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Here’s a head-scratching quote from today’s Politico piece on how Republicans struggle to deal with conspiracy theorists who don’t think Barack Obama is a

At today’s just-begun Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), the committee chairman, subtly implored the Obama

A new report shows the state’s general fund took in $5.8 billion in the fiscal year that ended in July, $319.8 million or 5.8 percent more than in the previous fiscal year. The report from the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency notes that total is $45.5 million more than projected by the Revenue Estimating Conference for fiscal year 2011. The REC in March estimated a similar increase in general fund revenue for the current fiscal year: $309.6 million, pushing total revenues from $5.8 billion to $6.12 billion

A round-up report for 2011 found that last year was one of the worst for reproductive health and reproductive rights across the country. The Guttmacher Institute reports that a record-setting “1,100 reproductive health and rights-related provisions” were introduced by state legislators last year

Last week, my piece on the Federal Election Commission noted that despite the fact that three of the six members of the commission were serving well beyond

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes today that an energy bill with a cap on carbon emissions, even a scaled-down cap on the power sector, is dead. Klein

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin sampling Saginaw Township’s West Michigan Park next week to determine how much dioxin was deposited in the Tittabawassee floodplain during recent flooding. Dioxin, a highly toxic and carcinogenic byproduct of combustion and chemical manufacturing, has spread from Dow Chemical’s Midland plant 52 miles downstream through the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers and into Lake Huron.

Andrew Breitbart (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Tea party favorite Andrew Breitbart and ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief are scheduled to speak at a breakfast hosted by Americans for Prosperity’s Florida chapter this Friday in Orlando. Breibart will also be taking part in a panel discussion with several Florida officials during Presidency 5, organized by the Republican Party of Florida. “Andrew Breitbart has undeniably proven the importance online activism and investigative journalism plays in influencing narratives in the media,” said Americans for Prosperity’s Slade O’Brien in a press release

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In the annual St. Cloud State University Survey , 55 percent of Minnesotans surveyed say the state is on the wrong track, down one percent from last year.

Ben Bernanke is no Oracle at Delphi, but traders still act like all this banking stuff is very opaque.

Although President Barack Obama ‘s joint address was billed as a proposal roll-out for the American economy and unemployment, there was a underlying theme of warning to those in Washington that everyday citizens are growing tired of partisan politics, bickering and stalemates. It remains unclear if the plan or the caution found favor.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel today released another slew of previously-classified legal memos, setting forth the department’s justifications

This poll by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance in partnership with Pajamas Media doesn’t ask much that hasn’t appeared on other

How hard is it to watch a clip of an interview? Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made the following observation

Gov. Rick Snyder tried to put a positive spin on the new Michigan law that reduces the length of state unemployment benefits from 26 to 20 weeks — the lowest in the nation.

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho quickly poured cold water on birther lawyer Orly Taitz’s brag that Michael Steele had accepted her friend

Now that we’ve noted Adolfo Carrion’s interest in the job of secretary of Housing and Urban Development, we should also point out that in the housing world,

The report, issued by the Center for American Progress, a group heavily involved in the transition, recommends that the Obama administration’s defense policy break from the last eight years and include a clear set of priorities.

Another good point made by TWI’s Daphne Eviatar and Josh Marshall, who sums it up well. From TPM: Senate Republicans are following this course for three key

It was an odd but refreshing spectacle, to see U.S.-based human rights lawyers arguing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States