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Ben Smith unearths a classic 11th-hour attack from Republicans against then-Democratic nominee for Congress Parker Griffith.

Zachary Roth has a short write-up on Michael Zak, the amateur historian who wrote the Heroes section of the new GOP.com, which focuses to a confusing degree

We finally had a sense they were listening, one advocate says of the White House shift in tone.

“They flew all the way here just to basically say, ‘We’re going back on our word,’” said an attorney briefed on the Tuesday meeting. “The whole entire thing is kind of a puppet show.”

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The military commission for Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen held here since 2002 and charged with killing a U.S. soldier, doesn’t get

The speed of this campaign, and the slow reaction of Democrats who considered the seat safe until one week ago, have let the Republican candidate blur the details.

Republicans insist voter fraud is rampant. To combat it, they are challenging laws in states that make it easier to vote. But some legal scholars and voting experts worry that this broad-based attack could lead to serious and continuing challenges to the legitimacy of the next president.

This isn’t going to please Democrats who, privately, describe Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s strategy in Massachusetts as running out the clock.

My profile of WorldNetDaily made the case that the conservative Website, which opinion-makers brush off as a conspiracy hub, is actually incredibly influential

So, OK, Saudi Arabia has a pretty impressive deradicalization program. But would deradicalization work in Pakistan? Doubtful, says Kenneth Ballen of an

From The Minnesota Independent: No Republican contenders in the 2010 gubernatorial contest — except environmental activist Leslie Davis — believe in global

Poor Rep. John Conyers. The House Judiciary Committee chairman has spent more than a year trying to get Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, to

One of the most common arguments offered by the State Department and proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline is that the project will be safer than other pipelines because TransCanada has agreed to 57 conditions outside the normal regulations. The Natural Resources Defense Council, which opposes the pipeline, says an analysis of those conditions found that the vast majority of them are identical to the minimum safeguards already written into the law: An analysis of the fifty-seven ‘special conditions’ which the Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Materials Administration (PHMSA) suggested reveals them for what they are – a public relations stunt taken at the public’s expense

America’s embattled hairless self-loving digital exhibitionist congressman, Anthony Weiner, will resign today . Taking nudie snaps of yourself and sending them to Twitter friends– undeniably pathetic but neither illegal nor corrupt– turns out is one of the rare breaches of ethics members of Congress will not tolerate. News gossip site Gawker has been the best source on the scandal and today Gawker writer Adrian Chen lets loose news of the pending resignation with an expert flurry of double entendres we’re not likely to see again for… at least another few months when the next ridiculous celebrity sex scandal breaks

This seems to have flown mostly under the radar, but on Tuesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the sharpest Democratic critics of a public option, told The

McFaul falls well below the radar in terms of staffers, but he holds a portfolio of tremendous importance: the reset button on U.S.-Russian relations. As

ASPEN, Colo.--The climate is an historically awful one for Republicans, Nicolle Wallace said. It’s just terrible. Wallace, the communications

Seemingly taking a page right out of the Mark Udall/Michael Bennet playbook , Montana Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Tester is running for reelection as a moderate who campaigns in cowboy boots and decries the extremism of today’s Congress. Tester will likely get his state’s Democratic votes while ceding most of the Republican votes to his opponent

The year 2009 has been monumental for climate news, featuring breakthroughs and setbacks, scandals and spin, and the first-ever passage of a comprehensive climate bill by a house of Congress. These five people led the way.

All of the Special Operations Forces action may concern Afghanistan (and, uh, Pakistan) right now, but Adm. Eric Olson, leader of U.S. Special Operations

Whether the Tea Party rank-and-file decide to get on board remains an open question, but conservative figures like Dick Armey, the former Republican majority

Finger pointing and agitation is quick on the heels of disappointment following a collapse in negotiations between Pennsylvania House and Senate leaders over a