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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has invited Jay Bybee, the former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer and current judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth

When the Latch School, an Arizona special education institution, asked Sen. John McCain in 2003 to help it secure a $288,000 grant from the Federal

The deluge continues. Word comes that in response to pending requests from the American Civil Liberties Union, another tranche of CIA documents about Bush-era

It’s been a bad 24 hours for the birthers, but that hasn’t slowed down the monster FreeRepublic.com thread on the forged Kenyan birth certificate. Jemian

Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist

Studies and Congressional testimony show an immigration system with few rules or supervision.

Gov. Rick Scott yesterday vetoed almost $1.5 million for a handful of community health care clinics in Florida that provide adult and pediatric primary health care services, family planning, immunizations and STD and HIV screening, among other services, to low-income and minority patients

An online boycott of an Edina car wash that’s allowed a controversial youth ministry that activists say has taken anti-gay stances to fundraise on their property has spread to three of the company’s other locations. The boycott movement was kicked off last week when 17-year-old Gabe Aderhold saw members of You Can Run But You Can’t Hide ministry, which is run by Bradlee Dean , tabling at the Edina Car Wash on France Avenue near his house. “I’ve just recently become familiar with Bradlee Dean. That table has been there many times over the past couple years,” Aderhold told the Minnesota Independent

Given the political danger in making a decision — any decision — about the Keystone XL pipeline going into an election year, some observers think President Obama is likely to delay a final decision on the project until after the 2012 election. Politico reports : The problem: Obama runs the risk of disappointing either labor unions or environmental groups that went to bat for him in 2008, and he can’t really afford to have any of his previous supporters sit on the sidelines next year. “It’s a hell of a dilemma,” said one environmentalist who believes Obama will delay a decision for a while.

Mark Goldberg identifies the Republicans who are supporting the coup in Honduras, the second break with President Obama’s foreign policy in less than a

Raise your hand if you’re confused. First, as Congress and the Bush administration were haggling over how to structure an effective Wall Street bailout

Now that Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings have more or less wrapped up (he still has to answer some questions in writing to a few

Eve Fairbanks and Matthew Yglesias both dump cluster bombs of snark on Republicans who are opposing President Obama much the way that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

The Minnesota Independent, our sister site, just put up an enlightening series of interviews with conservative Minneapolis residents protesting the Democrats’

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

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

As Ali Soufan prepares to testify publicly for the first time about the FBI’s role in the torture policies of the Bush administration, some aspects of his testimony are already clear -- others are less so.

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

With the news that Bristol Palin, the unmarried 17-year-old daughter of Sen. John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, it’s difficult not to