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In an internal 2003 memo, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously warned that the struggle against terrorism would be a long, hard slog. His

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

Democratic lawmakers are defending four colleagues and a labor leader who have brought a lawsuit against Gov.

The Republican Party of Florida will host its Presidency 5 event in Orlando later this month. On the event’s agenda is a presidential straw poll, a Fox News debate and a keynote address by Gov. Rick Scott.

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.

In Iowa, the state Republican Party is calling for the “reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment” to the U.S. Constitution -- a

Here’s the Tea Party video of the week, so far: Singer/songwriter Lloyd Marcus (of American Tea Party Anthem fame) re-writes the lyrics of My Girl to pay

Here’s one interesting revelation from today’s House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the Michigan pipeline spill: the agency in charge of

At 4 p.m.

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

The secret to ending abortion America is by shifting abortion rights to the states, saidAmericans United for Life‘s President Charmaine Yoest on a recent

The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that puts the state within reach of having some of the toughest immigration laws in the

Republicans aren’t exactly warming to Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) new language in the DISCLOSE Act, intended to treat disclosure requirements on campaign

A new Quinnipiac University poll out early Wednesday shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry climbing to a narrow lead in the GOP presidential nomination contest, but former Massachusetts Gov.

This is what Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told MSNBC (no link yet): LIEBERMAN: Yes. I mean, let me say first that I hope I can support ratification of the

Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59 Democrats and Republicans have united in pledging to spend more money for research and prevention efforts to combat the spread of AIDS domestically and worldwide. The Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus , spurred by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), was formerly launched Thursday during a press briefing on Capitol Hill.