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The Miami Herald reported over the weekend that supervisors of elections in the five Florida counties covered by the Voting Rights Act have refused to recognize the sweeping changes to state election laws recently signed by Gov. Rick Scott until the changes are cleared by the U.S.

Mike Huckabee is a master at using the clever quip to deflect tough questions. He toys with criticisms of his “fair tax” policy; at times he ignores

Deep into the Senate Finance Committee’s marathon debate over health care reform, Democrats Thursday night killed a GOP proposal that would have forced legal

Gay couples in California are being told to put their planned celebrations on ice, once again. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit granted opponents

A few more points worth noting about the new Military Commissions Act amendments passed by Congress yesterday: Just as the House bill circulating earlier did,

One of the donut holes in last week’s testimony from Justice and Defense Department officials about the Obama administration’s planning for military commissions

To hear the Bush administration promote its $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s ailing financial institutions, the impression created is one of dire

The strategy to rally all the Senate Democrats behind a public plan hit a brick wall on Tuesday, after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) announced his intention to

While most news channels focused on Sen. John McCain’s big night on Thursday, it was a battle of the B.O.s on Fox News. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic

The powerful special envoy fielded questions about what the Obama administration considers success in Afghanistan.

Well, at least one banking executive is personally feeling the pain of the foreclosure crisis: Wells Fargo has fired a top employee who moved into a foreclosed

The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) may have spent the last eight years pushing for the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that Minnesotans will vote on in November, but since its founding, the group has fought to uphold antiquated laws against homosexuality and sodomy that were often used against LGBT people. Formed as Coalition of Concerned Christians The Minnesota Family Council got its start in 1982 as a group of conservative Christians concerned that laws criminalizing gays and lesbians would be overturned. “I believe we need to be true to our roots and let who we are grow out of that.

The White House announced today that, in addition to President Obama visiting New Orleans on Aug. 29, a number of administration officials will travel

The situation of women, blacks and Hispanic workers who are employed, unemployed or looking for jobs in the U.S. merits a closer look. The U.S. Bureau of Labor

State Sen.

Forgive me for getting a bit self-indulgent here, but I feel like I should reply to Juan Cole’s post saying Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s remarks yesterday

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn’t normally pass up an opportunity to comment on Iran, which makes his Twitter feed pretty jarring right now. He has had

I noted in yesterday’s story about Tea Party activists reading Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals that most of the people who buy the book on Amazon are

The notorious Amity Shlaes, the Bloomberg scribe who drives liberals around the bend with her thinly sourced argument that the New Deal was a failure, has

Sensing vulnerability in Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest poll numbers, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is launching over a million dollars

In case anyone was not yet completely convinced of the difficulty facing Sen. John McCain in his quest for 270 electoral votes, Politico’s Mike Allen reports

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said not to read too much into it, but the August document listing steps for communities to opt out of the