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As national attention has become focused on the struggle by Holland residents to pass a non-discrimination ordinance, the anti-gay Family Research Council’s political arm rolled its “Values Voter’s Bus” into west Michigan Monday. The Grand Rapids Press reports the bus stopped in Holland Monday morning.

The push to preempt Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) as a potential running mate for Sen. Barack Obama is growing today. TPM covers a swift spike in membership for

RNC officials support reform, but worry whether states will be able to comply with the new guidelines and whether avoiding winner-takes-all primaries might privilege grassroots candidates.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) The anti-abortion group Kansans for Life is taking aim at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Kansas Gov

It seems that the Goldman Sachs executives testifying before Congress this week didn’t do a very good job convincing the powers that be that their investment

If I can say something that isn’t about Gaza for a minute, Jeff Stein at CQ has a great piece about how Barack Obama can’t find someone to become CIA director

It took the Pentagon almost four months since a federal court ruled the government lacked sufficient evidence against Fouad al Rabia, but late last week -- a

Speaking of cybersecurity, Naval blogger Galrahn has a fascinating take on last week’s big Wall Street Journal story about insurgents in Iraq using an

On March 16, Shane Harris reported that Harold Koh, the State Department’s legal adviser, asserted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes on al-Qaeda and

Canada is willing to finance Michigan’s portion of a new international bridge between Detroit and Windsor and is prepared to absorb the loss if for some reason tolls do not generate enough revenue to repay the loan.

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Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the dubious assertion that the government does not create jobs. Speaking on CNBC, he said, Now, this

The Daily Progress’s writeup of a Tea Party-sponsored Republican candidate forum in Virginia’s 5th district -- seen as one of the best opportunities for the GOP

Christian Brose, a former speechwriter for secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, has an interesting post up at Foreign Policy magazine’s

If you look at The New York Times op-ed page today, you have a Les Gelb piece on how to withdraw from Afghanistan and a joint Max Boot/Kagan family piece on how

Here’s Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) statement on today’s passage of his amendment to strip F-22 funding from the defense authorization: Today’s vote is a

MARSHALL — The cleanup of the Midwest’s worst oil spill in Calhoun County last July 25 continues a year later, and officials from both Enbridge, the company that owns the pipeline, and the government agencies overseeing it say the spill has ‘unique challenges.’ “Capturing and cleaning up this heavy oil is a unique challenge,” said Susan Hedman, Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 director, during a press briefing last week. “No one at the EPA can remember dealing with this much submerged oil in a river.” The news comes on the one year anniversary of the spill.

The American Petroleum Institute, the powerful oil and gas industry trade association, is coming out against an amendment sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

Lawmakers have until midnight to tie up loose ends and implement a stop-gap budget solution. Sessions ran late into the night Wednesday, as lawmakers updated their social media accounts as to what had been settled — and what had not. Several weeks of budget gridlock has ultimately led the Legislature — now in it’s eighth extended week — to consider a one-month spending bill, with retroactive provisions, as a means to stop government shut down

The federal government was not prepared to determine how chemical dispersants should be used to break up oil in the event of a massive oil spill, a draft report