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The coming debate in the Colorado House Judiciary Committee on same-sex civil unions bill SB 172 will center on Republican arguments for and against the legislation. The debate scheduled to take place under the Dome in Denver Thursday will underline the dynamics shaping the larger national debate on gay rights– a debate that now pits Republicans against Republicans because Democrats and Independents have already made up their minds on the matter. As expected, Denver Senator Pat Steadman’s bill passed out of the Democratic-controlled Senate late last week.

As predicted, testimony at Wednesday’s House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources oil shale field hearing in Grand Junction produced more industry hand wringing over federal regulatory uncertainty and environmental push-back over an unproven energy source. Spearheaded by Western Slope U.S.

Those who defend companies against environmental class actions are taking notice of Saginaw Circuit Court Visiting Judge Leopold Borello’s move to decertify a class action against Dow Chemical because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Wal-Mart v.

It’s a bit off my beat, but Ronald Brownstein nails something important in this piece about the reservoir of support for health care reform -- any kind of

The Washington Post reports Wednesday morning that veteran Iowa political strategist Eric Woolson has signed on to be part of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty ‘s presidential campaign

If you factor out the self-awareness, Michael Ledeen is to neoconservatism what Kathy Griffin is to fame. How a man who helped arrange arms sales to the Iranian

Here’s a cheater’s guide to the president’s odes to bipartisanship: I understand that when the last administration asked this Congress to provide assistance

A bit of good economic news this week as the Department of Labor says new initial unemployment claims last week dropped by 36,000 from the week before, down to 383,000 claims. It still needs to drop lower — and it has to be offset even more by positive job gains — to make a serious dent in the unemployment rate for the right reasons, but the lower the number of initial jobless claims is the easier it is to offset those losses. The report says there are a total of 9,405,527 people in the United States receiving unemployment insurance, but that number is only about half of the total number of people who are actually unemployed

New statement from the Senate GOP leader. As foreshadowed by last week’s letter to Attorney General Eric Holder from nine Republican senators, McConnell argues

If you just started watching Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing during the statement of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), you might think you’d stumbled on a

While Rashid Khalidi disappeared as a campaign issue faster than he became one -- after it became clear that Sen. John McCain’s ties to the pro-Palestine

After my deep reading of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s rhetorical skills Tuesday, I confess I wasn’t quite up to scrutinizing her talk on national security issues

It’s become a staple of the election post mortems that Sen. John McCain’s response to the financial crisis, which began Sept. 13 when Lehman Bros. filed for

Last week, as Wall Street was flailing over the collapse of one of its largest investment banks, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) took a podium and told members

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on May 26, 2009. One of the things that most

First appeared November 4, 2008 Chicago, Ill — This victory is more than historic. President-elect Barack Obama’s victory marks political progress

The White House’s response to this morning’s dismal jobs report? Everything is coming up daisies -- just really, really slowly. Christina Romer, the head of the

The more I read the CIA inspector general report released today, the clearer it seems that any real investigation of CIA abuses will have to question the

It’s not a whip count or anything like that, but as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to push for Senate ratification of the New START nuclear