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I was just looking at some notes I took during the Clinton campaign’s conference call with reporters on Monday. It’s pretty clear that the kinds of things

Senator Michael Bennet is perhaps never in finer form than when he rails against his own kind. Armed with charts, he gave a funny, pointed floor speech earlier this week, where he noted that the approval rating of Congress stands at about nine percent today. He compared that with the approval ratings of British Petroleum during the Deepwater spill (quite a bit higher) and with the percentage of people who think America should become communist (a little higher).

Gov. Rick Snyder and his Budget and Treasury officials are meeting with bond rating agencies in New York City today in an effort to drive down borrowing costs for the state. Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel told the Detroit News that Snyder wants “to demonstrate and show all the steps Michigan is taking to get its fiscal house in order.“ Michigan has an AA- rating from Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor’s.

<div class="mini gray">Photo credit: Lauren Burke, WDCPix</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In the battle to court young

South Dakota Sen.

Even while Massey Energy is touting another record setting year for safety, the Charleston Daily Mail today has a different story: Safety inspectors

For more than seven weeks, Jeannie Mathis has been waiting for a check from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. And for seven weeks, her claim has been “under review.”

George W. Bush speaks, The Washington Times listens: I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor, he said. I’ll just tell you that there are people

Reporters everywhere are sharpening their best baseball metaphors for Feb. 13 when ace pitcher Roger Clemens responds to allegations of steroid use before the

Late Thursday, The Associated Press reported the government would suspend the cash-for-clunkers program that provides vouchers worth up to $4,500 to consumers

Last week, CNN published a list of billions of dollars in stimulus provisions that the Republicans’ congressional leadership had deemed wasteful. The list

The New York Times runs a very good piece about the strained, tentative and sub rosa relationship between the Obama administration and American Muslim

Today’s edition of the GOP proposes plan that consists of vague attacks on Democrats story is the broad outline of a health care plan just released by the

Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood, whose mother was allegedly murdered by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon in 2007, says that Macon has now threatened her life as well as that of an Ingham County Prosecutor. Wood says she was notified in late August by the prosecutor’s office about a “concrete threat against Catherine Emerson and myself.” “They said that they had received a letter on that threat and that it would be turned over to the Michigan State Police Major Crime Task Force,” Wood said

More data are in concerning the new Super PAC, Alaskans Standing Together, formed to back Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her write-in re-election bid for

Conservative author Jack Cashill has been diligently working to find connections between the collected works of former Weatherman Bill Ayers and President

When a comprehensive immigration reform bill failed in 2007, eight Democrats voted to kill it. The Hill reported today some of these senators may again help to

As Daphne pointed out, the Supreme Court last week declined to take up a case brought by several U.S. towns against the Department of Homeland Security for

The foreclosure crisis rumbles on. The unemployment rate is tickling double digits. What’s the cause of the chaos? Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) says it’s the

When the Obama administration announced its plan earlier this month to transfer military commissions-bound Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional

The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has introduced a bill that would allow Election Day registration for federal elections

A trio of professional snow shredders are charging the biggest hill in Washington, D.C., this week. Their message: Congress is getting too radical on Capitol Hill.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is the latest lawmaker to weigh in on the astounding news that AIG -- which remains alive