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The Ingham County Board of Commissioners are debating internally two resolutions which they think will address a “dysfunctional” road commission. The first proposal, introduced by Republicans who are a minority on the board, would demand the resignation of Shirley Rogers, the Road Commission chairperson. A second proposal, introduced by Democratic Commission Chair Mark Grebner, would demand the resignation of all five members of the Road Commission, reports the Lansing State Journal

Critics of the media will allege that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have both betrayed their slants today, publishing stories about the U.S.

Add Randy Dingus to the growing list of Massey miners who have come forward in recent weeks with allegations that the Virginia-based company prioritized coal

Today, the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, headed by Elizabeth Warren, is holding a set of hearings on failed

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials shot down the idea of communities opting out of an ICE program, law enforcement leaders in Santa Clara,

Yesterday, birther lawyer Orly Taitz printed a letter from Gary Lima of Greenbrier, claiming that a Republican congressional candidate in Tennessee’s 6th

I didn’t get a substantive response from the National Counterterrorism Center or its director, Michael Leiter, to yesterday’s Senate report singling it out for

This story is the eighth in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents. After nearly seven years of costly strategic ignorance in the U.S. wars in Iraq

A coalition of major environmental groups was planning a big rally outside the Capitol at noon on Thursday to encourage Congress to pass a climate and energy

To the surprise of no one, the House approved sweeping reforms to the credit card industry Thursday, including provisions banning retroactive rate increases,

To follow up on my earlier post about Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) refusal to hold hearings on the torture memos as chair of the Judiciary Committee, we now learn,

Pollution in the St.

As you’ve read, yesterday the U.N. mission in Afghanistan abruptly fired its deputy director for political affairs, Peter Galbraith, the longtime American

Anyone following the twists and turns of the increasingly cacophonous torture debate knows by now that one way the Office of Legal Counsel justified its many

Nothing shocking here. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the chamber floor this morning to decry the Democrats’ $848 billion health reform

With a Republican National Committee lawyer calling on the Federal Elections Commission to investigate the Obama campaign for accepting contributions in excess

Via Dana Goldstein, Ali Gharib makes the stellar point that what’s going on in Iran is reaffirmation of the Islamic Revolution, not a repudiation of it. Kate

The agency recently approved 42 of 48 Appalachian mining projects, raising questions about the extent to which EPA will prioritize water over industry.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a symbol of failed diplomacy in Iraq. Last year the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform documented

I’m not surprised that there’s a grassroots Website urging the selection of physician and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as the next secretary of health and

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who’s mounting a somewhat under-covered Senate campaign in 2010, got the crowd on his side at the Value Voter Summit by mocking former