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The national buzz on Iowa’s upcoming special election in Senate District 18 may be focused on the future of civil marriage, but you’d never know it from the candidate outreach to local residents. “Better jobs

TWI has acquired the text of a congressional resolution that may be introduced in the next few days condemning the findings of U.N. investigator Richard

It’s got to be this one from OurCountryDeservesBetter PAC. It cites Obama’s own doctor as an opponent of President Obama’s health care plan, even though Dr.

This weekend, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told Think Progress that Republicans are purposefully slowing down the legislative pace and purposefully blocking

This is interesting. A group of thousands of scientists, engineers and science buffs called Science Debate 2008 got Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain to answer 14

Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund released a report on the world economy, revising upward its predictions for U.S. economic growth while lowering its

Some more details following yesterday’s story about the National Security Agency looking for a new top lawyer. As it turns out, the super-secret surveillance

In a week that has raised the specter of ballots that may have been wrongfully rejected, lost and, on Tuesday, found, challenged ballots -- those on which

LANSING, Mich--On the campaign trail there are announcements and then there are announcements. Obama chose to unveil the details of his energy plan here--the

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a major report on April’s jobs numbers. The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9

Cesar, a construction worker who asked that we not use his last name, tells The Florida Independent he has not been paid after working eight weeks at a construction project in the Broward County city of Sunrise. He says at least 50 workers who work 10 hours or more a day on this project have not received their wages for anywhere from three weeks to two months.

Josh Gerstein at Politico puts together something that’s been clear for months: As long as the Obama administration can delay announcing a final disposition for

Now that Sen. Ted Stevens is out of the Senate, nixing a chance for a special election in Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin might be eyeing another potential seat --

The breakdowns of the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that asked 2,400 people about where they believe the president was born are revealing. As Steve Benen and

Spanish prosecutors have decided to go ahead with a criminal investigation of the six senior lawyers -- including former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Dear Tea Partiers, I’d like to address you in good faith for a moment. I noticed today you had some strong feelings about what you consider to be

President Obama made six recess appointments Wednesday, allowing officials to bypass Senate confirmation to serve for approximately one year. One of those

The caught-on-tape run-in with Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) is not his first unpleasant encounter. A coalition of Tea Party groups is urging sponsors to

As if there weren’t enough news going on already, Washington Mutual goes belly up in the largest bank failure in U.S. history, and JP Morgan Chase buys up all

The presidential exploratory campaign for former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, is announcing new additions to its Iowa and New Hampshire teams.

Gov. Susana Martinez, Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, and Rep.

This morning, I recapped the current legislative efforts to further extend unemployment benefits and aid the millions who have been out of work for more than

Yesterday I highlighted the departure of Gen. William Wallace from the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine command as an example of the end of the Rumsfeld era --