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Rand Paul came out swinging against the Environmental Protection Agency this weekend, arguing that President Obama is forcing the EPA down out throats. The

Are we making up for our DOT pick? President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Rep. Hilda Solis to head the Dept. of Labor, according to reports. The California

Good help may be hard to find, but when it comes to security staff for this summer’s national political conventions, it’s apparently just this side

A Canadian company hoping to revive the long-dormant uranium mining hotbed of southwestern Colorado is touting an economic report prepared for Montrose County showing world uranium demand is expected to double in the coming year, according to the Telluride Daily Planet . But opponents of Energy Fuels’ proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill – what would be the nation’s first new processing facility in nearly three decades if it’s ever built – don’t put much stock in the new economic report produced for Montrose County by Economic & Planning Systems, Inc .

According to a podcast recorded by the Birthers who are walking around Washington handing out Citizen’s Grand Jury presentments, they’re delivering a package

A last-minute Bush era rule upends immigrant rights to re-open a case if they could show that they were denied a fair hearing due to their lawyer’s mistakes.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the new ranking Republican on the the Senate Judiciary Committee, just made quite clear the pressure on Homeland Security

Via Danger Room, it appears the Blackwater private security company has gone in for a bit of cynical rebranding: Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its

The political animals that roam Mayor Richard Daley’s City Hall are pragmatic deal-makers above all else, including ideology. They would rather win you over than roll you over. Power politics is a bipartisan affair in the Windy City.

No, really. Via Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that more and more people are being picked up and tossed in jail to satisfy

... As a punchline at last night’s Gridiron Dinner in Washington. Mike Allen reports on Vice President Joe Biden’s routine: You know, I never realized just how

It’s the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and President Obama recorded a video message to the Iranian people, intended to indicate respect for their cultural heritage.

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey, explaining how he can defeat Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.): Reagan carried this state twice. I don’t think this state has

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has catalyzed as much hysteria as it has environmental stewardship. During the holiday’s first half-decade of observance,

Reading The Washington Post’s write-up of Adm. Mullen’s call for a second U.S. troop deployment in Afghanistan this year, this poll figure stands out: the

Looking beyond troop buildup, a liberal national security group seeks common ground on the war.

One of the strangest figures in the universe of Barack Obama conspiracy theories is Lawrence Sinclair, a 47-year old man with a long criminal record who, as Ben

Gov. Susana Martinez announced Monday that she will call the Legislature back to work beginning on September 6, six days earlier than the Legislative Council wanted. Redistricting will be on the agenda