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Carl Paladino doesn’t mind being nasty. Even Republicans are mad at Jim DeMint. In Britain, it’s OK for politicians to not go to church. Sharron

Rep. Michele Bachmann has sponsored a bill that would make all federal government operations use English and require all people undergoing citizenship testing to demonstrate their ability to speak English.

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott strategist Tony Fabrizio blasted out an optimistic memo to the St. Petersburg Times predicting record

Almost 200 undocumented young people from across the U.S. gathered in the Russell Senate Office building in Washington, D.C., today to argue for the passage of

The former governor of Florida does some helpful tackling for Marco Rubio, spending several minutes with a Newsmax interviewer to make the point that Crist’s

And the winner is ... a cardboard box, followed closely by cow farts and evaporating tiles! The results of Forum for the Future’s green design competition

Allegations that an attorney working for Troy-based Orlans Associates foreclosure giant is allegedly involved in robo-signing drew immediate concerns from lawmakers and activists. “This ‘robo-signing’ practice is degrading our communities and undercutting the integrity of our justice system,” said Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit), responding to a Michigan Messenger report . “I’m working right now on federal legislation to help struggling homeowners gain additional time to negotiate settlements with their lenders.

I’m pretty sure he’s hinted at this before, but Time magazine gets the, uh, scoop: Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so

From Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s remarks with President Obama at the former concentration camp today: You spoke of humanity, Mr. President. Though unto

The 2012 presidential buzz is centered on whether or not former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is going to choose to formally enter the race, but locally it seems Palin still needs to decide whether or not she will appear at an Indianola tea party event scheduled for Saturday. CNN is reporting that Palin sources have said organizers for the “Restoring American Event” have been “dishonest” about the speaking program and rally promotion, and that Palin is no longer likely to attend.

The post-Fort Hood right-wing attack on their fellow American citizens continues. Here’s conservative Christian commentator Pat Robertson yesterday on The 700

Pretty much wherever you find efforts to tighten immigration laws in the United States, you find John Tanton–or more likely these days, one of the groups he founded. The Federation for American Immigration Reform was in Arizona when that state wrote its famous senate bill to crack down on immigration. They were in the Colorado Capitol last November when the Republican Study Committee of Colorado hosted a forum on immigration reform

As the saga of Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) apology to BP took yet another strange turn today, a new poll shows the voters he represents think he was wrong --

This morning we ran a piece from our finance reporter Mary Kane on how the Bear Stearns deal struck a nerve with housing advocates who have been calling for

Critics of the conservatives who’ve brought guns to rallies outside of President Barack Obama’s speeches have found an unlikely ally: Bernard Kerik, the former

This morning, President Barack Obama addressed today’s positive jobs report and indicated that while the recovery is real, it remains fragile. In the statement,

The Michigan League of Women Voters are calling for reform of the state’s redistricting laws and will be hosting a forum at Cooley Law School on Wednesday evening on the subject. In a press release, the organization says: Calls for transparency and other reforms to Michigan’s redistricting process were ignored this year, as the Legislature went about the business of drawing political maps in the usual secretive fashion. Maps for Michigan’s new Congressional and State legislative districts were signed into law in August and will remain in place for a decade

Via Marc Ambinder, according to a new poll of residents of Arizona’s Maricopa County -- the state’s most populous and home to eight of its 10 largest cities --

DAYTON, Ohio -- After finishing an education address that was supposed to drive his campaign message today, Sen. Barack Obama tacked a press conference onto