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The timing here isn’t coincidental, nor are the players. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), who head the Senate Ethics Committee,

Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that President Obama might push for another unemployment extension in November, when the extension

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential

The fight over re-mapping Ohio’s congressional districts has become a savage partisan battleground in Columbus, and could even result in a referendum that

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) just unveiled their much-anticipated climate and energy bill and expressed optimism that they had the

Ohio voters went to the polls yesterday for the first day of early voting, exercising a right in Ohio that the state’s Republicans had fought hard to

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) asked why the Taliban won’t simply reconstitute itself in the parts of Afghanistan that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s population-security

An alleged admission by a 51-year-old Comstock Park, Mich., man that he attempted to infect hundreds of people with HIV through unprotected sexual activity and

The Republican National Committee’s e-cards for Valentine’s Day -- a cute gimmick that the parties have been doing more of -- includes a reminder that, no

One watchdog says the strange giving patterns just shows the financial industry isn’t sure what’s happening to itself.

There’s no official count available on the current number of active immigration PACs, but according to TWI research, there are at least eight immigration PACs

Kate’s last post about Eric Holder brings up something that struck me kind of funny, as Bruce Springsteen would say. Notwithstanding Holder’s language about

The DSCC is gleefully sending around video -- at around six minutes in -- of the Republican hopefuls for Sen. Evan Bayh’s (D-Ind.) seat backing Sen. Jim

He was angry, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said just now about President Obama’s reaction after reading Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s comments to

As reported on Monday, the Pentagon didn’t embrace Stuart Bowen’s proposal to create a new agency -- the U.S. Office of Contingency Operations -- to help plan

Two weeks ago I noted that the U.S. military signed its last checks to the former insurgents known as the Sons of Iraq or the Awakening Councils. The program --

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)* is promising to sue for another recount if, as expected, Al Franken is declared the winner of Minnesota’s Senate race this week.

I’m seeing a bunch of stories about how the spiking worry about the deficit that’s showing up in polls is a political problem for the White House. Inside the

Insurance companies paid out $55 million in claims from the natural gas outage of last winter, reports Trip Jennings of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Doug Hoffman, the insurgent Conservative Party candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District posts this picture of his Canastota, N.Y. office on

Let’s say you are in the market for a new car, and you head down to view the stock at your local auto dealer. You pick out your car and decide to go ahead with