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Politico had a story this weekend looking ahead to how Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the country, will swing politically in 2012.

More on that last point, building on something Soufan just said. The top CIA interrogator at the Abu Zubaydah interrogation was 100 percent in sync with the

The stock market continued its cliff diving today, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor’s 500 Index closing at their lowest levels

As Daphne blogged earlier today, Dawn Johnsen of Indiana University Law School is going to helm the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legal Counsel, a crucial position

The Tea Party movement seems to have quieted down as Republicans found a more grippable political issue with Guantanamo Bay. Nonetheless, motivational speaker

This is the danger of relying too much on preliminary documents in a town where nothing’s final ’til it’s final. As the official summary of the compromise

An updated forecast by the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows that net farm income for 2011 will reach $103.6 billion, up $24.5 billion from 2010. All three measures of farm sector earnings (net farm income, net cash income, and net value added) are forecast to rise more than 20 percent in 2011. Net farm income, according to ERS, reflects income from production in the current year, whether or not sold within the calendar year, and is a measure of the increase in wealth from production.

Pic by Smithers7, via Wikimedia Commons A report released earlier this month by the NAACP found that Florida is among the states with the “most restrictive” felon disenfranchisement “laws in the country” — one of many aspects of the state’s voting practices that will limit voter participation among minorities, according to the group.

The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs -- a lot of it directed at Chairman

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday to force the Obama administration to make a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1

Via Matt Yglesias, the latest Gallup poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support more deficit-increasing stimulus to create new jobs and jump-start the

Private for-profit prison companies spend millions of dollars every year lobbying at the local, state and federal levels for stricter immigration laws and enforcement. The largest such company, Corrections Corporation of America, spent more than $18 million on such activities between 1999 and 2009, reports Fox News. The company is even involved in writing immigration legislation which legislators can then introduce into state legislatures

If there was one single campaign action or movement from the past two weeks that could be drawn out and held up as brilliant, most of our panelists believe it is a tiny tag line implemented by U.S. Rep

A GOP congressman calls it quits, but Dems still have more to lose from their retirements. Romer says the stimulus is (partly) to thank for today’s good

The congressional reaction this week to Israel’s recent and deadly raid on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza has, for the most part, fit neatly into three camps:

Members of the House Education and Labor Committee are holding a satellite hearing this morning in Beckley, W.Va., to examine the Upper Big Branch mine

Make tomorrow the second time President Obama will talk to Gen. Stanley McChrystal since McChrystal took command in Afghanistan. The White House just announced

Conservative policy group Americans United for Life’s stated plans to help defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) one state at a time were

The Ingham County Board of Commissioners are debating internally two resolutions which they think will address a “dysfunctional” road commission. The first proposal, introduced by Republicans who are a minority on the board, would demand the resignation of Shirley Rogers, the Road Commission chairperson. A second proposal, introduced by Democratic Commission Chair Mark Grebner, would demand the resignation of all five members of the Road Commission, reports the Lansing State Journal

As Congress vows to investigate possible violations at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine -- where at least 25 miners were killed in an explosion yesterday