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Colby Hall has the scoop: Mediaite has learned that leading center-right web site Hot Air has been acquired by Salem Communications for an undisclosed sum.

Minnesota’s unemployment rate remained at 7.2 percent, slightly less than the nation’s average of 9.1 percent, according to data released by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Thursday.

On the surface, Chicago has gone through a number of changes in the past year -- a new mayor, a renamed Sears Tower and a fresh coat of paint for the coming

The Obama campaign’s Internet operation knows how to meet the moment. Sensing some irrational exuberance from supporters, which can stoke complacency, Obama’s

While Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe spoke to a mostly-full Marriott Ballroom, a buzz circulated among event organizers: Trust us, you should be there. When

The new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia has two pieces of bad news for Democrats. The obvious one: In the gubernatorial race, State Sen. Creigh Deeds

Mudslinging about undisclosed campaign donors and the potential for foreign interference reached a new pitch yesterday in an already surprisingly heated

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster on the defense authorization bill, which some senators have threatened to

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) scored a victory in the annual CPAC straw poll, besting nine other Republicans in a vote taken by around 2,395 attendees -- around 25

After failing to pass an extension of unemployment benefits earlier this week, the House tried again -- and succeeded, 270 to 153. The Senate will take up its

Following on the heels of Osama bin Laden’s latest diatribe, counterterrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann flags a new message from another al-Qaeda figure -- this one

The Personhood Florida logo (Pic via personhoodfl.com) Though support for “fetal personhood” measures seems to be growing across the country, an examination of the movement’s detractors reveals an interesting personhood foe — pro-lifers who say the effort to ban abortion could backfire. In some states, like Mississippi, personhood support is fairly widespread.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is having trouble raising money to pay down her huge campaign debt, and her former strategist Mark Penn is making the task far

Sam Stein at Huffington Post reports that a high-juiced Dem official says Jim Steinberg -- he of the quality bartending skills -- may become Hillary Rodham

Senate Democrats this morning tried to pass a 30-day extension of unemployment benefits (among other things), designed to allow the upper-chamber more time to

Activists are taking issue with a plan being negotiated between BP and the Obama administration for feeding the fund meant to compensate victims of the oil

Glenn Greenwald is doing some good work right now, following up on a post about the 2004 frenzy over MoveOn.org’s Bush in 30 Seconds contest -- when a few

Dave may be correct that the conservative rebuke to Keep America Safe has possibly peaked -- conservatives, after all, don’t have an interest in keeping their

Jon Stewart vs. Death Panel fearmonger. Scandals dogging New Mexico Democrats. Faking your own disappearance is a poor campaign strategy. It’s been

Nobel laureate Obama scales back his Middle East peace ambitions. To the consternation of some progressives, 2010 will be the year of fiscal

The GOP leadership worries about the Bachmann effect. Did Wells Fargo use prominent black figures to lure minorities into subprime loans? Mark Sanford has

That’s the question being asked by some government watchdogs in the wake of Rep. Charlie Rangel’s admonishment by the House Ethics Committee yesterday. The