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More end zone dancing from the Republican National Committee chairman: “Tonight, Chris Christie exceeded all expectations by charging to victory in the heart

Glenn Thrush gets the Republican National Committee, via spokeswoman Katie Wright, to walk a few steps back from the health care survey that suggested Democrats

Jeanne Cummings digs through the RNC’s finance reports and comes out with details that don’t reflect well on Chairman Michael Steele’s spending habits. For

On today’s call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the RNC’s response to a new Democratic National Committee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the CIA and torture,

“I’d be OK if there were never any more coal,” retiring Xcel Energy CEO Dick Kelly recently told the non-profit news site MinnPost.com . Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado (where Xcel is the state’s largest electric utility), went on to question those in Congress denying the science behind global climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. Dick Kelly “I think the science is pretty solid

In his quick-turnaround book Right Now, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is notably less kind to former House candidate Dede Scozzafava

Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters on Monday he was glad the fuss surrounding the veto referendum to repeal Senate Bill 5 had kept the pressure off the

This morning, our Minnesota colleague Paul Schmeltzer noted that a conservative attack line that the coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death would be a “Wellstone

Last week, J.P. Morgan announced that it made a first-quarter profit of $3.3 billion on revenue of $28.2 billion, meaning for every dollar of business the bank

Newsweek reveals a series of newly released documents from the Department of Energy that shows all of the Republican members of the Michigan congressional delegation seeking stimulus funding for projects in the state on the grounds that such spending would create jobs — despite frequently claiming that the stimulus bill created no jobs. The story names Rep

Though several states, including Michigan, have decided to require natural gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in hydrofracking, many of those state regs have loopholes in them.

Amid his noticeably robust travel agenda these days, Gov. Rick Perry plans to stop in Colorado later this month to deliver the keynote address at the Western

It may come a surprise to some that the government has tougher safety standards for Cocoa Puffs than for Marlboros, but under current law, the Food and Drug

Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (Bullcrap.), suggests the

Immigration reform is impossible without some Republican support, but Democrats have an incentive to keep the issue in play anyway. Senate Majority Leader Harry

People who live with HIV/AIDS and their supporters marked HIV Vaccine Awareness Day yesterday, with their hopes put in the research to find a vaccine to prevent HIV infection. # The Aids Institute highlights on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day the progress that has been made in vaccine research and development, but for now the search continues. # The institute points out that minorities are disproportionally impacted.

GOP Senate non-incumbent candidates have raised more than Democrats. General David Petraeus’ potential for presidential candidacy may be hard to

The Michigan Messenger reports on a state legislature hearing about a proposal to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish, Mich., maximum-security

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims -- or, as Spencer puts it, simply lying -- on the

And here’s Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the Afghanistan war, testifying for the first time since his June congressional hearings. He praised an