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Melanie Sloan, executive director of the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, just responded to the Senate Ethics Committee’s decision to clear

Byron York has responded to the criticism of his column on the white-black divide of presidential support by (yawn) crying that he’s been accused of

Via Andrew Sullivan, Marc Ambinder gives the Obama administration’s rationale for opposing a truth commission on torture: In the view, a commission would

Federal drug officials on Monday raided at least 10 medical marijuana operations in at least six Montana towns. From The Great Falls Tribune: Federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration were seen clearing hundreds of marijuana plants out of Montana Cannabis’ greenhouses Monday as local law enforcement officials stood by outside the building.

J.P. Freire, The American Spectator managing editor and an organizer of Washington, D.C.’s anti-spending April 15 Tea Party, announced this morning that

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal , who once considered pursuing his own White House bid, has handed his endorsement to Texas Gov. Rick Perry

For conservative Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), already struggling in her reelection bid this year, the news went from bad to worse today, as Arkansas’

The U.S. Census Bureau is expected to release the preliminary results of the 2010 census Tuesday morning and the result could mean a loss of one seat in the Michigan Congressional delegation. The number of seats in the U.S

I think the Obama administration is not likely to cede that authority back to the Congress. -- Dick Cheney, Dec. 15, 2008 What the cynics fail to

At a breakfast with reporters this morning, California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a question about whether she would filibuster Obama nominees

Martin Wisckol, who really can’t be disappointed about having such a fun story on his beat, reports that Orly Taitz has qualified for the ballot and will run

IQ test results are no longer enough to determine whether a convicted felon is fit for the death penalty, ruled the Tennessee Supreme Court Monday. Tennessee

Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has an important reason for Americans to vote Democratic this year: Accountability for war

The school voucher bill in Pennsylvania will likely have to wait until after lawmakers return from their two-month summer recess following an 11th-hour push to

Summer 2003 was the moment, roughly, when the insurgency in Iraq began to coalesce. (Naturally, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted no such thing was

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was an original sponsor of the DREAM Act, a bill to help some undocumented young people gain legal status through school or military

The Alaska Division of Elections said yesterday that it has more than 20,000 absentee and questioned ballots left to process, according to the Anchorage Daily

Pic by samantha celera, via Flickr Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a professor at Stetson University College of Law who teaches Election and Constitutional Law, told WMNF that Florida’s new voting laws could affect church efforts to get religious voters to the polls on the Sunday before election day. Among restrictions that include new regulations on third party voter registration drives, a shorter “shelf life” for signatures collected for ballot initiatives and new restrictions on voters changing their registered addresses on election day, the new law would also eliminate some early voting days such as the Sunday before election day.

FBI documents released today reveal the bureau had been gathering background information on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) pre-Senate dealings with

Via Greg Sargent, a Gallup poll finds 51 percent of the public wants an investigation into the use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects

On late Tuesday, a Sarah Palin retweet with favorable words for Delaware GOP Senate primary candidate Christine O’Donnell provoked a controversy: was a

So much for consistency in the application of the executive order on lobbying. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just sent out this statement lifting his hold on

On Florida’s northwest coast, the beaches are clear and the water clean, yet tourists are canceling vacations in droves, CNN Money reports. BP has capped the