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Over at The New Republic, Noam Scheiber counts the votes for Elizabeth Warren, the current head of the Congressional Oversight Panel over the Troubled Asset

In its latest appeal for donations, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is calling on supporters to fund a new campaign that targets U.S. Rep. Ileana

According to The Hotline’s latest whip count, Michael Steele continues to fall behind former Wisconsin GOP chair Reince Priebus in his bid to maintain his

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to take a second look at the case of a Canadian citizen interrogated by the U.S. in Syria.

The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in

The highway connecting Tampa, Lakeland, Daytona Beach and Orlando may be the most important political real estate in the nation because it holds the key to the biggest chunk of independent voters in the biggest of all battleground states. These voters’ anxieties and financial troubles have now pushed the Democratic nominee ahead of his Republican rival in the polls there.

Amid fears that Switzerland might come to an agreement with the United States on banking privacy and tax evasion disclosures, Credit Suisse issued a report

Ken Vogel has a revealing scoop on the Republican Party’s effort to co-opt Tea Party activists -- something anathema to a few activists, something that other

The SAVE Dade logo (Pic via sflchronicle.com) SAVE Dade, a Miami-based LGBT rights group, says it has been “tremendously negatively impacted” by the state’s new voting law, which created new restrictions on third party voter registration. SAVE Dade is one of many advocacy groups in the state that used to run voter registration drives before elections to promote civic engagement. But a new law passed this year has installed new limitations on third-party voter registration drives, and also levies financial penalties on groups that violate those rules. The law also created a shortened “shelf life” for signatures collected for ballot initiatives, placed new restrictions on voters changing their registered addresses on election day, and reduced the number of early voting days

Another banner supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement appeared over Interstate 235 near downtown Des Moines on Monday morning, at least the third such “banner drops” seen in the last month over the major thoroughfare. A member of Occupy Des Moines claimed responsibility for the banners last month, and at that point said more “drops” would be done. Today’s banner on a walkway spanning the roadway simply read “Occupy.” The group in mid-October placed a banner reading “www.occupydsm.org” on a bike trail across I-235 between 42nd Street and Polk Boulevard

Laura Rozen publishes an email that National Intelligence Committee Non-Chairman Chas Freeman sent out in response to his resignation: The libels on me and

WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh has a lot of fun with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s report on new right-wing extremist groups, calling up some of the leaders

As a postscript to yesterday’s fact-check of Marc Thiessen, a former Bush White House speechwriter and torture proponent, notice how Thiessen, appearing on

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) The Republican Party of Sarasota County will host its 2011 “Statesman of the Year” dinner later this month, at which the party will honor Mississippi Gov. — and once-rumored presidential contender — Haley Barbour.

A single mother is in the media spotlight after joking to Obama that he is a hottie, with a smokin’ little body. Sarah Palin will be the top speaker at the

Two weeks before the November 8 election, Ohio voters seem poised to stomp the aggressive collective-bargaining-curbing law, Senate Bill 5, that has unified

Ann Coulter’s speeches at CPAC are simultaneously the least surprising and the most headline-ready parts of the conference. Every year, the lines to get into

Human Rights First has just released a new report updating its previous study of criminal terrorism cases prosecuted since the early 1990s. Once again, it

Conservatism and activism often go hand-in-hand in the Supreme Court. Ben Nelson’s constituents think it’s okay to tax the rich for health care, but he

WEST DES MOINES — About 100 people gathered outside the Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday evening to express their displeasure with Wisconsin Gov.

Wow oh wow oh wow. Former Department of Justice official and torture memo author John Yoo will be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday to promote his

Here’s a strange saga, even for a campaign year. It seems that over the weekend officials with the Arizona Democratic Party discovered a credit card