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We know that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), burned by voter anger over his coziness with Wall Street, received only $4,250 in

The Michigan Catholic Conference is slamming the Legislature for passing a 48-month lifetime cash assistance limit without considering the impact on the 25,000 kids whose already destitute families will be kicked off aid Oct. 1.

WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the

Politico’s Laura Rozen obtained a formal dissent filed by a senior USAID development economist, C. Stuart Callison, against the development approach for

A new weekly newspaper launching in Vail next week already has competition in the form of a preemptive publishing strike from Vail Daily Editor and Publisher Don Rogers, who tells the Colorado Independent he already launched his own new weekly Thursday afternoon. “Ours came out yesterday afternoon,” Rogers said in an email. “It’s a weekend fun guide, basically

An interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is slated to air on the NewsHour tonight and, according to an early transcript, here’s what she says

Parts political reprimand and parts pragmatic entreaty, President Obama on Wednesday urged congressional lawmakers from both parties to put away the partisan

Fresh off last week’s news that companies run by the nephew of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the prominent House defense appropriator, have received millions of

How would CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta prevent the next dubious intelligence-based public presentation, a la then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s 2003

RedState.com uses scare quotes to refer to the bipartisanship that would result if merely two Republicans vote for the stimulus package. True: if only two of

UPDATED Nov. 11, with additions to the list of services offered* by Stanton Healthcare A Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, has a new neighbor, Stanton

<p>As the Clinton-Obama duel grinds on, Democratic eyes are turning to those previously underappreciated people known as

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants Interior to show him documents on the offshore drilling moratorium. Orszag is quitting in part because his already poor

<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>If we have to start an unnecessary and catastrophic war with Iran, please, Lord, let it be based on&nbsp;<a

Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) office sends word that the Senate will vote on cloture on the nomination of Cass Sunstein after a debate this hour. At 4:45pm, the

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. Abortion enslaves us,” with a link to the foundation’s TooManyAborted.com.

Earlier today I was chatting with a Pentagon official -- anonymously, of course -- about the Defense Department’s forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget. My source

Today, Neal Wolin, the deputy secretary of the Treasury, gave a speech to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s annual conference in Baltimore, and

Here’s how Young America’s Foundation spokesman Jason Mattera reacted (on Facebook) to the first batch of senatorial statements about Supreme Court nominee

After its executives spied on immigrant farmworkers and slandered them on-line to fight a grass-roots campaign for better pay and working conditions,