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The DNC is gleefully circulating an AP article that flags another obvious, but important, shortcoming of Sen. John McCain’s domestic platform when viewed under

Frustrations are running high on Iowa’s Capitol Hill. The 2011 Legislative session inched into the 130-day range this week, and lawmakers are reluctant to give an end date as Republicans and Democrats continue to battle job creation tactics, education funding and budget and property tax relief issues . The split Legislature — a Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate — have been embroiled on these topics since the session commenced in January, while reporting little progress

State Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City and Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, issued statements Friday responding to Democratic leader Nan Rich’s letter calling for the federal government to reject proposed changes to the state’s Medicaid program. # Negron, one of the primary architects of the legislation, advanced two arguments he has made in the past: that the changes are necessary to put a lid on the program’s rising costs and free up budgetary room for other priorities ( like education ), and that the statewide package does not simply expand a five-county pilot program, which critics have called a failure

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that initial jobless claims fell by the largest amount in two months. Still, they remain high -- at

So the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force has decided that about 50 people ought to be held indefinitely without charge. What’s the remedy to for

If there were any lingering doubts that Sen. John McCain has completely -- and enthusiastically -- abandoned his frequent pledge to run an honorable campaign,

Following this morning’s White House jobs meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a

Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is perhaps the barometric view here. Mullen said the heads of the military services did not yet

Public Policy Polling’s latest presidential trial heat shows a lot of variance with the Fox News poll I cited yesterday. Mike Huckabee leads President Obama by

The New Mexico Independent’s Marjorie Childress attended a town hall meeting yesterday in Albuquerque featuring Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) -- a member of the

In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn’t regret the substance of any

ABC News reports that the task force President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder empaneled to decide the venue for charging each remaining Guantanamo Bay

The F-22 fight notwithstanding, David Axe reports that a recent Air Force document on the future of the service’s investment in unmanned aircraft entertains the

In 2009, Wall Street gave out $20 billion in bonuses. Here’s how that money could have been spent instead. The Senate is sitting on 290 bills the House has

Maybe it was the allusion to chickenman. Maybe it was simply bad communication.

The latest in high-minded criticism from National Review’s in-house conspiracy theorist Andy McCarthy. He’s infuriated because Jennifer Daskal from Human Rights

Last week’s Government Accountability Office report on the trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexico has inspired quite a backlash from gun enthusiasts who contend

Via Danger Room, it appears the Blackwater private security company has gone in for a bit of cynical rebranding: Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its

Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, a Democratic national-security eminence certain to have the new administration’s ear, kicks off a panel on

A group whose founding members include powerhouses in Texas higher education announced its formation in the wake of controversies over university proposals

So this is what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) meant when he said he was canceling the week-long Columbus Day recess to work on health care reform.