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Attorney General Eric Holder today withdrew the controversial ruling by his predecessor that immigrants in deportation proceedings have no right to appeal an

Ever since Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) indicated he would vote yes on financial regulatory reform, a number of government transparency advocacy groups have

In response to Sen. Barack Obama’s piece on his Iraq strategy in The New York Times opinion page last week, Sen. John McCain responded with an op/ed of his own

Cutting interest rates and bailing out banks won’t pull us out of the full-fledged credit collapse we’re facing. It’s time to spend.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Nebraska Gov

In five minutes, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) announced she would skip the 2010 gubernatorial race, resign her own office at the end of July (her term is up

The Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force has issued a preliminary report recommending that Guantanamo Bay detainees be tried in federal court for

Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov.

In response to concerns over the term “Occupy Albuquerque”, the protest movement has renamed itself “ (Un)occupy Albuquerque .” The decision was made in a general assembly meeting of protesters othe University of New Mexico campus. As the New Mexico Independent reported last week, some of the ’99 percenters’ objected to the association of the word ‘Occupy’ with what one Daily Kos contributor called “…five-hundred years of forced occupation of lands, resources, cultures, power, and voices by the imperial powers of both Spain and the United States

This morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) raised the prospect that the Senate might hold another vote on extending federal unemployment insurance benefits before

Iran may not be in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. North Korea withdrew from it in 2003. According to the Obama administration’s new

Gov. Susana Martinez announced Wednesday that she will ask the state legislature to approve $450,000 in supplemental food stamp assistance for 4,000 elderly

A congressional report released Wednesday blames defense contractor KBR for the recent electrocution of a U.S. soldier in Iraq, in contradiction to what the

Much remains unclear about the substance of the significant actions that CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded that the agency didn’t sufficiently brief to

Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep

When an economic bailout gets political, all bets are off. Look what happened when the German banking system melted down during the Weimar Republic in 1931.

Immigrant rights groups are trying new down payment approach to reform: small bills now, major legislation later. The Washington Post’s Krissah Thompson

To investigate the merits of a new Church committee to take a comprehensive look at intelligence activities, I asked someone who was part of the first one in

Yesterday we noted that John McCain had become the first candidate to speak out in favor of the anti-vaccine lobby. It turns out that McCain’s involvement began

Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a bill that sets a 48 month lifetime limit on receiving welfare cash payments in the state of Michigan

A poll released Thursday by Public Opinion Strategies shows that 62 percent of Americans say that marriage in the United States should be between a man and a

When federal agents led a raid on medical marijuana businesses in Montana last week , questions were raised as to whether these businesses were raided because they were suspected of selling out of the proverbial back door to people without medical marijuana permits–or whether they were raided simply for being medical marijuana businesses. While answers are not readily forthcoming, facts suggest it was a little of both