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WIth both parties’ national conventions now several weeks in the past, it’s safe to say we are back in the real world when it comes to polling data -- and a

Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette railed Thursday against the effort led by Colorado Republican Rep

I noticed her quote in The Washington Post this morning, but now the Nobel laureate and human rights activist has her own op-ed up at The Huffington Post. Her

Maj. Stefan F. Cook, who is refusing to be deployed because of his belief in conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s citizenship, is a member of, and

President Obama meeting school children last week. (White House)

Colorado’s congressional delegation split 4-3 tonight as the U.S. House voted 269-161 to pass a debt ceiling deal that’s expected to win approval in the Senate on Tuesday. Democrat Diana DeGette joined Republicans Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton in voting no on the measure, while Democrats Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter voted for the deal along with Republicans Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner

The anti-gay, politically influential Christian organization the Indiana Family Institute (IFI) has been endorsed by the State of Indiana as “collaborative

The American Petroleum Institute today announced that it is putting 160 industry standards online for the first time, part of an effort to be more transparent

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asks, what about extraordinary rendition? Will the CIA under Leon Panetta continue to seize terrorism suspects and outsource

The Michigan House of Representatives passed an anti-bullying measure this afternoon that does not include the religious exception language that was in a similar bill passed by the Senate last week. The bill passed 88-18. The House bill, like the Senate bill, is unenumerated — that is, it does not include a list of groups that are routinely subjected to bullying or reasons why kids are often bullied, such as religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity and so forth.

An amendment to the Patriot Act provision authorizing National Security Letters that would have required the letters to target only people with some connection

A study released Thursday by a University of Texas at Austin researcher says UT is one of the most efficient schools in the country, by some measures of

Mike Lillis has been following the FISA debate for months now. Today it all ends with Senate Democrats caving on telecom immunity.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told POLITICO he would get there on corralling Republican votes for the budget deal that averted a government

Michigan workers who are hurt on the job could face reduced workers’ compensation benefits if legislation passed by the state House becomes law.

Over at The New Mexico Independent, Matthew Reichbach reports on a disturbing series of Twitter messages advocating violence against members of left-leaning

The New York Times has the details of the funding program to support Pakistani troops in counterinsurgency that Gen. David Petraeus and Undersecretary of

Spencer Ackerman gives us the run down on the implications for Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s comments to Der Spiegel magazine.

The Center for Competitive Politics is touting a new poll conducted at their request by Pulse Opinion Research, claiming that it refutes previous public

In an interview with The Mount Airy News, a newspaper based out of Mount Airy, N.C., (a small town best known as the inspiration for Andy Griffith’s