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Former FEMA Director Michael Brown’s Obama oil spill criticisms are unlikely to rehab his post-Katrina image. Energy interests along the Gulf Coast will

Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the independent federal agency headed by Sheila Bair that regulates banks and insures deposits, announced it

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is focused on Iowa in her campaign for the GOP nomination, her campaign spokeswoman told NBC, a strategy that may have led to all of the campaign’s New Hampshire staff quitting this weekend

At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Florida, a gay soldier serving in Iraq was booed by the audience because he asked a question about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. None of the candidates on stage came to his defense. After the debate, many moderate Republicans spoke out against the audience’s behavior including Minnesota Republican Rep.

A Taliban operative driving a car bomb attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital today, killing at least six U.S. and allied troops and at least 12 Afghan

It’s looking like it’ll be interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn -- who came under fire from Fox News host Glenn Beck last week for quoting Mao

Wow, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial on the Minnesota recount was the screed heard ’round the world. Here’s Bill O’Reilly, the Sinestro to Al Franken’s Hal

NASHVILLE -- The 1,100 ticketholders for Sarah Palin’s speech have assembled in the ballroom after a lengthy wait outside. As promised, the dinner being served

Luxury goods have very low tariffs, while cheap clothes, underwear, shoes and household products have much higher rates, making the tariff system our most regressive tax, says a trade policy expert.

The conventional political wisdom says that the entry of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, into the presidential race is bad news for former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, since the two will compete for similar voters in the Republican primary. However, a former Giuliani speechwriter and the staffers at High Times , the magazine devoted to marijuana, both agree that Johnson is the better choice between the two longshot libertarian Republicans.

A new report by the National Employment Law Project says that the bankruptcy of Michigan’s unemployment insurance fund can be blamed on a series of ill-advised tax breaks given to employers starting in the 1990s. Noting that the state has borrowed $3.2 billion from the federal government to keep the unemployment insurance fund solvent over the last few years and that the state must make a $117 million payment on those loans by the end of September, the report says: Michigan’s most recent round of benefit cutting began in March 2011, when Michigan lawmakers enacted legislation to reduce UI benefits by six weeks (from a maximum of 26 weeks to 20 weeks for a regular state claim). This change will take effect for new UI claims filed after January 15, 2012.

NPR makes a pretty good case for the Commission on Hope, Growth & Opportunity, a major 501(c)(4) player in this year’s elections which not only avoids

Taking a cue from Joe Miller’s upset victory over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last month, Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is taking no chances a week before his

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s new radio ad parodies the catastrophic decision of GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava’s husband to call the cops on The

I nominate this Mike Lester cartoon from the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune, which posits, hilariously, that the president wants soldiers to murder people who like Fox

Following up on our stories earlier this week about the legal vacancy at the National Security Agency, Mark Hosenball at Newsweek finds that the Justice

The GOP’s 21-page Pledge to America proposal, released today, is mostly silent on energy policy. In fact, the proposal summarizes Republicans’ energy policy

The new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of the race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District has Democratic candidate Bill Owens in the lead, benefiting from the

The former Congressional Budget Organization head and McCain campaign economic adviser shows up on the host committee for Tim Pawlenty’s Pretzels and Pints

In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today

The CIA said techniques like sleep deprivation worked better when a detainee’s resistance was weakened from hunger.

This just released from the NATO command in Afghanistan: Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters were involved in what was believed to