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One quick thing that I didn’t mention in today’s piece about a training session and media meet-and-greet that FreedomWorks held for Tea Party activists was the

This didn’t fit into my piece yesterday, but at his parley with the Council on Foreign Relations, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the Pakistani foreign minister, said

We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official -- West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is running in his state’s special Senate election. He announced his

From Friday, but still worth noting, is a rather comprehensive list compiled by the Think Progress blog of all the monetary pledges conservative groups have

New unemployment numbers for July are out today, and they show a slight drop in the jobless rate, to 9.4 percent -- the first decline since April of 2008,

At the Heritage Foundation, Manny Miranda floated the theory that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could sink her own nomination by being overly firey and

The Sun-Sentinel reports on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s visit to the Daytona 500, and her response to a reporter’s political question. When asked what a

First Read reported that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) choice for CIA director is current deputy director Steve Kappes. Kappes, unlike Leon Panetta, is a

China, where, as a matter of policy, the yuan is deliberately undervalued in order to keep Chinese exports cheap, is now attacking the U.S. for its weak

Hurricane McCain arrived in Florida today. To coincide with Sen. John McCain’s two-day visit, the Florida Democratic Party unveiled a new Website that features

The Senate passed an extension of unemployment benefits through November last night; now the House has just done the same. Next stop: President Obama’s

Marine scientists at the University of Georgia are taking issue with a report released last week by the Obama administration that said much of the oil from the

Just released from the Vice President’s office: “Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave

McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay was with the Marines in Gangjal, a village in southern Afghanistan, when they walked into a killing zone of relentless gunfire and

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

Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, was asked

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

Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney

Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go

Eight years after Katherine Boo wrote “The Marriage Cure” for The New Yorker -- which explored the idea promulgated by the George W. Bush administration