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Gordon Duguid’s daily press conferences at the State Department: Not really on the level of the 2002-vintage Rumsfeld Show of obscurantism and bluster and

September’s job numbers indicate the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 percent, and that nearly half (44 percent) of the 14 million looking for work

This is an American proposal that honors the traditions of our country, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is investigating whether Massey Energy, owner of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 workers were killed April

There’s one up high in this morning’s New York Times piece on the Iran/Turkey/Brazil uranium enrichment deal: According to a Western diplomat who spoke in

Much has been made of disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s new job selling pizza at a kosher establishment in Baltimore. But what of former Rep. Randy

Some House members seek to resurrect a measure to allow bankruptcy judges to cramdown loan principals and terms that failed in the Senate this spring.

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke’s in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, right on time to survey the outcome of last week’s trilateral

Chris Cillizza has the scoop: Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk (R) will not run for the open seat of Sen. Roland Burris (D) in 2010, a stunning reversal from just 48

Once a central element to the administration’s plan to help underwater homeowners, cramdown is no longer part of the debate.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist tells me that Sen. Arlen Specter’s party switch is not a total disaster because the most important issue

We like always to think of it as a virtue, the head-down, tortoise-beats-the-hare tenaciousness that exemplifies the admirable victors, the artists, the

SAN DIEGO -- The next few days will likely make the Tom Tancredos and the Lou Dobbs’ of the world cringe. Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP nominee, appeared

Four and a half years ago I was working for a certain national newspaper when my bosses had a brainstorm: hire two controversial pundits of the right and left

The Radiance Foundation, the group that recently unveiled a series of anti-abortion billboard in Oakland, Calif., has unveiled another set of ads directed at the African-American community. According to a press release , the group will put up no fewer than 50 billboards throughout metro and downtown Atlanta, in an effort to expose what they call “the epidemic of abortion.” # The billboards liken abortion to slavery, proclaiming, “The 13th Amendment freed us.

More information is emerging about the people involved in organizing this weekend’s prayer rally at Ford Field amid accusations that the event is targeting local Muslims. People for the American Way reports that Lou Engle, the man behind the rally, worked with Transformation Michigan to put the event together. Transformation Michigan is a conservative Christian group with a history of presenting the views of anti-Muslim extremists, including Rick Joyner, who is also involved with The Call Detroit rally, and Jerry Boykin

No, that wasn’t a statement from this week. But less than six months ago, at a hearing to examine offshore drilling, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said tersely,

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement records relating to the detention and assault of an American citizen and a lawful permanent resident in Grand Rapids in February.

The conservative commentator, who regularly gets away with statements that would get less popular pundits banned from the airwaves, doesn’t pull punches in his

The Associated Press reports that a group of senior House Democrats are concerned that a recent signing statement issued by President Obama is reminiscent

Gov. Rick Snyder is seeking to preempt legal challenges to his recently adopted tax plan by asking the Michigan Supreme Court to issue an opinion on the legality of taxing public pensions.

To build off Daphne’s post about defining the battlefield on which detentions occur, Hofstra law professor Eric M. Freedman writes in to make a point about the