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GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) Mother Jones reports that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has received an endorsement from former Rep.

A Guantanamo detainee’s transfer to the United States for trial is at odds with the president’s call for a new system of indefinite imprisonment.

NASHVILLE -- I’m so proud to be an American! Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin took the stage of the National Tea Party Convention to a thundering

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

Wednesday’s protests at the Capitol were many times larger than those on Tuesday, with teachers, laborers, nurses, firefighters, police officers and senior citizens filling up the entire front lawn to hear calls to action from political leaders. Here are some images from the rally.

Democrats may enjoy characterizing Palin as Quayle in a pantsuit, but they should be cautious.

Two potential GOP presidential contenders from Minnesota have signed on to speak at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

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

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

A number of sites have featured a hypothetical electoral map entitled This Is What the 2008 Electoral Map Would Look Like if the Election Were Decided by 18-29

So reports The Associated Press. The commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia was diagnosed in February and has undergone two months of

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