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The lobbying industry enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2008, according to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit that tracks money in

The Orange County Register has named Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who briefly became a weird kind of political celebrity, as one of the region’s top

As a party, Republicans want to have it both ways on immigration -- to tout anti-immigration policies without alienating Latino voters. On Monday, for

Today, there are two stories worth reading on the nexus of big finance and education. The first, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, reports that Nelnet -- a

Anti-abortion rights group Operation Rescue turned over to the Texas Attorney General the results of an investigation containing scathing allegations against a

It’s tax time 2011, which means it’s the second anniversary of the Tea Party. It’s also nearly a week after the first great Washington budget battle of the Tea Party-era in what’s sure to be a series of similar battles pitting the Republican-controlled House against the Democratic-controlled Senate and President Obama.

This thread at the Right Side of Life, keying off of a FreeRepublic.com thread, is actually a pretty useful look at the way facts bounce off of the birther

Last month, Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, gave an interview to The Washington Post bragging about the impact the CIA’s drone strikes have had on

The good news: Initial jobless benefit claims declined last week, to 453,000. Economists had expected jobless claims to come in at 455,000. The bad news: The

Andy Martin, the Chicago Internet powerhouse (his own words!) who started the unfounded rumor that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim and later pushed the

It’s been one year since then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey proposed that Congress pass legislation declaring a new, expanded war with al-Qaeda and the Taliban -- thereby granting the president the authority to detain indefinitely members of those groups anywhere in the world.

Charlie Crist gets almost as much Democratic support as the party’s likely nominee in a new Florida Senate poll. Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff transfers

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice gave a speech in Israel yesterday urging that peace demands more than lip service, an unsubtle dig at Prime Minister Benjamin

It’s no news that many liberal critics of the Democrats’ stimulus plan are wondering why so much would go toward tax rebates and so little, relatively speaking,

I just called the American Enterprise Institute for a forthcoming TWI story about the importance of Nouri al-Maliki’s de facto endorsement of Barack Obama’s

Charles Homans delves into the history of Culture11, the witty, wide-ranging libertarian/conservative web magazine (full disclosure: I wrote for it) that

Something I didn’t know but Brandon Friedman at VoteVets did: a staff sergeant leading an infantry squad in Afghanistan makes, with combat pay, about $44,500

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson is about the furthest thing from a bleeding-heart apologist for criminal behavior. But in his column in

It’s got to be this one from OurCountryDeservesBetter PAC. It cites Obama’s own doctor as an opponent of President Obama’s health care plan, even though Dr.

Florida resident, one-time presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will act as keynote speaker at an anti-abortion “Personhood” banquet in Jackson, Miss., on Sept.

Jane Mayer has written a thorough and engaging piece about the Koch brothers for the latest issue of the New Yorker. While some have quipped that it falls

Following up on Spencer’s post, while President Obama’s critics are silent on the detention of alleged would-be Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk

This is interesting. A group of thousands of scientists, engineers and science buffs called Science Debate 2008 got Sen. Obama and Sen. McCain to answer 14