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A big statement from the senior senator from Arizona, who famously floundered at the start of the financial crisis in September 2008 by -- among other things --

Republicans in the Minnesota House are pushing legislation that would ban the Affordable Care Act from being implemented in the state under the grounds that it violates the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The bill calls the law “unconstitutional,” declares it “void” in Minnesota and directs all state agencies to halt implementation of any aspect of health care reform

After going back and forth with Feith -- in which Feith conceded there were indeed abuses in Defense Dept. detention and interrogation operations -- Rep.

From the department of irony comes this Roll Call story indicating that Senate Republicans -- whose objections to a one-month extension of the filing deadline

The Senate Judiciary Committee vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate has been postponed after Sen. Arlen Specter

While some Detroit-area ministers are actively participating in this weekend’s prayer rally at Ford Field, others are speaking out against the rally as a result of some of the anti-Muslim and extremist views of the rally’s organizers. Rev. Charles Williams II, Pastor of Detroit’s Historic King Solomon Baptist Church and a member of People For the American Way’s African American Ministers in Action , urged people of faith to reject the divisive and politically charged extremism of The Call, and to join together in prayer for a future that lifts up all the people of Michigan, regardless of faith and ethnicity

President of the Senate of College Councils Carisa Neitsche penned a column in the UT student newspaper today demanding a more thoughtful response from UT

The Associated Press reports the federal government is telling gun sellers in border states that they must report anyone who has purchased two high-powered rifles within a five day period. The guidelines affect New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Texas

Yesterday afternoon, House and Senate Democrats reconciling the two versions of financial regulatory reform announced a compromise on debit card fees -- an

A Pew Hispanic Center report about the country-of-origin of Hispanics in 30 U.S. metropolitan areas indicates that Hispanics of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin or descent remain the nation’s three largest Hispanic groups, but diversity within the Latino community is increasing

Sadly, I missed this moment from the CPAC main stage, from Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media: At least in the 1980s, we knew that our president was born in

No one loved the internet rules written by the Federal Communications Commission last year that sought to safeguard the free-flowing egalitarian quality of the internet, where communication-industry giants don’t get to decide which information streams to users and at what speed. One side thought the rules were overreaching socialism and the other thought they were riven with the kind of loopholes corporate interests could wiggle through when it came time to assert control

Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy review is absolutely scathing in its assessment of the Afghan government. It raises the effect of its corruption

So he tells The New York Times. This renders inoperative something I said to Jezebel’s Megan Carpentier this morning. We’ll see how this plays out in practice,

Detroit has more than 100,000 vacant properties, and as widespread unemployment and home foreclosure make it harder for people to pay for housing, many are moving into abandoned homes as squatters. The Detroit News reports that these illicit living arrangements sometimes bother neighbors, though squatters may actually improve neighborhoods by maintaining buildings that might otherwise be torn down for scrap. Either way, it seems there’s not much local authorities can do about squatting