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I’ve got a copy of Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence, which is as chock-full of remembered conversations as a D.C. memoir should be. The first conversation

Reports that only 25 percent of eligible homeowners have applied for inclusion in President Obama’s $75 billion mortgage modification program and only 5 percent

Tea Party Nation blasted out an email asking its Tennessee members to protest Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and stop financial reform legislation -- which

The New Mexico Department of Corrections is fining GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison operator, $1.1 million for understaffing one of its prisons. GEO manages three of the four private prisons in the state, including Lea County Correctional Facility, where from September of 2010 to March of 2011 one out of every four jobs were vacant

Dave Itzkoff ribs Sarah Palin, in perfect New York Times style, for a strange complaint made on the program formerly known as The Tonight Show With Conan

This is pretty unbelievable. Rex Rammell, a longshot candidate for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination in Idaho (longtime pol Butch Otter, a fellow

The Minnesota Service Employees International Union today announced plans to “dramatically increase” its donations to the Alliance for a Better Minnesota in order to run advertisements criticizing the state’s GOP-controlled legislature over the budget impasse that led to the government shutdown.

In a move that may help them stay in office despite radical reformulations of their districts by the Republicans that control the state redistricting process, Detroit Democrats Hansen Clarke and John Conyers are expected to swap districts in the race for reelection in 2012. Clarke, 54, the first member of Congress of Bangledeshi descent and a former chief of staff for Conyers, is serving his first term in the House. In 2010 he defeated district 13‘s longtime Democratic representative, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick amid fallout from the corruption indictment of her husband and son, Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor

Early Friday morning , Miami-Dade County Commissioners voted to approve county Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s proposed budget of $6.1 billion, which includes funding to enforce the county’s wage theft ordinance. According to a press release issued Thursday by the mayor’s office: “The Wage Theft Ordinance has proven to be an effective tool for promoting economic security and dignity for those working in the County

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. More reactions to the Baucus bill today. Four key moderate senators -- Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Ben

Several 2012 GOP candidates have released official statements following this morning’s announcement by former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty that his campaign would be ending on its third place finish at the Ames Straw Poll. “Tim Pawlenty and his entire team ran an honorable campaign,” said former Massachusetts Gov.

Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter today defended his decision to go against the Colorado Democratic Party and vote with the state’s GOP majority in supporting Republican Cory Gardner’s controversial Jobs and Energy Permitting Act (H.R. 2021). Rep.

On Oct. 14, Wells Fargo, which holds the second largest number of bank deposits in the U.S., will begin testing a $3 monthly fee for debit cards in New Mexico and four other states. The fee applies to all cardholders and will be triggered if you use the debit card for online or in-person purchases.

Greg Sargent has obtained the request Dick Cheney filed for CIA documents he claims will prove that torture worked. They’re for two CIA reports: One is dated

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work

A few months ago, Congressman Jared Polis told the Colorado Independent that he thought it would take a majority of states legalizing medical marijuana or otherwise liberalizing their laws before Congress would be likely to do anything at the federal level.

Building a Better Ohio, a group formed to support anti-collective bargaining legislation that will go before voters in November via a veto referendum known as

I spent the weekend at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, where it was not hard to find and buy Third Reich memorabilia, so this, about the man who

As Sen. John McCain continues to tout offshore drilling -- and others in Congress start to jump on the bandwagon -- he’s found it necessary to downplay the

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) and its Board of Regents has made preliminary steps in satisfying the federal government’s grant of roughly

About 200 people, representing a diverse array of organizations and unions, marched in Miami on Tuesday to demand accountability from Bank of America and to support the Occupy Miami movement . The protest came on the same day the Bank of America announced it is dropping a controversial proposal to charge $5 for using debit card use. The march originated at the Greater Bethel AME Church in Overtown, a historically black neighborhood, met with members of Occupy Miami, camped out in what they call Peace City, and arrived at the downtown building of Bank of America