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Yesterday’s post about the freerepublic.com habits of Maj. Stefan Cook was re-posted at the site, where it drew (as of right now) 145 comments. From

After announcing Wednesday that the “smoking jalapenno ” had been found on a farm in Mexico, witnesses at a hearing Thursday continued to dance around the

A group of local pastors and the Lansing branch of the NAACP held a press conference today inside a Lansing courthouse to raise some serious questions about the fatal shooting of a 17 year-old girl in March by a Lansing police officer. The shooting took place in the early morning hours of March 14th at a South Lansing Bank of America

Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as

A majority of South Carolina Democratic Party’s executive committee voted Thursday night to reject a protest against the results of the state’s Senate primary,

One version of a proposed 500-plus-mile water pipeline from southwestern Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range was dealt a blow by a federal regulatory agency that found the application deficient on Wednesday. The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) sent a letter to Fort Collins businessman Aaron Million requesting more information within a month, but FERC officials also appeared to have serious jurisdictional questions. “Because the Commission would only have jurisdiction with regard to the proposed hydroelectric development, which is only one component of the proposed 501-mile-long water supply pipeline project, construction of substantial parts of the overall project may require permits from other federal agencies,” FERC officials wrote.

Per my earlier post explaining the growing crisis of vacant homes piling up around the country, here’s one of the best explanations for why we should be alarmed

The senator-cum-radio host, who has one of the most smart-aleck twitter feeds in conservative politics, makes fun of the Secretary of Homeland Security’s tennis

New York Republican Congressman Peter King said the point of the controversial Homeland Security Committee “Islamic radicalization” hearings he is holding this week is to discover how Muslim Americans can help fight terrorism. He got an answer from Keith Ellison, a Muslim Representative from Minnesota, who broke down this morning and sobbed during testimony.

For a moment, leave aside the legal questions about the Obama administration’s apparent decision that it possesses the legal authority to order the

Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., on Tuesday urged the head of the U.S

While President Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review gets underway in earnest, several Afghan ministers are on their way to Washington for meetings with

Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration has ignored its own internal regulation and stopped requiring manufacturers of medical devices – such as

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that the department would extend temporary immigration protections for an additional eighteen months for Haitians currently residing in the United States. # In a press release Napolitano announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti beneficiaries effective July 23, 2011 and for an additional 18 months.

TPM reports that city records from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, indicate that there is more to the story of her pay cut. On the

In what appears to be an attempt to gin up an October Surprise, the McCain campaign teamed up with the American Conservative Union today to make a campaign

Hoping to nullify the Supreme Court’s recent decision freeing corporations to spend infinitely on federal elections, Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and John

This morning, Kevin Drum flagged the UCLA Anderson Forecast, a quarterly release on national and California economic conditions. Ed Leamer, the head of the

It might be this, from Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), on why he’s still wavering on the Senate race that he ruled out last year. o do that, I’d have to give up the

Here’s a portion of a press release issued by Said Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Washington, to mark the recent rise in U.S. military fatalities in his

David Rivkin and Lee Casey are an op-ed-writing team of former GOP legal officials who defend practically every terrorism-related policy pushed by the Bush