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This morning, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission heard from Robert Rubin and Charles Prince, the former heads of banking behemoth Citigroup. Prince

A Navy veteran and full-time student at the University of Central Florida, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida over a law requiring temporary assistance recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. Luis Lebron, a 35-year-old Orlando resident and single father, applied for temporary assistance in July 2011 to support his 4-year-old son

RNC chair candidate Michael Steele’s vocal opposition to treatment of African American voters by the GOP represents both experience and frustration.

Politico has a long article today on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who runs the Republican Governors Association (RGA), and how he is, well, powerful. The

Private employers added just 1,420 jobs per state in July -- not nearly enough to make up for job losses in the government, 50,000 of which were

The Iowa House will begin formal debate on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, civil unions and other domestic partnerships at 11 a.m. Tuesday, five hours earlier than originally scheduled. The change was made by Republican leadership, who said an impending winter storm set to hit the Midwest was the motivating factor

With the 2010 census data now on record it’s time for the state to redraw its electoral districts, a process that several Michigan groups believe should be a more transparent process. Last Wednesday several groups testified in front of the Senate Redistricting Committee to voice their concerns about the changing political boundaries and where the voice of Michigan citizens fit into the picture. Jocelyn Benson was first in line to speak before the committee.

So it’s looking like Hamid Karzai stole an election. What now? One option, apparently favored by the United States, is to try and persuade robbed rival Abdullah

In an effort to influence the debate over Ohio’s union-busting legislation, Senate Bill 5, that voters appear ready to repeal on Nov. 8, conservative activist

In the wake of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s party-line passage of sweeping health reform legislation this morning, all eyes are

Here’s Sarah Palin’s original TV ad from her 1996 run for mayor of Wasilla, AK. She looks a little less pitbull, a little less Tina Fey, and a lot more 1980s

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after spending much of 2009 pushing against the Obama administration’s call for a settlement freeze, has proposed a

Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle has been accused of meeting an 18-year-old man on the website Craigslist. The Indianapolis Star Tribune reports that

Via Alex Koppelman, I see that Orly Taitz has unleashed another incoherent, vicious rant in response to the demolition of the forged Kenyan birth certificate

Public Policy Polling (PPP) posted an interesting follow-up to its poll showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry running tied with his Democratic opponent Bill White.

AMES — Longtime political consultant and activist Fred Karger , the first official Republican 2012 presidential candidate, admits he’s a long shot. But as Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss) bows out of the race because he “doesn’t have the fire in his belly,” Karger insists he does

So, a few rounds of calls and background conversations later, the picture that emerges is that Leon Panetta, President Obama’s pick to head the Central