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The New York Times came down hard on Minnesota Republicans in an editorial in today’s paper saying their “antitax radicalism” is “doing enormous damage at all levels.” It is preventing Wilmington, N.C., from buying a new fire truck, preventing the most vulnerable in dozens of states from receiving subsistence benefits, and may soon engulf the economy if the standoff in Washington does not end. In Minnesota, there is now a chance to draw a line and say, no further. The editorial argues that Minnesota Gov.

In my piece Wednesday about the Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq, I quoted a senior State Department official about diplomatic culture. He was reacting

That’s what Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who sponsored the bankruptcy reform bill that was slaughtered in the Senate Thursday, is saying. From The Hill: “I

Dick Cheney’s continued insistence that the torture techniques used by the CIA and DOD on terror suspects, or associates of terror suspects, or anyone they

Just want to point out that fivethirtyeight’s polling chart for California’s Proposition 8 (to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage) looks exactly

UPDATE: May 3, 10:47 a.m. EST: This article was amended with a clarification, noted below. Anti-abortion rights marketing group Heroic Media is expanding

The controversial Austrian School economist, who won Internet fame for a video of his many predictions of a housing bubble burst, is strongly considering a

President Obama told reporters today that two relief wells being drilled to permanently stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo well are

A Senate aide says the renewable energy standard a bipartisan group of senators will unveil tomorrow will use the target in Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) energy

Appearing on CNBC yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) decried the Democrats’ plans to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans by mandat that people have

While Comcast awaits a final decision from the FCC on its acquisition of NBC Universal, it was also busy in court arguing that the FCC’s ban on withholding

According to a Pew Hispanic Center report released this week, “Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats.” The report states : Overall Latinos represent a greater share of eligible voter and resident populations in states that will gain seats than they do in states that will lose seats. Among eligible voters, in states that will gain seats 15.2% are Latino, while in states that will lose seats just 5.4% are Latino.

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory last night over Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary, pundits are asking how in the world she did

An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and other conservative groups calls

Even more affluent consumers are failing to pay their mortgages and credit card bills on time, the Financial Times reports. JPMorganChase chief executive

According to two people with intimate knowledge of the vaccine court, the compensation that will be paid to Hannah Poling is not the first paid by the court to

Probably the best possible conclusion to this week’s Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. trilateral talks didn’t come from Washington. Last night, Pakistani Prime

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims remained high, at 456,000. That is a decline of 3,000 from last week’s claim,

Just 44 percent of Americans support an expansion of offshore oil drilling, according to a new Fox News poll -- down from 54 percent three weeks ago and 70

It turned out money couldn’t buy a revolution.

A study of medical marijuana users in California, conducted by The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, has found that medical marijuana users are in some ways just as stereotype would suggest: young men using marijuana for pain relief. In other ways, however, the study reached some startling conclusions, namely that medical marijuana users are less likely to use alcohol, cocaine or prescription drugs than the population as a whole

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.