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“The justice of man is rot,” which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon.

The Iowa Independent has a big scoop: The suspect in the fatal shooting of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Kansas was an occasional contributor to a

My friend Steve Gordon posts Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Environment Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, a nine-page

Democrats face tough task of winning over moderates in an election year.

Disturbing news from along the border: Bodies of 72 people presumed to be trying to cross to the U.S. were found Tuesday in a mass grave in northern Mexico.

For a few months, I’ve been following the efforts of the unemployed -- specifically the long-term unemployed, and especially the 99ers, who have exhausted the

The governor-turned-Fox News pundit tells Greta Van Susteren that she’s still headlining the embattled National Tea Party Convention next week. Oh, you betcha

AMES — Tensions reached their apex Thursday night during the Fox News/Washington Examiner GOP presidential debate, sending Republican enthusiasm through the roof with less than 48 hours until the Ames Straw Poll gates open Saturday. Debate topics were typical: conflict in the Middle East, American’s floundering economy, immigration, states’ rights, and of course, hot button social issues

Reforming faculty tenure remains a major plank in many plans for the future of Texas’ public universities, from the seven breakthrough solutions backed, until

Via ThinkProgress, this hot new New York Review of Books piece by Specter couldn’t possibly go over well with the GOP caucus: First, I intend to introduce

When Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) chose to relinquish his role in the Republican House leadership for the next session of Congress, the political punditry knew that

Politico’s spin-crunching machine busts a gear in this analysis of what Republicans are saying about Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) withdrawal of his nomination for

Moments before members of the Iowa House voted to institute new criminal penalties for those involved in undercover sting operations at agricultural facilities, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin cautioned that such penalties don’t appear to be in the public’s best interest

With 99 days to the launch of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the congressional pressure on the Bush administration to boycott the games over China’s many

A pollution warning sign along the Caloosahatchee River (Pic by Florida Water Coalition) Testifying on behalf of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (aka DACS) yesterday, Rich Budell, director of the Office of Agricultural Water Policy, said that a set of federally mandated water pollution standards would have a “devastating” impact on the Florida economy. Environmentalists say the EPA’s numeric nutrient criteria would help alleviate algal blooms and fish kills that overtake many state waterways. Affected industries, however, see it differently — arguing that the cost of the criteria would far outweigh the benefits.

Republicans just successfully filibustered a defense authorization bill, killing an effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to attach the DREAM Act and a

While younger Republicans are hard at work trying to figure out how to make their party viable in a post-Bush political landscape, some older members of the

One interesting detail in this morning’s jobs report: The number of workers out of a job for more than six months declined by about 600,000. Moreover, the