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The headline reads, Feeling flush: Virginia’s budget surplus doubles. The article notes: Virginia closed its fiscal 2010 budget with a $403.2 million budget

Small-scale terrorism attacks may be here to stay but with al Qaeda reeling from Osama bin Laden’s death, the United States could deliver a “knockout”

Buried at the end of a New York Times piece is this rather significant declaration from Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq: Gen. Ray

Source: Kathy Easthagen The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota sent Hennepin County commissioners a letter criticizing new restrictions the county plans to impose on Occupy Wall Street protesters in downtown Minneapolis, who have set up in Hennepin County Government Plaza since the first week of October. While the ACLU isn’t representing the protesters, ACLU legal counsel Teresa Nelson asked that the county rescind the conditions on the protest–including limits on space, personal possessions and temperature–which the county announced earlier this week.

Legal experts seem to agree that any new military commissions or national security courts, even if they provide detainees with more rights, will always be viewed as suspect.

During a scheduled news conference in New Hampshire early Thursday, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announced his candidacy for president of the United States. Johnson served as governor from 1995 to 2003, when he could no longer run due to term limits

After all the threats, tirades and political posturing surrounding the importance of winning a bipartisan health reform bill, it appears that the legislation

A few months back, Nate Silver pondered the motivations of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), pointing out that the impetus behind the senator’s staunch opposition

Forty years ago, in September 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive -- which changed mainstream America’s view of the Vietnam War. In living

As the three senators crafting climate legislation try to rally moderates behind their cause, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) could be a key player, since she’s

Lawmakers and immigration restrictionists advocating closure of the border with Mexico to prevent the spread of swine flu into the United States may want to

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has announced he will allow SB 423 to become law without his signature.

There’s some static between Democratic and Republican members of Congress in favor of the Iran Resolution. After Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) used her time

Lawrence Lessig has published a long and thoughtful essay entitled, Democracy After Citizens United in the Boston Review. Lessig, a professor of law at

Religious and social conservatives are proud of what they’ve been able to accomplish in the Hawkeye State, especially the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices and their perceived influence in advance of the Ames Straw Poll. Now they’re poised to take what they’ve learned here and turn it into a national strategy.

A four-plus page section of the 2004 CIA inspector general report on torture is called Endgame, and, ominously, all but two paragraphs, far separated from

Rep. Michele Bachmann is scheduled to return to Minnesota next week, but not to her district. Instead, she’ll be hosting a fundraiser at the Hilton in downtown Minneapolis.

Four of the 15 protesters arrested in the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) since Thursday remain in jail, refusing to give their names, and are

There’s no question that international law is supposed to govern the Israel-Hamas conflict; but the persistent recriminations raise an important question: Does it matter?

Many Arabs and Muslims are disappointed that Obama has not lived up to his promises, especially on the Arab-Israeli conflict, said Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor and the co-author of a recent study of Obama’s global engagement efforts.