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Congressman Ben Ray Luján will face attacks from the National Republican Campaign Committee over his vote to raise the debt limit. Luján was one of 97 Democrats voting to raise the debt limit $2 trillion to avoid a default on the debt the United States government owes

The campaign of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party’s candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, is clearly enjoying the bar fight between The

I nominate this Mike Lester cartoon from the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune, which posits, hilariously, that the president wants soldiers to murder people who like Fox

Following up on our stories earlier this week about the legal vacancy at the National Security Agency, Mark Hosenball at Newsweek finds that the Justice

David C. Gompert, a former RAND Corporation vice president and longtime nonpartisan State and National Security Council official (Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the

The Associated Press reports: Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after

Bill Kristol hears that Rasmussen Reports, the conservative pollster whose surveys have consistently shown the lowest levels of support for the stimulus, is

Marilyn Musgrave, the ultra-conservative Republican congresswoman from Colorado who disappeared for a while after her 2008 defeat, has emerged in the NY-23 to

This just released from the NATO command in Afghanistan: Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters were involved in what was believed to

In recent weeks more than 60 people -- including seven police officers -- have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.

As I reported last week, the Government Accountability Office has been reviewing for months a protest against a contract to train the Afghan police that

As indicated yesterday, President Hamid Karzai has embraced a runoff presidential election in a Kabul press conference. The Afghan election commission has set

In Boulder, there is little debate over the cause of climate change.

Laura Rozen reports that Harold Koh’s nomination for State Department legal adviser has just overcome a major Senate hurdle: Cloture passed on a 65-31 vote,

Boulder Democrat Jared Polis ranks No. 6 on Roll Call’s list of the wealthiest members of Congress, with $65.91 million in assets.

Remember Roberto DePosada, the Republican president of Latinos for Reform who released an ad urging Latinos not to vote in Tuesday’s election, because the

Politico reports that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will unveil today an energy tax incentives bill. Coral Davenport writes in Politico’s Morning Energy: He

The Florida Presidential Preference Primary Committee’s decision to move the date of that state’s GOP presidential primary to January is a hot topic for conservative media and bloggers. In a piece titled “Florida Republicans for Obama,” The Wall Street Journal comments: Republicans will have a hard time losing the next Presidential election, but they may be up to the job.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will give her own rebuttal to President Obama’s State of The Union Tuesday, broadcast by the Tea Party Express. There are two

White House officials who crafted the Bush administration’s torture policies, David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and John Yoo, a

Obviously I don’t have any stake in the reputation-destruction fight going on in Politico between Bill Kristol and ex-McCain campaign foreign policy adviser

The eighty-eight applicants to officially declare their interest for Jerome Block Jr.’s vacated District 3 commissioner of the Public Regulation Commission, seat include: an American Telepsychiatrists sales representative, the owner of a Santa Fe optical store, a substitute teacher, a musician, a rancher, a stay-at-home dad, a solar-power products designer, a graphic designer of a free monthly newspaper, an insurance agent, a resort director and an equipment maintenance technician at Intel. Fred Nathan and Jason Espinoza, directors at Think New Mexico, a think tank that released an influential assessment of the PRC one week ago, say they have never heard of most of the candidates.