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Via Eric Kleefeld, a new CNN poll shows President Obama’s plan to end the war in 2011 to be astoundingly popular: 70 percent approve and 29 percent don’t. It’s

The GOP-leaning polling outfit Resurgent Republic is out with a new survey that tests conservative messaging on health care and recommends that Republicans talk

Gov. Rick Snyder has established a bipartisan commission to investigate how to improve the legal defense services provided to low-income people accused of crimes.

NASHVILLE -- The woman dubbed by the Orange County Register as queen of the birthers arrived at the National Tea Party Convention today and did what she

Despite a courts-driven redistricting plan that could drastically reshape Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, candidates are lining up to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack. Swept into Congress in the 2010 Republican tidal wave, Cravaack is widely viewed as vulnerable, and a slate of accomplished candidates from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party attests to that perceived weakness.

Matt touched on this, but, seriously. There was a lot of talk from Obama about how his national-security team understands the integrated challenges of 21st

Following revelations of their involvement in the war on public unions in Wisconsin, the once-anonymous Koch Industries executive vice president David Koch and

Consumer advocates for years have warned that the payday loan industry preys on low-income borrowers who become reliant on one loan to pay off another -- with

In language that may or not have been cleverly chosen, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the newest member of the Democratic party, told reporters moments ago

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had strong words for Iowans on the state of education, but a stronger word of warning to the Legislature: keep politics out of education. U.S

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is overjoyed now that President Obama has signed into law a bill authorizing summer and year-round activities at ski areas on national forest land.

At a hearing this morning with executives from five leading oil companies, House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) lambasted the

Last year, the U.S. government bailed out auto giant GM at a cost of around $50 billion, gaining 61 percent of the company in the process and expecting around

Live from Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) backyard -- specifically the University of Louisville -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver a

According to the latest numbers from Florida’s new welfare drug testing requirements, the state is currently spending more money on drug testing welfare applicants than it is saving money by denying benefits to those applicants who fail the test. The New York Times reports : The law in Florida, where the average recipient receives $253 a month for less than five months, is more expansive.

Maybe blasts was the wrong verb for my old headline on the White House’s response to Israel’s expansion of settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem. The

One thing unlikely to change as the result of President Obama’s review of Afghanistan strategy is the administration’s perspectives on Pakistan. As the Senate

Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed a handful of bills Friday, including a scaled-back set of income tax cuts and a rulemaking bill that clears up some discrepancies in last year’s House Bill 1565, which requires legislative approval for certain new regulations

On a conference call with supporters of Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom coalition on Tuesday evening, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said she would reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, while agreeing with a caller who said allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military would “destroy the armed forces.” “I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,” Bachmann said in her introductory remarks. “I gave my life to the Lord when I was 16 years of age.

When President Obama made unexpected comments about the long history of racial profiling by police in this country at his press conference last night, it was a

As I reported earlier, President Obama’s Justice Department today stood up in court and asserted the so-called state secrets privilege to argue, like the Bush

The Minnesota for Marriage coalition, a group that is is urging voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, has told the media and the Minnesota campaign finance board that if they have to disclose their donors, they will be subject to violence by supporters of marriage equality. But a string of court cases across the country have shed serious doubt on those claims, with courts finding that conservative leaders were unable to provide credible evidence of threats or violence