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GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s recent call for a “humane” path to immigration enforcement for undocumented immigrants does not seem to have hurt his poling numbers. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports today : ”A month before voting starts, Gingrich has established double-digit leads in some polls in the early voting states of Iowa and South Carolina.” According to the Pew Hispanic Center , two thirds of 10.2 million undocumented immigrants have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years

U.S. Senator from Colorado Michael Bennet, this week asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner what would happen if Congress failed to raise the debt limit

You wouldn’t think it would be news that the president of the United States went along with 66 other nations to sign a statement declaring that homosexuality

Congress’s sweeping probe into performance enhancing drug use in baseball now seems more like a public feud between Roger Clemens and his ex-personal trainer

As mentioned in the previous post, Steve Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations recently returned from helping shape Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 60-day review

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is calling the Republicans out: The Senate plans to give them the opportunity to vote for or filibuster the financial regulatory

Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, which did a lot of the legwork organizing opposition to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, pronounces victory

Potential presidential contender Herman Cain told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that he wouldn’t allow Muslims to serve in his administration and that, because Rep. Keith Ellison took his oath of office on the Qur’an instead of the Bible, he supports Sharia law above the Constitution

The Independence Party of Minnesota, one of three political parties in Minnesota with major party status, announced on Tuesday that it is joining the campaign to defeat a ballot measure that would place a ban on marriage for same-sex couples in the Minnesota Constitution if passed by the voters in 2012. The party announced shortly after the Minnesota Legislature passed the ballot initiative that it opposed the amendment, but the new announcement means party activists will actively campaign against the measure. “Our platform declares that ‘We oppose having the government impose state-sponsored morality or values on people of good conscience with differing views,” chair Mark Jenkins said in a statement

The House Financial Services Committee this morning passed legislation to create a new agency designed to protect consumers from tricks and traps in the banking

Through its legislative influence and political connections, the Palmetto Family Council has been able to wield power in South Carolina when it comes to sex education and other social-issue policies. On the national level, that power has translated into federal funding for social-policy-related grants and, potentially, some sway in the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign has taken heat for his family’s hunting property, which is named after a racist term. But it’s not his only

Recent information released from the U.S. Census Bureau reports that Florida had the third highest percentage of residents without insurance in 2010

A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 28 percent of Americans believe that there’s been too little coverage of allegations that President Obama

A legislative specialist with the Chicago-based Heartland Institute says activists protesting the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas may be sincere in their intentions but have “a clear misunderstanding of the functioning of markets.” “If the Keystone XL Project is not completed, expedited construction on a series of pipeline proposals to the British Columbia coast would be made more likely,” Heartland’s John Monaghan writes . “According to [a U.S

American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard predicted today that energy legislation, including an oil spill response bill and a stripped-down energy

The opinion pages of the Star Tribune have become embroiled in a war of words over efforts to “cure” gays and lesbians of their homosexuality. Last week, the Rev. James Livingston, a priest in the Archdiocese of St

A new study published in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology journal reveals that the proportion of practicing obstetrician-gynecologists

They might have -- at least so long as Americans are still paying attention.

Two items on a progressive wish list can be checked off. The first one was a promise to President Obama: Israel is now out of Gaza. The second was a commitment

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- Before and after Vice President Joe Biden’s rally here this morning for NY-23 Democratic candidate Bill Owens , around two dozen conservative

Reading beyond the Dade County references (made by the special envoy I suppose we must now call Richard LOLbrooke) in this Los Angeles Times piece about the

A statewide organization of political activists typically mobilized to protect individual over corporate interests wants to know why Gov.