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President Obama just fielded questions about the way forward following last night’s election and the huge gains made by Republicans in the House. He refused to

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has a great take on a story making the rounds on the Internet today, a New York Times piece on former Countrywide Financial

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board voted last week to eliminate degree programs that were not attracting enough students, including art education,

<< BACK TO STORY Here are some excerpts of a flier being sold by Mark Koernke at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.

Andrew Ross Sorkin takes a shot at explaining why we have to pay those AIG bonuses today in The New York Times. Sorkin explains that he knows it’s not a popular

The attacks keep coming on Obama and his presumptive Supreme Court nominees (such as Sonia Sotomayor, who I wrote about today) who the president expects to be

The University of Texas system is developing a pilot program that would allow students to graduate a year earlier, condensing undergraduate education and

I’ll have a piece shortly on recent polling that shows that an increasing number of Americans are skeptical of the threat of global warming. Evidently,

One man has been arrested in a Saturday night home invasion on U.S. Rep

Former Washington, D.C., public school chancellor Michelle Rhee hit Tallahassee Wednesday, promoting her tough-on-teachers brand of school reform to the Florida legislature.

Sen. John McCain, who has locked up the GOP nomination, was chased down in the parking lot of a Phoenix shopping mall today and persuaded to remove his

Florida Attorney General Pam won a partial victory in the state’s case challenging the federal health care reform law. Here’s a roundup of reactions the Eleventh Circuit’s decision. # Bondi: # Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi today declared victory in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that forcing Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional

More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman: “Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart

The Texas Republican Party unveiled its new platform today and it contains some very far-right provisions, to say the least. Media Matters has the full details,

The first number is how much Democrats say their Senate candidate in Massachusetts has raised since sending out an email appeal yesterday from Vicki Kennedy,

The Bank of America logo (Pic via blog.firstfoodbank.org) The Associated Press reports that Bank of America has completely back-peddled on its its plans to levy $5 debit card fees. The AP reports : The bank says in a statement that the decision to scrap the plan came after listening to customer feedback in recent weeks. The news comes after other major banks, including Chase and Wells Fargo, said last week that they were canceling tests of similar fees.

The Washington Post’s story today about liberals who are frustrated that the Obama administration isn’t pressing harder to win confirmation for liberal-leaning

Everyone’s piling on Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for his GQ interview, which can generously be read as a warm and fuzzy attempt to

Jeanne Cummings digs through the RNC’s finance reports and comes out with details that don’t reflect well on Chairman Michael Steele’s spending habits. For

Glenn Thrush gets the Republican National Committee, via spokeswoman Katie Wright, to walk a few steps back from the health care survey that suggested Democrats