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Andrea Mitchell went on MSNBC’s ’Morning Joe’ yesterday and made a claim that freaked out former Rep. Tom Andrews (R-Me.). Her sources, she said, had discovered

Via Justin Elliott, Greg Sargent and Tim Fernholz, the aforementioned Republican members of Congress are incensed that the Council on American-Islamic

Chadi Moussa is a man in trouble, The New York Times reports today. He is unable to afford the mortgage on his $2.24 California mansion - and yet ineligible for

It’s very hard to have a debate with someone when your underlying assumptions are radically different. Inevitably, things will get pretty heated. That’s what

The national security adviser, upset by Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recent speech, told CNN that it’s better for military advice to come up through the chain of

It ain’t uplifting, but it’s arguably the most pressing issue facing the country right now, so after the jump, check out TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the omnipresent

The Campaign to Defeat Obama , a political action committee with ties to the Republican Party and the Tea Party Express, has launched a campaign linking Democratic Party lawmakers and President Obama to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is depicted by the organization as “violent mobs.” “Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheeleaders,” writes Campaign chief and right-wing politics public relations consultant Joe Wierzbicki in a release announcing a new campaign ad. Wierzbicki points readers to poll data from Quinnipiac suggesting Americans now view the Occupy movement unfavorably. The new poll finds that support for the violent Occupy Wall Street mobs has fallen further, and since Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheerleaders, it spells trouble for him as well…

It’s gotten much less attention than his unilateral revision of Afghanistan’s electoral law, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scaling back a milestone for

I know, I know; everyone’s talking about the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer confrontation Thursday night. Yes, it was entertaining, and yes, Stewart made some great

This ad from Tea Party Express is the hardest punch yet from a conservative coalition trying to poison the well for Scott Ashjian, the businessman running as

The tactic has targeted legislation touching issues as varied as credit card reform, unemployment insurance and Indian health care.

It’s a small gesture, but during a press briefing yesterday on coordinating NATO civilian-military planning with Afghan efforts, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the

PHOENIX -- Sen. John McCain paints himself as a pro-veteran’s veteran, but his voting history tells a different story.

As Matt points out, President George W. Bush announced he wants to see the U.S. start drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and exploring the Arctic National

So says The Hill, which is reporting that the 91-year West Virginia Democrat was released from the hospital Tuesday after more than six weeks of treatment for

Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard.

The Cairo speech has eaten up most of my day, but last night, Bruce Riedel, the chairman of the Obama administration’s strategy review on Afghanistan and

Voters in Tuesday’s Albuquerque municipal elections decided to keep two incumbent city councilors in office but rejected one of Mayor Richard Berry’s top initiatives. A long-standing red-light photo-camera bill was also rebuked. Mayor Berry’s “ABQ: The Plan” — the pairing of an improved interstate highway interchange and the construction of a 35-acre complex of sports fields and indoor courts, to the combined tune of $50 million — got nixed by voters.

Some bad news for immigrants: The unemployment gap between immigrants and native-born citizens has expanded during the recession and will likely remain until

I’m comfortable with the entire plan, Gen. McChrystal says in reference to a question from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Amb. Eikenberry agrees. About the July