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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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,

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims remained high, at 456,000. That is a decline of 3,000 from last week’s claim,

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.

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)

Remember when we thought Troopergate was over a few weeks ago? Well, now it actually is -- I think. A second report, produced by a group of Gov. Sarah

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.

In this corner, we have the surge -- the idea of which was to provide security so the Shiite Maliki government and Iraqi Sunnis could have breathing room to

Michelle Lujan Grisham Bernalillo County Commissioner Michelle Lujan Graham announced Tuesday she is running for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District. “I’m running for Congress because we are under attack in this country,” Grisham said in remarks released to the media. “A band of right-wing radicals in Congress has hijacked our country and put the interests of their corporate masters ahead of the middle class, seniors and the most vulnerable among us.” Grisham won a seat on the Board of County Commissioners in 2010

The cost of a naturalization application is still $595, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced last week. The agency decided against a proposed fee

An article in Mother Jones examines South Dakota’s House Bill 1171, which seeks to redefine the limits of what the law terms “justifiable homicide”