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In a new Federal Reserve policy statement, the Federal Open Market Committee said that the pace of recovery has slowed. Conditions have deteriorated,

Toward the end of President Bush’s remarks today announcing his plan to throw GM and Chrysler a lifeline, he included a line about American workers. He

Politico’s John Bresnahan has a great piece of reporting today about the hypocrisy of Republican leaders calling for the end of earmarks, not to mention the

Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) is one of the lesser-known, more hardcore members of the Republican conference, which means that when he shows up to a Heritage

Nice piece of reporting by the AP’s Lauran Neergaard about how shoe-leather Minnesota epidemiologists traced the contaminated jalapenos that seem to be

A recent poll conducted by Thomson Reuters Pulse Healthcare Survey found than an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that family planning services (not including abortion) for low-income women should be subsidized by the federal government. # When asked, “Do you think the federal government should subsidize birth control and other family planning services, NOT including abortion, at government-funded clinics for low-income women?” 78 percent of respondents said yes. # According to the survey, “the percentage decreases with age: while 90% of those 35 years old or under responded yes, that figure dipped to 70% in respondents 65 years old or older.” # Even though there is clear public support for such policy, states around the country have actively undermined federal efforts to fund family planning.

Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. Now that Sen. John McCain has officially lost the presidency, Politico reminds him that he still has an audit to look

There’s a haunting paragraph in Nancy Youssef’s dispatch from Kabul today. She writes about the influx of U.S. diplomats and other civilians to Kabul --

The Iowa Independent reports: Steve Deace, who hosts a drive-time show on WHO-AM, said society helped create Scott Roeder, the man in custody for the killing

PITTSBURGH - There was a lot to chew on in former President Bill Clinton’s speech at Netroots Nation, which started warmly but veered off track after hecklers

Jonathan Martin plugged this speech from A.B. Culvahouse, the head of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential vetting project, and it was a fascinating look

More fallout from U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith’s abrupt firing from the United Nations mission in Afghanistan. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirms that an

After a day of haggling, a provision to limit bonuses to top executives of bailed-out banks was tucked into the stimulus last night. But for bankers who might

The indispensable Red County blog digs in on the story with some intel about how, exactly, Erik Brown came to bill the RNC nearly $2,000 for a night at

Weeks before U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pushed for the elimination of government-backed loan programs, she and her husband, Marcus, signed documents to finance a $417,000 home loan, which experts told The Washington Post was backed by the very programs Bachmann had aimed to destroy

Late yesterday, the House passed a war-funding bill. But the $80 billion bill actually includes only $37 billion in war funding; the rest is made up of

The U.S. Senate followed the House’s lead, passing Wednesday morning the continuing resolution to keep the government funded through March 18. The measure was

After President Obama called the heads of 12 of the largest banks into his office to lecture them about not lending enough to small businesses, the message was

According to Forbes magazine , Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is following the lead of Michigan Gov

The two-minutes-hate dreamed up by the Iranian Revolution to divert public hostility at its repression over to Israel isn’t working this year. The New York