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John Gorman, the former ArmorGroup Kabul project manager turned whistleblower whose allegations against the company I wrote about yesterday, met with aides to

Despite asking some of the harshest and arguably most patronizing questions of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor over the past three days, Sen. Lindsey

Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn indicated Friday that not one specific issue will help define candidates among Iowa Republicans in the 2012 election.

Charles Johnson of the war-on-terror-watching blog Little Green Footballs tells critics of President Obama to cool it over the resolution of the pirate hostage

Norman Stamper, the retired Seattle police chief and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com) shakes his finger at President

Via Twitter, Markos Moulitsas leaks the results of the latest Research 2000/Daily Kos poll of the NY-23 special election. Since the last poll, Democratic

Though Florida’s 2011 legislative session only recently came to a close, a program that emerged as one of its key successes has fallen behind schedule. # Contracting delays have thrown the implementation of a prescription drug database intended to aid the state’s crackdown on pill mills database off schedule by least two weeks

For a man accustomed to life outside the spotlight as the former head of the military’s secretive Joint Special Operations Command, McChrystal now finds himself

There’s only one guy in the country who thinks that, in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal, it’s still business as usual in Springfield, Ill., and that’s Gov.

Via Evan McMorris-Santoro, I see that National Review’s Jay Nordlinger has written a history of how teabagger came to be used as a catch-all pejorative term

President-elect Barack Obama named the four leaders of his energy and environmental team at a press conference in Chicago this evening, pledging a new hybrid

After months of negotiations over the summer between the House, the Senate and the Obama administration, the Senate has passed a bill to triple non-military aid

It turned out money couldn’t buy a revolution.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was scheduled to give a speech at Chicago’s Union League Club Thursday morning, but a few unexpected guests in attendance had their own message to deliver.

A newly released Quinnipiac University poll shows that a majority of Florida voters now believe President Obama deserves to be reelected. Obama’s numbers are up since April, when a 51 percent majority believed he did not deserve to be reelected. Current numbers give him a 51 percent approval rate, with 44 percent saying he should not be serve another term.

One of Rick Scott’s first acts as governor was to sign an executive order requiring that all state agencies — and all companies that enter contracts with state agencies — use E-Verify to check the employment elligibility of their workers. # On May 27, Scott quietly issued another executive order , 11-116 (.pdf), which supersedes the one signed in January, 11-02 (.pdf)

In case you missed it...some things are just too good not to mention. ABC reported that while New Orleans braced for Hurricane Gustav to make landfall,

Lawyers for Maher Arar, a 34-year-old Syrian-born Canadian who was arrested at JFK airport, taken to Syria, interrogated and tortured, argue he has a right to sue for damages. If the Second Circuit sides with Arar, the government could face many more lawsuits.