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The U.S. Senate failed to file cloture on the National Defense Authorization Act, which included an amendment to repeal Don’t ask, don’t tell, the military’s

PITTSBURGH - The conversation with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) heated up a bit as he took questions on what he could do to bring Republicans on board with

From the stage of the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips announced that organizers would be putting together a second convention from July 15

Sen. Barack Obama is on his first extended vacation of the campaign, but his aides are working hard to counteract Sen. John McCain’s recent celebrity offensive.

Economists call for Congress to put together wage subsidies to spur hiring.

After weeks of escalating Republican attacks on the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, for alleged voter registration fraud, it turns

I appear as a guest on Peter B. Collins’ radio show -- which is fun because it has live callers. It’s like talking to blog commenters, if commenters were more

March is Women’s History Month, and to add to that history, the White House released an organized compendium of statistics on American women, focusing on their

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who’s probably dealt with the Pakistanis longer than any senior administration official, reacts to the capture of Mullah Abdul

The Minnesota Independent reports on the latest craze in debt collection services: invoking Jesus. “What Would Jesus Do” if he owed money to a collection

Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences. From KOAT : UNM students who said in interviews Wednesday that they were unsatisfied expressed frustrations ranging from class availability to a sense of detachment from university decision-makers according to the Performance Effectiveness Report. UNM’s satisfaction rate has remained at 77 or 78 percent over the past 10 years

SurveyUSA has the results of an ugly round of South Carolina polling: Based on what you know, should Gov. Mark Sanford remain in office? Remain in office -

The ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is hounding the governor even as the media spotlight (temporarily?) flits

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s hearing on Blackwater/Paravant’s subcontract with Raytheon and the Army to train Afghan security forces has just ended,

Does a recessionary economy mean that workers must necessarily accept lower wages? Last week, The Wall Street Journal got a lot of attention for an article

Does the conservative Minnesota Republican congresswoman now support abortion rights? How else can one read the following statement, made earlier today Tuesday

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) Eighteen Catholic colleges from around the country, including Ave Maria University in Florida, have asked the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include birth control in a list of preventive health care services. Catholic groups from all over the country have been the main opposition to a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would require insurance companies to cover birth control without making women pay a co-payment.

The first vote of conservative superstar Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) career helped torpedo a key labor nominee. The senator’s second vote will be less pleasing to