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The stock market continued its cliff diving today, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor’s 500 Index closing at their lowest levels

As Daphne blogged earlier today, Dawn Johnsen of Indiana University Law School is going to helm the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legal Counsel, a crucial position

The Tea Party movement seems to have quieted down as Republicans found a more grippable political issue with Guantanamo Bay. Nonetheless, motivational speaker

Yes, already. Cityview, a Des Moines alt-weekly, talks to Hawkeye State Republicans about the prospects for 2012 GOP candidates. Former Mitt Romney state

As the very, very small chance of a late upset vanishes in NY-23, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is lashing out and accusing ACORN, the unions and

The CIA has been saying it briefed the leadership of the Congressional intelligence committees in 2002 about the enhanced interrogation techniques used on

Spencer Ackerman has an interesting read up this morning on a forthcoming handbook meant to help Washington policy-makers decide whether to intervene in the

An amusing, rubber-and-glue comment from Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) in a perceptive Glenn Thrush and Marin Cogan piece (one of several from the past 72 hours)

As a reminder that coal mining accidents are not peculiar to either West Virginia or Massey Energy, two miners in Western Kentucky have gone missing after the

The state’s 12 budget bills made their way through the Legislature Tuesday night as Gov. Mark Dayton waited to sign them, ending the 20-day-old state government shutdown.

Make tomorrow the second time President Obama will talk to Gen. Stanley McChrystal since McChrystal took command in Afghanistan. The White House just announced

Conservative policy group Americans United for Life’s stated plans to help defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) one state at a time were

ProPublica has a new report that documents the minimal regulations in place for the vast network of gas pipelines that crisscrosses the United States. The system that regulates natural gas pipelines is complex and, critics contend, lax

Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale (Pic by Debra Todd, via Facebook) Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, does not like the fact that a strong majority of Americans disapproves of Congress and is pinning the blame on Republicans

Following up on yesterday’s post about China’s disinclination to cross the U.S. and Russia at the United Nations Security Council on Iran sanctions, it looks

The new legal adviser to the State Department (on a 62-35 vote) sent this message to a group of supporters on Facebook: My dear friends: Earlier today, the

The Project on Government Oversight has just learned that one of its sources for exposing apparent acts of physical and sexual harassment by a State Department

It has been 44 days since Congress let federally extended unemployment benefits lapse for 300,000 workers per week. Now, more than 2.1 million have lost the

NPR’s Howard Berkes and Frank Langfitt have spent weeks on the ground in southern West Virginia, the site of last month’s deadly blast at Massey’s Upper Big

Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office just announced that a cloture vote for Harold Koh’s nomination for State Department legal adviser is scheduled for 11 a.m.

With the Senate not exactly in a rush to pass a mortgage cramdown bill, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) is out with a report that

Why would the Obama administration, after having suspended the Bush military commissions that President Obama called an enormous failure, now be pushing to

Today, the Labor Department released its April survey of unemployment in 372 metropolitan areas across the United States. And it is a very good report: The rate