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UPDATED Oct. 27, 2:40 p.m. EST: Amended with a correction* and update UPDATE: The National Organization for Marriage has since removed from its website the

As I reported on Friday, a federal judge had given the Obama administration until yesterday to disclose or cite the reasons for not disclosing hundreds of

From the hordes of Tea Partiers to the prophets of Fox News, cries of scandal rocked the country this year. Only these five had no basis in reality.

It really takes an amazing amount of chutzpah for Bill Kristol to pretend he cares more about the Army than Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, and I

The iconoclastic conservative, who’d spent the past week attacking the way that GOP lost the health care fight, says his departure came after being asked to

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) spokesman Brad Dayspring has responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that he’s less concerned about a long-term threat from

After the failure of the third cloture vote to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal, Senate Democrats say

Crack intelligence reporter Erick Erickson posted that he was hearing a very credible rumor that CIA Director Leon Panetta has dispatched a resignation

Last week, The American Independent reported on the so-called “gun show loophole” that permits private gun sales without a background check in most states.

Something I couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday: Ivan Oelrich, the acting president of the Federation for American Scientists, weighs in on what President

Here are some photos from today’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. (Click images to enlarge.) – You can

Most observers agree that Al Franken’s (DFL-Minn.) election to the U.S. Senate is not a matter of if, but when. Not so for newly minted Republican National

The benefits of longer instructional time for students were put into question this week with the published results of Chicago Public School’s state

<p>Apropos of <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/state-department">my piece on the State Department</a>, I ventured

In exchange for their support to overcome a GOP filibuster, moderate Democrats extract big concessions on the public option and abortion coverage for women.

The Supreme Court is set to hear three big cases charging that the anti-corruption laws are too vague and recent high-level prosecutions under them must be

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press over the weekend calling for the state to change the way it selects judges from elections to an appointment process, as it is at the federal level.

By the end of this week, 40 state legislatures will have adjourned, concluding a legislative season full of proposed bills aimed to restrict women’s access to

House Republicans are increasing pressure against U.S. Rep

MSNBC’s The Ed Show on MSNBC turned its focus on Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District race as candidate Lynne Torgerson spoke with Rev. Al Sharpton about incumbent Rep. Keith Ellison last night

The statement from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) following today’s health policy teleconference with other Gang of Six members relays

On Wednesday morning, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign rolled out its toughest talking points of this Republican National Convention. Chief Obama spokesperson Bill

As Sen. John McCain accepts the GOP presidential nomination on Thursday night, his opponent will enter the No Spin Zone. Yes, Sen. Barack Obama is