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I see where Republicans are with this, said one GOP aide in the House, but it drives me insane. What happens if you run, win, and don’t repeal?

The last time I wrote about the case of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, the government had just conceded that its primary evidence -- his confessions --

“Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin. I used to introduce myself as a UT professor,

Short answer: Hard to say. Long answer: Retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) has been a moderate voice on environmental policy -- he voted for cloture on the

Updated at 12:45 p.m. EST to add comments from the Louisiana Democratic Party The Times-Picayune has obtained an invitation for a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser to

Just got a readout of what’s likely to be included in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) scaled-down energy bill. According to an environmentalist

Major news publications are paying attention to the fact that a Texas law against homosexual conduct is still in the Penal Code despite being ruled

Here’s an interesting fact: despite the massive size of the Gulf oil spill, it’s not actually the biggest oil spill ever to occur in the United States. That

Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian negotiating team has accepted a draft version of a deal to ship nuclear fuel out of the country for

Carl Swensson, the man who’s trying to get legally dubious Citizen Grand Juries to indict President Obama for ... something (Swensson doesn’t even think

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documents from the Department of Homeland

Ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), following the introduction of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor by

The Washington Post runs a breathless piece of Kremlinology arguing that Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is a force of political reason within

Speaking in the Rose Garden, surrounded by three unemployed workers, this morning President Obama again castigated Republicans for blocking the federal

In a welcome break from past policy, the Obama administration last week announced that it will abandon a handful of deceptive budget gimmicks used perennially

The wait is over. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) just announced that she’ll support the $829 billion health reform bill soon to be voted on by the Senate Finance

The much-derided amendment by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to gut the consumer financial protections from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory

The perils of writing posts last night and timing them for release in the morning! Meet re-Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. His reinstatement meets the basic

When pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer pay billion-dollar fines for illegal off-label marketing (promoting drugs for unapproved uses), prosecutors and the

The Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, Jim Tedisco -- who loudly denounced negative ads in his race against

Citing budget concerns, the Senate on Wednesday killed a $245 billion proposal to scrap the controversial formula that dictates doctor payments under

Just released from the White House communications shop: The White House today announced that Deputy National Security Director and National Security Council