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I’m in an overstuffed ballroom at the Willard hotel for the third annual conference of the Center for a New American Security, where the commander of U.S.

I’m at the Omni Shoreham hotel today for the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, where the tone was set by former United Nation Ambassador’s slashing

Audio smuggled out of the right-wing billionaire benefactor Koch Brothers’ secret meeting in Beaver Creek last month has made headlines for the red-meat rhetoric it captured and for identifying the high-profile attendees who sneaked in and out of the event. The fact that Charles Koch welcomed the crowd by referring to the coming presidential election as a Saddam Hussein-style “mother of all battles” is unsurprising but also unsettling– and not just because it’s an aggressive overstatement

Part 1: Foreign investors grow ever more nervous as the dollar drops relative to other currencies.

Yesterday, I highlighted the dark-horse campaign of Michael E. Arth for governor of Florida, pointing readers to the whimsical bio featured on his website. This

Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler made national news this week by filing a lawsuit to stop Denver County, and by extension all Colorado counties, from mailing ballots to the state’s “inactive” voters . The case drew the attention of voter-rights defenders US Reps Charles Gonzalez of Texas and Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, who wrote a letter asking the justice department to investigate

How bad is the country’s long-term unemployment problem? Well, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) -- who made headlines this year for (among other things)

A recent survey of Mississippi Republicans conducted by Public Policy Polling (pdf) found that a majority of them believe inter-racial marriage should be illegal. According to the poll, 46 percent of the Republicans told PPP staffers that interracial marriage should be illegal and 14 percent of them said they weren’t sure. Only 40 percent of Mississippi Republicans believe interracial couples should be allowed to legally marry

Phil Gramm is back -- and Sen. Barack Obama’s aides are happy to have his gruff voice back in the debate. Breaking from Bloomberg news: Gramm Says

Today will be the first in a series of meetings between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and officials in communities that want to opt out of the Secure

Dick Cheney: Another term out there that slipped into the discussion is the notion that American interrogation practices were a “recruitment tool” for the

That’s going to be the focus of this morning’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning with Gen. David Petraeus and Michele Flournoy, the

With the deadline for filing campaign finance reports this week, Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced that she raised $1 million for next year’s election, matching her chief Republican competitor, Rep

Earlier today, the White House reiterated that it opposes a blanket moratorium on foreclosures, preferring to work with servicers and lenders to sort out the

Texas’ smaller universities are reprioritizing in attempts to deal with massive cuts in their budgets, although state-mandated cuts have not been as severe as

The National Organization for Marriage is fighting off legislative efforts by Rhode Island and New York assemblies to offer rights to same-sex couples.

EPA REGION 7 RELEASE — As the risks of new flooding along portions of the Missouri River continue to exist, EPA Region 7 is urging residents of those areas to consider moving potentially hazardous items to safer locations in advance of rising waters. During past flooding events in the Midwest, EPA has partnered with various local, state, and tribal governments to respond under the authority of the federal Oil Pollution Act to recover certain types of items from flood waters to prevent them from entering landfills. Notice of impending flooding allows residents and property owners time to relocate and secure items so that they do not become inundated, pollute water or become hazardous wastes

It’s a rarity to find agreement on both sides of the national political aisle these days, but it seems Atlanta businessman Herman Cain ‘s ’9-9-9′ tax plan is a uniting force. Michele Bachmann The campaign for U.S.

Obama may have a hard time fulfilling his promises on immigration reform. U.S. envoy George Mitchell to meet with Netanyahu in efforts to push

The changing demographics of the United States suggest that there would be a lot of support for comprehensive immigration reform that includes legalization of