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Your daily dose of unsettling anti-Obama filmmaking -- Fraud, a movie with a trailer and not much else, consisting of interviews with attendees of the 9/12

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for Georgia to execute a man convicted of murdering a police officer in 1989, though seven of nine witnesses in

The Emily’s List-endorsed candidate hoping to unseat Rep.

Last week, Senate Democratic leaders rolled out a proposal to extend unemployment insurance by 14 weeks -- with an extra six weeks thrown in for those states

In a fairly muted online Q&A with Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio -- questions were along the lines of what can we do to stop this health care

With the GOP set to take over the House in January, I’ve been trying to pinpoint some immigration proposals -- if any exist -- that House Republicans, Senate

Before there was Glenn Beck, there was John Gibson, a dyspeptic Fox News host who anchored the network’s 5 p.m. block and steadily upped his outrage against

After receiving a letter from Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza, to dispute an impending

This morning I got an email from a spokesman for Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, objecting to my characterization of him in my

Civil and immigrant rights groups have expressed outrage about a federal judge’s decision to allow many of the provisions of Alabama’s new immigration

Apropos of Friday’s queries about Gen. Raymond Odierno’s commitment to the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement that guarantees the withdrawal of all U.S.

State Auditor Hector Balderas raised $400,000 in the first two months of his candidacy for an open U.S. Senate seat in 2012, showing that he could mount a serious challenge to Rep.

Shortly after Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told a Senate panel this morning that we are regaining the initiative and insurgency

An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week,

Laura Rozen is at The Hague to report on tomorrow’s United Nations summit on Afghanistan, which the Iranians have agreed to attend. Rozen finds the Iranians

Alan Schram at Seeking Alpha takes some notes at the annual conference of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm run by the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.