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Homegrown terrorists are playing a more important role in leading and planning terrorist operations. Gov. Schwarzenegger is in Alaska, but can’t see

Obama’s plans for reforming No Child Left Behind may have to wait. Democratic senators are choosing not to lobby House members on health care. Some

Jeff Greene sues two Florida papers for costing him his Senate bid. McCain once joked that the Secret Service should shoot out Palin’s tires. ...and

Adam Serwer, fresh from a trip to Guantanamo Bay to see a proceeding in an Obama-era military commission, draws some conclusions about the administration’s

Because some things never change, we offer up a bootleg of the Beatles singing about immigration.

I don’t know what it might be, but I understand there’s going to be a White House background briefing on Guantanamo Bay in about an hour. Newsweek’s Michael

The final Farleigh-Dickinson/PublicMind poll in New Jersey has Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) continuing his slow rise back from oblivion and into contention,

In what has become a consistent thread in Sen. John McCain’s quest for the White House, a few more of Sen. Barack Obama’s celebrity friends -- at least that’s

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano whether Attorney General Eric

Afghanistan optimism: Catch it! “I still will tell you that I believe the situation in Afghanistan is serious,” said the commander, Gen. Stanley A.

Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation which eliminates the state’s Michigan Business Tax and Surcharge, replacing it with a six percent tax on businesses

Massey Energy, the owner of the West Virginia mine where 29 miners were killed in a blast last month, has shocked its critics today, urging federal officials to

Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld, in a written statement for the House oversight committee, portrays himself as a victim of mortgage-market forces beyond his

A new CNN poll has found, for what I think is the first time, a majority of Americans opposed to the war in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials and

As the second funnel week of the legislative session looms two weeks from today, Iowa lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are identifying priorities for the next two weeks. But disagreements and passionate-fueled controversy, however, could put bills on hold until the next year. Lawmakers could either pass or stall a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks in Iowa as early as next week

For a certain anti-Obama crowd, thoughtful responses from GOP lawmakers to queries about the validity of president-elect’s right to office fuels their fire.

Just off the phone with the offices of both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), where spokespeople

The EPA just issued a statement announcing that they have extended the review period for 79 surface mining permit applications in Appalachia. This means that

Fellow TPM alum, Kate Klonick has joined us to blog the remaking of the Department of Justice, including Eric Holder’s Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

Faisal Shahzad, already guilty in the world court of Self-Defeating Terrorists, has pleaded guilty to a ten-count indictment on terrorism charges. According to

House lawmakers on Thursday easily passed legislation to eliminate billions of dollars in federal subsidies to private insurers offering low-rate student loans.

Ending increasing speculation about the fate of his controversial daily show at Fox News, Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he was ending his three-year run. The show will go off the air “later this year” according to a release