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Party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) is getting whacked again for his life-long record of supporting Democrats, this time from Tea Party-backed

TOLEDO, Ohio -- The McCain camp has pushed back hard on the notion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is operating independently from the senator’s campaign -- or, in

Sen. John McCain, as everyone knows, loves to say that he has never once, in his whole career, requested nor received a single earmark or pork-barrel project

Yesterday’s Pentagon briefing featured a telling exchange about Iraq between a reporter (whom I think was McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef) and spokesman Geoff

Immigration Policy Center released a study today contending that new Americans, defined as recent naturalized citizens and U.S.-born children of immigrants

Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam (Pic via Facebook) Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam told state citrus industry leaders Monday that Florida GOP elected officials should be credited for not passing the “mistaken” state immigration laws now in place in Georgia and Alabama. The Ledger reports that Putnam spoke at the 78th annual meeting of Citrus World Inc

As workers around the world participate in May Day celebrations of the labor movement’s past achievements, Paul Demko of TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota

Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly has a nice commentary on Alberto Gonzales and his recent lament that he’s one of the many casualties of the war on

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez acknowledged that her grandparents came to the U.S. without documents in an interview with Univision Albuquerque affiliate KLUZ-TV.

From the Republican senator’s Twitter feed:

The Pakistani Army is claiming that it has practically cleared the Taliban out of the Swat Valley. Now comes the real counterinsurgency test: holding the area.

Josh Gerstein is all over the Justice Department’s filing in Orly Taitz’s latest birther lawsuit. Taitz’s suit includes — not as evidence, but as something

Multilateral talks with Iran over its nuclear program are underway in Geneva. There are reports that there has been one breakout meeting between chief U.S.

A story today in the The Los Angeles Times on a study about biology and politics starts with: Die-hard liberals and conservatives aren’t made; they’re born.

With Congress returning this week, I thought it would be a good time to do a quick overview of what to expect on energy and environmental legislation. The

Ann Althouse puzzles over an assertion, in The New York Times, that President Obama’s winning agenda included rebalancing the distribution of wealth. Obama

Former Alaska Gov.

Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-funded political group, announced on Tuesday that it has formed a chapter in Minnesota.

If they weren’t already busy enough with an anti-Charles Rangel resolution, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) is hoping fellow Republicans will back his resolution

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has faced criticism from both GOP presidential primary opponents and activist groups for support for in-state tuition for undocumented

The heated Republican presidential debate in Iowa last night saw plenty of barbs between would-be GOP candidates, but, as our sister site The Iowa Independent points out , the candidates took jabs not only at one another, but at the debate moderators, as well. # One notable theme of the evening was the candidates’ attempts to out-perform one another when the conversation turned to abortion issues. # From The Iowa Independent’s coverage of the debate: # Poised and never appearing flustered, Bachmann deflected attack after attack fired by Pawlenty, including her compromise on raising Minnesota’s state tax on cigarettes in 2005