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Here’s another Ted Kennedy video. This is the departed Massachusetts senator in a press conference after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his

A six-pack of noteworthy tidbits from this week’s news: # Your state lawmakers are most likely richer than you: See this report from the News Service of Florida. Only in Florida: A former governor’s fraternity brother gets embroiled in a legal battle with a businessman tied to the Jordanian royal family over a lucrative Pentagon contract. Adam Hasner on the Truth-O-Meter: False

Today, the Obama administration lays out the case against a nationwide foreclosure moratorium. In the Huffington Post, Shaun Donovan, the Secretary of Housing

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor today to decry the crippling effect of federal income taxes on families and the economy. While we

Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement responding to the Military Commission verdict for Salim Hamdan, who was just found guilty of material support for

After confirming that the administration has determined 48 detainees at Guantanamo who are not feasible to transfer too dangerous to prosecute, Attorney

Aaron Blake has the news -- shortly after Dick Cheney’s former aides began drumming up opposition to Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, Cheney has now

Finally, a company with the temerity to go out and make a direct corporate expenditure on behalf of a candidate, or three. The Penneco Oil Company, an oil and

I think Mike Vanderboegh will end up making a lot of trouble for Tea Parties with this off-the-rails blog post calling, many times over, for violence against

The third-ranking Republican in the House, who had been concentrating on a campaign against cap-and-trade legislation, has swiftly become one of the most vocal

With unemployment still hovering near double digits, the Christian Science Monitor this week highlights a forgotten angle in the government’s efforts to help

Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they lacked a deep bench of

Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) for U.S. Senate in Nevada, is in some hot water for remarks she made to a

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is launching a new political action committee, Country First, replacing the storied Straight Talk America PAC that was folded into

It has been a quiet week on the financial regulatory reform front, but that does not mean the deal-making has stopped. With the House and Senate out of session

Minnesota’s Episcopalians voted this weekend to oppose a ballot question that would change the Minnesota Constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Fresh off some heartening poll numbers for Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) in his Senate race, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) had announced that it will launch a

It faded from news coverage over the past few weeks, but when President Obama returns from Prague, he’ll have to make a decision 0n pressing forward to try

The process of opting out of the immigration enforcement program Secure Communities has been shrouded in secrecy and contradictory statements -- most recently

ProPublica just posted a good story on Gulf oil spill victims who are still waiting to receive compensation for their losses, even after being told by Gulf

The South Carolina Republican announced today that he’s hoping to amend the finance reform bill working its way (slowly) across the Senate floor with a

The intricate legal battle over missing White House emails could be going somewhere. Theresa Payton, the White House’s chief information officer,has admitted

With the spike in gas prices to more than $4 a gallon, Bloomberg pointed out in a recent story that high commuting costs are contributing to falling home values