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Two weeks before the November 8 election, Ohio voters seem poised to stomp the aggressive collective-bargaining-curbing law, Senate Bill 5, that has unified

I’ve got a copy of Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence, which is as chock-full of remembered conversations as a D.C. memoir should be. The first conversation

Reports that only 25 percent of eligible homeowners have applied for inclusion in President Obama’s $75 billion mortgage modification program and only 5 percent

Tea Party Nation blasted out an email asking its Tennessee members to protest Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and stop financial reform legislation -- which

The New Mexico Department of Corrections is fining GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison operator, $1.1 million for understaffing one of its prisons. GEO manages three of the four private prisons in the state, including Lea County Correctional Facility, where from September of 2010 to March of 2011 one out of every four jobs were vacant

Dave Itzkoff ribs Sarah Palin, in perfect New York Times style, for a strange complaint made on the program formerly known as The Tonight Show With Conan

This is pretty unbelievable. Rex Rammell, a longshot candidate for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination in Idaho (longtime pol Butch Otter, a fellow

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said in no uncertain terms Wednesday that the $25 billion bailout being sought by America’s

I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why? This is why. The crucial bit, if you don’t want

So one of the so-called Gitmo Nine Justice Department lawyers attacked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is Tony West. West, the

Interesting news from the Pew Hispanic Center: Immigrants gained 656,000 jobs in the year after the recession officially ended in June 2009, while native-born

Jeremy Scahill, journalism’s most dogged investigator of the privatized military, reports that the State Department’s Worldwide Personal Protective Services

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work

A few months ago, Congressman Jared Polis told the Colorado Independent that he thought it would take a majority of states legalizing medical marijuana or otherwise liberalizing their laws before Congress would be likely to do anything at the federal level.

Building a Better Ohio, a group formed to support anti-collective bargaining legislation that will go before voters in November via a veto referendum known as

I spent the weekend at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, where it was not hard to find and buy Third Reich memorabilia, so this, about the man who

As Sen. John McCain continues to tout offshore drilling -- and others in Congress start to jump on the bandwagon -- he’s found it necessary to downplay the

The top executives at some of the state’s largest businesses will serve on a board overseeing Iowa’s new public-private economic development efforts, Gov. Terry Branstad has announced, although he says any potential conflicts raised by their positions will be approached “carefully.” Branstad on Monday announced 11 appointees to the Iowa Partnership for Economic Progress board and seven to the Iowa Innovation Corporation board

Today Next Friday is Dennis Blair’s last day in the office as Director of National Intelligence. His farewell message to the intelligence community workforce

It’s the most controversial counterterrorism program there is. The CIA’s remotely piloted aircraft, operating with the tacit consent of the Pakistani

Whether the final state budget looks more like the Spartan version passed by the state House or the less-austere bill struggling in the Senate, Texas mental

Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky had a few things to say Sunday in advance of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Iowa appearance