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The Los Angeles Times reported today that a California agency is set to approve renewable energy standard that is significantly more stringent than the one

If conservatives are lucky, Dijongate will be the nadir of opposition to Barack Obama’s presidency. As far as I can tell, the idea that Americans should take

This morning’s Senate panel hearing on the wide discrepancy between sentencing for crack and powder cocaine-related crimes offered the Obama administration its

Too far-fetched for even the likes of Rush Limbaugh to discuss as anything but the punchline to a joke, “birtherism” has gained 9/11 truther-like staying

Yesterday, Elizabeth Warren, newly named as an adviser to the White House and Treasury Department on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, made her debut.

The oil industry is pushing back against new restrictions on environmental waivers for offshore oil and natural gas projects. In a statement, American

Shirley Sherrod doesn’t want an Agriculture Department job. Blago attempts to show Jon Stewart he’s not a sociopath. Mitt Romney’s advisers hope he’ll be

For a domestic audience, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is arguably awkward. Concern-troll Mickey Kaus is already editorializing that he should turn it

Sen. Barack Obama’s emphatic denunciation of his former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., for a series of comments the reverend made during a sort of media

The Obama administration unveiled the details of its new housing rescue plan today, and Bloomberg has some of the specifics: The initiative, first announced on

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider legislation designed to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system by creating a commission to

Republicans (see here) are pushing a CNN poll that has opposition to health care reform legislation running to 59 percent. Two things I noticed, however, that

I’m a little tired of The Undecideds, The Swing Voters and all those People In The Middle -- but they do decide elections after the rest of us have made our

For the first time in 12 years, there is a new leader at the helm of Michigan’s AFL-CIO union as outgoing President Mark Gaffney is replaced by Karla Swift.

You know an op-ed’s going to be good when it starts out like this: FOR seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the

Last week, Pakistani President Asif Al Zardari chatted up Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations. By all accounts he didn’t even get her

In November of 1999, when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation deregulating the finance industry, The New York Times described part of the

The Florida Department of Children and Families testified before a state House committee Tuesday about the implementation of new drug screening requirements placed on Temporary Assistance for Need Families (aka TANF) applicants. So far, the department reports that about 2.7 percent of temporary assistance applicants were denied because they tested positive for illegal drug use. Pete Digre, who briefed the committee on behalf of the department, said that “very, very few people are testing positive.” Digre told the committee that one of the more interesting numbers the department has seen so far was the 563 applicants who started an application but failed to “show up” for the drug test. Some members of the committee alluded to the possibility that this meant the law was deterring drug users from applying for cash assistance

Some blunt talk in a local news interview from Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), tying in to my story from last night on how Republicans are trying to make Ted Kennedy’s

Members of Congress jockey to take credit for consumer-friendly legislation, though the Fed already applied the same rules.

Mortgage lenders aren’t selling subprime loans much anymore, but apparently the credit rating agencies that certified them as safe and profitable investments