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Many legislatures have rejected ’Arizona-style’ legislation out of concern for the price tag.

Shortly after Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told a Senate panel this morning that we are regaining the initiative and insurgency

An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded

Later this month, the Texas Senate is expected to vote on the 2012-13 $164.5 billion budget that passed the House earlier this month.The House version includes

Last night, the House passed the so-called “Cut, Cap and Balance Act” in a largely symbolic 234-190 vote. Because of its cuts, the bill isn’t likely to make headway in the Democrat-dominated Senate, but what does the act aim to do and who among Florida’s congressional delegation voted for it? # The basics of the plan : # Cut: Requires nearly $111 billion cuts in spending.

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich is expected to officially announce his presidential candidacy for 2012 Wednesday, according to his Facebook page.

This Reuters article talks about all the defense firms that hope Massachusetts’ next senator is as friendly. While I suppose Kennedy’s status as a liberal icon

Two Iowa labor experts — one a former labor attorney with more than 25 years experience and the other a communications professor who has extensively studied labor and the media — agree that it is difficult to view actions taken by the chairman of the U.S.

Patterico brings to my attention this argument from blogger Brad Friedman: n mid-February of this year, after we’d called out O’Keefe as a liar for

Is there an echo in here? In The New York Times today, op-ed columnist David Brooks blasts the Democrats’ House-passed stimulus package with the charge that

Today, a poll from Gallup shows where the uptick in consumer spending is coming from: the wealthy, and the wealthy only. Americans earning more than $90,000 a

A lawyer assisting the dozens of Occupy Des Moines demonstrators arrested earlier this month on charges of trespassing on State Capitol grounds says Iowa State Patrol officers showed a “level of brutality … I hadn’t seen in the over 20 years I’d been here.” Sally Frank, a professor at the Drake University Law School, said the officers that arrested the demonstrators used pepper spray, cuffed the demonstrators too tightly and dragged them away. The tight cuffing has left some of the demonstrators with numbness, she said, and one of the people arrested had his arm injured by the officers. “The Des Moines Police Department doesn’t do that and knows how to deal with protesters and do it professionally and appropriately,” Frank said

An analysis of Obama’s proposed surtax on millionaires to fund his job program will be paid by an infinitesimally small percentage of American taxpayers, and

Well, he doesn’t get to go free, but Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri -- the last remaining enemy combatant who was picked up and held for the past six years without

While President Obama may choose to end the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling a month early, it doesn’t look like we’ll see any new drilling until

With Congress back in session after the July 4 holiday, the legislative schedule in the Senate is extremely cramped. There’s the financial regulatory reform

While the government’s use of private security contractors has garnered no end of criticism, the highest-profile blunders and abuses have come from companies that work not for the Pentagon, but for the State Department.

No counterinsurgency leadership conference would be complete without the U.S. military’s chief theorist-practitioner of counterinsurgency, Army Gen. David

In a shift of power that could prove vital to the Obama administration’s energy-policy successes, House Democrats Thursday morning voted to oust Rep. John

Tim Griffin, a controversial figure in the U.S attorney firing scandal, is a source of new optimism among Bush-era Republicans.