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Two months after filing suit over allegations of questionable contributions made to the 2006 and 2008 campaigns of Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, the Federal Election Commission has released three letters it sent to the Buchanan campaign asking for more details on the matter. # Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (aka CREW), which twice named Buchanan to its list of the most corrupt members of Congress, spoke out about the letters in a Wednesday press release

In response to my post earlier this afternoon on new polling numbers for the DISCLOSE Act, The Center For Competitive Politics’s Jeff Patch has supplied me with

All you have to do is look toward the mountains to know something unusual is happening. It’s pushing June, and Colorado high country remains decidedly white. It’s not unusual to see snow on the mountains any time of year

Gov. Susana Martinez is keeping clear of the Republican Senate primary — for now.

Conservatives are preemptively building a case against a potential Obama Supreme Court nominee.

This week, Louisiana’s legislature sidetracked a bill that would basically outlaw all abortions in the state. The bill would criminalize all abortions and define them as “feticide.” Louisiana is joining Mississippi in seeking “personhood” rights for fetuses. These proposed laws are aimed at banning abortions for all cases, including rape and incest

An environmental attorney who argued in favor of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule before a federal appeals court says there are only two legal options left for opponents of the Clinton-era rule and backers of state-specific rules like Colorado’s – and both are long-shots. Earthjustice attorney Jim Angell told the Colorado Independent that last week’s decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting a 2008 Wyoming federal court decision and backing the Clinton rule undermines Colorado’s contention that it needs its own rule because of legal uncertainty. “Really, for all intents and purposes this is the certainty we’re going to get in this region, and what’s really going on is the state wants its rule and is using alleged legal uncertainty as an excuse for its continued support for it,” Angell said.

“The moratorium is the biggest issue that has cropped up in the reelection campaign,” says the Louisiana Republican Party’s Aaron Baer.

At a key moment in the race, news reports indicated New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would praise Sen. John McCain in a speech this morning to the Independence

President Barack Obama has announced the death of Osama bin Laden, killed in Pakistan during a CIA/Navy Seals operation. The New York Times: WASHINGTON —

Jeff Anderson Duluth City Councilor Jeff Anderson collected four more Iron Range backers in his bid to win the DFL endorsement to run against U.S.

A new Public Policy Polling survey shows that more New Mexicans disapprove of President Obama than before, but still favor him for re-election over all Republican contenders. The poll showed that 50 percent approve of the president and 44 percent disapprove, down from a 55/40 split measured by PPP last February. Former Massachusetts Gov.

The editors of Scientific American published an op-ed saying that the practice of hydrofracking has been adopted faster than questions about the safety of the procedure have been answered and that the states are “flying blind” in trying to regulate its effects. Public fears are growing about contamination of drinking-water supplies from the chemicals used in fracking and from the methane gas itself. Field tests show that those worries are not unfounded.

It’s an entirely new financial world out there today -- in a single weekend, Wall Street has turned upside down. As The Washington Post explained, two of the

One thing you can say about a kid who goes to bed hungry is that he will wake up the same way. Odds are he’ll go to school hungry as well.

Before National Financial Literacy Month ends on Friday, it’s worth noting a few developments. The nation’s premier financial literacy organization, the

It’s a curiously enormous loophole in the federal effort to keep firearms out of the hands of felons, fugitives, minors and the mentally ill: Unlicensed

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in National Review, today: If I was going to put a label on the president’s statements, I’d have to get my thesaurus. He and the

Economist and former Labor Sec. Robert Reich, who spoke out early and forcefully in opposition to the $700-billion Treasury Dept., rescue plan, is back again,

A judge’s ruling could have wide-reaching implications for 600 detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

I don’t know if I can handle any more Alaska drama! The Anchorage Daily News reports this morning that Democratic Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich has pulled