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With today’s headlines screaming (perfectly legitimately) about last night’s health reform votes, it’s easy to forget that House lawmakers also passed the most

I owe it to a press release for the Center for Constitutional Rights for pointing this out to me, but think back to the halcyon days of early December 2009,

That’s the warning coming today from the folks at the Center for Public Integrity, who caution that the recent High Court decision empowering corporations to

If there was one over-arching theme of the final night of the Republican National Convention, it was that liberals cannot be trusted to run things. From former

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is hitting Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown over an ad launched yesterday by a 527 called Americans

It may be political poison for U.S. government officials to talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the taboo does not extend to NPR. NPR’s Steve

Scott Brown, the Republican newly elected to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), has been surprisingly forthcoming about his vote in favor of the

According to a State Department spokesman, a new review currently underway within the department might result in controversial security company ArmorGroup North

D.C. snowpocalypse has closed government buildings for a second day -- for those not subject to this winter siege, we’re told to expect another 10 to 20 inches

I had some concerns that a recent Los Angeles Times op-ed from Richard Fontaine and John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security treated the fraudulent

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is reportedly preparing to introduce a bill extending the filing deadline for the next tier of unemployment benefits

In the wake of Dick Wadhams’ exit from GOP leadership , a shootout is erupting over the soul of the state Republican Party. Wadhams this week said he is done with the political sniping – particularly from Tea Party and 9-12 sectors – and is not seeking a third term as party chair.

Annie just noted that the national debt hit a (somewhat meaningless) milestone this week, topping $13 trillion yesterday. As a quick addendum, it’s worth

Today in Arlington, the Environmental Protection Agency is holding its first public hearing on its proposal to regulate coal ash, the byproduct of coal-fired

The American Independent previously reported on a Dillard’s-sponsored Heroic Media fashion-show fundraiser scheduled for April 9, with an estimated attendance

From the offices of Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) comes this description of the latest unemployment benefits extension being put forth by

The rapid implosion of Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) career will end with his resignation from Congress on Monday, less than a week after he announced that he had

In a wide-ranging new “weekly update” posted today at Red County , Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, describes the current Washington debate over federal spending in stark terms, calling it “the ultimate ideological clash in America.” The kicker

Apparently Malaysia is saying this has nothing to do with today’s Washington Nuclear Security Summit -- opening kickoff of which comes at 5 p.m. EST -- but over

Responding to news that Gov. Rick Scott’s budget maintains taxpayer funding for the state’s controversial crisis pregnancy network and that the centers have the vocal support of at least two of her colleagues , state Rep. Elaine Schwartz , D-Hollywood, yesterday called the Florida Pregnancy Support Services Program part of the legislature’s “war against women,” warning, “We’re going back to the Middle Ages.” # The Pregnancy Support Services Program, begun under former Gov.

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg told a room full of representatives of Florida’s tourism industry that the Gulf Coast Claims Facility would “take another look” at denied claims when claimants file for final or quarterly “interim” payments. # Speaking at a Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association meeting in Tampa, Feinberg said some claimants have been reporting inconsistencies — that their neighbors and co-wokers got paid, but they didn’t, or that they got less than they felt they deserved

California has announced a new plan to drastically cut greenhouse emissions with sweeping state regulations across almost all industries. The state’s Air

State Sens. Evelyn Lynn, R-Daytona Beach, and Stephen Wise, R-Jacksonville (Pic by Office of Senate President, via flsenate.gov) Two state lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — have come together to file legislation that would require pregnancy resource centers, or crisis pregnancy centers, to protect the private medical information of women who visit them. The Pregnancy Confidentiality Act was filed by state Rep