year 2013, a number that would be near the highest rates of the last decade. The Detroit Free Press reports : New vehicle sales in the U.S

This doesn’t have much actual bearing on the case of Matthew Hoh, the top U.S. civilian official in Zabul Province, resigning from the State Department in

The U.S. Senate failed to file cloture on the National Defense Authorization Act, which included an amendment to repeal Don’t ask, don’t tell, the military’s

PITTSBURGH - The conversation with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) heated up a bit as he took questions on what he could do to bring Republicans on board with

From the stage of the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips announced that organizers would be putting together a second convention from July 15