Breaking News

The Texas Congressman has a new 60-second ad spot that highlights not only Ron Paul ‘s own background in the military, but features veterans discussing the ways that Paul has honored them. The ad is embedded below: The Paul campaign has said the full ad time buy is in excess of $1 million.

State Auditor Hector Balderas raised $400,000 in the first two months of his candidacy for an open U.S. Senate seat in 2012, showing that he could mount a serious challenge to Rep.

Shortly after Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told a Senate panel this morning that we are regaining the initiative and insurgency

An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded

On election day, a candidate’s website becomes a crucial hub for outreach and mobilization. In another sign of their drastically different approaches to

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week,

Laura Rozen is at The Hague to report on tomorrow’s United Nations summit on Afghanistan, which the Iranians have agreed to attend. Rozen finds the Iranians

Alan Schram at Seeking Alpha takes some notes at the annual conference of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm run by the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.

Two Iowa labor experts — one a former labor attorney with more than 25 years experience and the other a communications professor who has extensively studied labor and the media — agree that it is difficult to view actions taken by the chairman of the U.S.

Is there an echo in here? In The New York Times today, op-ed columnist David Brooks blasts the Democrats’ House-passed stimulus package with the charge that

Today, a poll from Gallup shows where the uptick in consumer spending is coming from: the wealthy, and the wealthy only. Americans earning more than $90,000 a

No counterinsurgency leadership conference would be complete without the U.S. military’s chief theorist-practitioner of counterinsurgency, Army Gen. David

Eric Kleefeld points to a new post from Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), cheering on disruptions of Democratic town halls. Embedded in that post is an interesting

Via Josh Marshall, Mark Mazzetti reports for The New York Times that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) choice for CIA director, Steve Kappes, might remain

On the heels of the Mullah Baradar arrest, Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball report that the Taliban’s shadow governor in Kunduz, Mullah Abdul Salam, has been

The Washington Post reported this afternoon that Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), chairman of the investigative subcommittee tasked with substantiating the claims of

Supporters of diverse local media and champions of competition among news outlets are celebrating the recent U.S.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco will send a letter today to the

State Senator David Robertson (R-Grand Blanc Twp.) has introduced a bill that would require doctors to offer keepsake ultrasound photos to women who are seeking abortions. The bill requires that doctors perform an ultrasound, offer a description of the ultrasound image, an opportunity to listen to the heartbeat of the embryo or fetus, and a hard copy of the image.

Rep. Michele Bachmann has selected high-profile political strategist Ed Rollins to run her presidential campaign, two sources close to Bachmann told CBS