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As Annie just reported, the House just passed a state aid bill that provides $16.1 billion in Medicaid funding and $10 billion to pay teachers’ salaries, much

It’s angry Tea Party town hall month in America and, in Arizona yesterday, Senator John McCain got a taste of the kind of crazy that colored Colorado’s gubernatorial race last year.

About 25 people gathered Thursday afternoon in front of the Bank of America building in downtown Des Moines for a “jobs not cuts” rally, showing support for the occupy movement, President Obama’s jobs bill and safety net programs. The rally, organized by Moveon.org and the AFL-CIO, said Bank of America has become a symbol of greed.

It’s no secret that many within the McCain campaign are not happy with the volume and tone of what they regard as the media’s fawning coverage of Sen. Barack

One of the ideas for financial regulatory reform that President Barack Obama will outline today is the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency,

UPDATE*: Aug. 8, 2011, 2 p.m. EST The Summer of Mercy 2.0 ended Monday morning with a final protest in front of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in

Several demonstrations and candlelight vigils are taking place Thursday evening in memory of a 19-year-old Waterloo man who died over the weekend following a violent attack. Marcellus Richard Andrews (Photo: Facebook) Marcellus Andrews, of Waterloo, was taken off life support Saturday and officially pronounced dead on Sunday. In the early morning hours of Friday, he was part of a violent brawl that witnesses described as beginning with anti-gay slurs.

A smart piece in The New York Times on Sunday noted that the Pentagon is rethinking its defense posture that prepares for fighting two wars at the same time, a

In an interview today with MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell, former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein agreed with former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger’s

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board’s much-anticipated vote on a custom license plate featuring the Confederate flag wasn’t quite the nail-biter it had

According to critics of laws forcing employers to pay women wages equal to those of men, government-enforced wage equity is an unfair burden on employers and

Former Michigan GOP chief Saul Anuzis has made it official: He is going to challenge Michael Steele for the right to run the Republican Party. Anuzis told

This morning, ADP, a payroll processing firm, put out its latest employment report. It isn’t good. Between July and August, private employers shed an estimated

Ben Smith previewed the latest conservative manifesto-cum-PR-event launching in the run-up to CPAC, and the text is after the jump. RightWingWatch has a good

Legislators and social conservative activists misused the state’s judicial retention elections in order to attack judges that upheld the rights of same-sex couples, several people familiar with the process say, and are now misusing the another process by pushing to impeach other judges from the bench.

Nothing surprising here. Here’s the statement in full: The President has said repeatedly that he wants to look forward, not back, and the President agrees with

A study by an Oregon fair-housing audit firm detailing widespread housing discrimination in Portland has compelled Oregon lawmakers to put pressure on the state

Here’s some good news for the long-term unemployed poised to exhaust their jobless benefits in the midst of Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) one-man stand against a

<p>Marty Lederman has a <a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/01/real-cia-tapes-scandal-that-everyone-is.html">typically excellent

When the Republican National Committee launched the new version of GOP.com, Zachary Roth noticed that Michael Zak, an author and speaker who argues that the

The coal industry just lost another one. Alliant Energy announced it is canceling a proposed $1.8 billion power plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Despite new