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The National Organization for Marriage continues to make independent expenditures on behalf of Republican Cindy Golding in a special election race for the Iowa Senate. The group spent $9,757 on Nov.

Now it’s really in President Obama’s court: This afternoon, the Supreme Court, as predicted, dismissed the appeal of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the last U.S.

The continued budget pressures on the City of Lansing have led officials to eliminate a rented space on the city’s south side that has most recently housed the investigation unit of the police department. Until 2010, the facility housed investigations and patrol personnel to service the south end of Lansing.

In the last few weeks, irritated progressive critics have looked at Obama’s Cabinet picks and wondered why the left has been left out. An examination of the president-elect’s White House staff reveals where liberals will be in the next administration -- closest to the president.

Among the objections from Congressional Republicans to transferring Guantanamo detainees from Cuba to Illinois is the fear that the prisoners will suddenly have

Conservative commentator and strategist Grover Norquist has weighed in on Ohio’s ballot initiative to repeal the controversial Senate Bill 5, the

The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to send Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate. The margin was 13-6, with Sen. Lindsey Graham

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory last night over Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary, pundits are asking how in the world she did

Last time, it was the lascivious behavior of ArmorGroup -- the private security firm handling the U.S. Embassy in Kabul -- that attracted headlines. Those

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wants to know why the Justice Department’s David Kris thinks the military

One very very large reason for the decline in violence in Baghdad in the latter half of 2007 was radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s decision to have his

In a full-page spread in today’s Washington Post, some players in the energy industry take an opportunity to congratulate Congress for allowing a 26-year-old

At The Daily Beast, Benjy Sarlin reports that Tea Party-affiliated candidates might force Republicans to get specific on where they would cut the country’s

The Minnesota Senate race hit another bump today as the campaigns of Al Franken and Sen. Norm Coleman disagreed over which absentee ballots to count, to the

Now that the ethically dubious publication of some of his private emails has derailed Dave Weigel’s tenure at The Washington Post by raising questions about his

Florida is getting another round of grants from the Affordable Care Act for public health. The state was awarded nearly $1 million for immunizations and a tobacco cessation program. # The U.S.

While working on something unrelated, I realized that none of the men and women currently being discussed as 2012 GOP challengers to President Barack Obama had

Great piece from The New York Times’ Jane Perlez about the Pakistani army’s impending urban combat with the Taliban in the Swat Valley city of Mingora. About

With all the focus on Massey Energy, it’s worth noting that they’re not the lone coal company facing fire over safety issues in recent weeks. Indeed, federal

Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson was not invited to the first New Hampshire debate of the Republican primary on June 13. The debate , sponsored by CNN, WMUR and the New Hampshire Union Leader, does however include Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann , who has not yet announced her candidacy for president

In a YouTube clip posted today , Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos announces that he’s decided to drop out of the U.S. Senate GOP primary. # After touting his 2011 record in the Legislature and some of his early campaign endorsements, Haridopolos says it “became increasingly clear” that his responsibilities as a legislative leader were “in conflict” with his campaign commitments.

Lindsay Graham drives me crackers. Despite being a consistent and often brave enemy of torture, he can also cover up with the best of them. "We’re not