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President Bush approved a right of conscience rule that allows medical workers to withhold treatment based on moral or religious beliefs. Democrats in Congress have several options to abandon it.

About 100 protesters gathered in Washington Friday in opposition to Obama’s economic agenda.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is pushing several laws that would impose voter restrictions and limitations, largely targeted at college

Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order today announcing the creation of Western Governors University Texas, a local partnership between WGU, a nonprofit

A burning sugar cane field (Pic by skatoolaki, via Flickr) A bill recently introduced by congressmen from Pennsylvania and Illinois could have a far-reaching impact on the U.S.

The Atlantic’s recent story The Next Slum is the kind of piece that gets people talking, as stories about urban life and the growth of suburbs and exurbs tend

Brian Frederick’s debunking of Andrew Malcolm’s claim that the approval gap between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin is shrinking is well done, although Malcolm’s

Monday’s news that President-elect Barack Obama and his advisers are planning to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and prosecute some of the prisoners

Marc Ambinder reads the text of a bill Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) intends to release today to clarify an organizational structure within the Department of

State budget director John Nixon says he thinks Michigan needs to rethink the earmarks used to fund public education. The Associated Press reports: “It’s not that I’m saying we need to cut the school aid fund … (but) a lot of this stuff was put in place 15, 20 years ago when Michigan looked totally different,” he said during a recent interview with The Associated Press. “We just need to strip things down and say, `This is the money we’re bringing in, this is where it’s going

Most of the criticism of the Department of Homeland Security’s guide to right-wing extremism has been along the lines of Pamela Gellar’s panic about the

A burning sugar cane field (Pic by skatoolaki, via Flickr) The 2012 Farm Bill will be hotly debated in Congress in coming months, as members look to cut spending from the federal budget. But recent reports detail a move to include major agricultural cuts in the deficit reduction plan to be developed by the so-called congressional “Super Committee,” as a way to ensure that legislators don’t make even more drastic cuts when they write the forthcoming farm legislation.

The Wall Street Journal files from that parallel universe today: Thanks to the financial crisis and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon must make

Investing in new education programs or hiring more teachers are worthy goals, but school construction is better suited for the stimulus package.

Ret. Adm. Dennis Blair just refused to answer a very easy question, asked by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.): Is waterboarding torture? I would say that there will

Two years ago, SurveyUSA polled a hypothetical head-to-head contest between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. Here’s the resulting electoral

Senator Richard Durbin , D-IL re-introduced on Wednesday the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, one day after President Obama’s speech on immigration reform. # The DREAM Act – proposed every year since 2000 – would grant people who entered the U.S.

When South Carolina’s legislative session resumes in January (just before the state hosts the “First in the South” Republican presidential debate), one of

Apropos of the Giuliani post, I see that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos added some post-facto fact-checking: Giuliani isn’t quite correct in his assessment. The

Via TPM. Sen. John McCain may have offered a sneak preview of his debate game plan this morning during an interview with an Orlando TV station. McCain