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On the day Eric Massa resigned from the House, he refunded $112,000 in campaign donations, according to the Federal Election Commission. More than half of those

The U.S. government tried to get Binyam Mohamed -- the British resident who was held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for four years and allegedly

From the LetsTalkLiberty Twitter account that’s following Carl Swensson’s Birthers as they try to deliver citizen indictments of the president of the United

Last week, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael Maples, acknowledged a simple truth about the presence of the Taliban senior leadership

Under newly proposed legislation, the federal government would no longer fund projects that only teach sex education in the context of abstinence only until

See the related story here. In the third quarter of 2008, some 765,558 American properties received default notices or were in foreclosure. While Fannie

The Las Conchas fire has now burned more than 80,000 acres as of Wednesday night, leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory closed through at least Friday. LANL says that no fires are burning within its 36 square miles of land, and fire crews are working on thinning fuels and improving existing fire roads.

Texas’ Alternatives to Abortion Services Program reimburses nonprofit subcontractors $63 per hour for mentoring/counseling performed by unlicensed volunteers to

Arizonans also go to the polls today, but the much anticipated GOP Senate primary race between Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Rep. J. D. Hayworth

President Obama today released his proposed budget, calling for investment in infrastructure and education but also pledging massive cuts over the next decade. Congressman Jared Polis’s statement on the budget: “I applaud President Obama’s budget which goes to great lengths to reduce the deficit, while also placing a high priority on investing in education.

So we know about Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Stephen

Before Congress has a chance to vote on a Republican-backed bill to repeal the Federal Communication Commission’s Internet-access regulations passed in

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is targeting the senatorial practice of the secret hold, arguing that the Honest

Via Dave Weigel, Tom Tancredo, who is running as the Constitutional Party’s candidate for Colorado governor, has a new ad bashing opponent John Hickenlooper’s

Read this great New York Times piece for a taste of how intractable the difficulties with reconciliation in Iraq are. To fully understand it, let’s imagine that

A community protest against the planned CCA immigrant detention center (Pic courtesy Gail Tyree) Pembroke Pines elected officials confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and residents of Southwest Ranches and Pembroke Pines will meet this Saturday to discuss a proposed immigration detention center.

PajamasTV hasn’t really been in the news since it hired Sam Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher to report on the war in Gaza, but it’s still kicking. Some of its

A host of progressive activists, Occupy Wall Streeters and union members rallied and marched from Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis to the Wells Fargo building Friday. The march, which led to a sit-in protest outside the bank’s headquarters, was spurred by what marchers defined as the unwillingness of the major banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, to address the continuing foreclosure crisis.

Here’s something that slipped under the radar yesterday. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan organization that tracks money in

Talking Points Memo reports that the McCain campaign is shifting its ad spending away from Colorado and states won by Sen. John Kerry in 2004 to those won by

Breaking news from The New York Times: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were

There’s some truly historic intra-party bashing in Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.)’s rant to Kentucky reporters. On his majority leader, and fellow Kentucky