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Counties across Colorado are gearing up for the next major oil and gas boom, scrambling to draft local regulations for everything from visual impacts to physical setbacks of drilling equipment.

The headline of a just-released Senate Republican Policy Committee document on what to do with Guantanamo Bay detainees: Meet Your New Neighbor, Khalid Sheikh

I was on the phone during Bob Gates’ first presser since being reappointed as defense secretary by President-elect Obama, but my man Matt DeLong kept me covered

Charles Johnson catches the Tea Party activist with the infamous N-word sign getting taken seriously by The Washington Times, which quotes him as a founder of

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has released a letter she sent to President Obama and Attorney

This weekend, Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that it was too soon to say whether the Obama administration might revive

As someone who’s lived almost my entire life in Virginia, this election means a great deal to me, as it does to most voters in the state. For the first time

There’s good reason to be confused about the Labor Department’s latest unemployment figures, which showed that the nation’s jobless numbers rose by 11,000 last

Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park (right) (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) Progress Florida has launched a new petition calling for Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon to “drop” his chamber’s participation in legal action targeting Amendment 6, one of the two popular Fair Districts measures passed by Florida voters last fall.

The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) acknowledged today that, in order for people to access the full 20 weeks of additional jobless benefits

The heads of the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition -- Govs. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) and Don Carcieri (R-R.I.) -- today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry

Michael Linden and Heather Boushey from the Center for American Progress take a close look at the recently released census data, and find income inequality

Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report

This afternoon’s joint White House appearance between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a pretty low-key affair, as predicted.

The Hill reports that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has decided to attend the Labor Day presidential forum in Columbia, S.C., hosted by Sen. Jim DeMint

Anti-war activists who threw a pie at Sen. Carl Levin during a Big Rapids event in 2010 have been sentenced to 30 days in federal prison

Sarah Palin may think an Iran sanctions package is off the Obama administration’s agenda, but -- quelle surprise -- it appears that the opposite is occurring.

Companies see Massey getting away with things, so they start doing those things themselves, said environmental activist Maria Gunnoe.

There is a thing called thoughtful skepticism, but this release from the Republican Study Committee, condemning the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions

Dana Goldstein reports on the negotiations behind the anti-abortion rights ad that Focus on the Family bought during the Super Bowl on CBS. Quietly, the network

UPDATE: Oct. 6 Amended with a correction. A new congressional proposal to funnel federal grant money from sex-education programs that instruct in pregnancy and

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) went forward with a resolution calling for an end to the Afghanistan war yesterday. Predictably, it earned massive and bipartisan

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