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DENVER– Depending on whether or not related legal action restarts in US district court here, Colorado lawmakers plan to take up the question of which voters county clerks will be required to mail ballots to in future elections. “We’re batting around a lot of different ideas,” state Representative Crisanta Duran , D-Denver, told the Colorado Independent. “We’ll be looking at where there’s common ground

For his fourth blockbuster appearance on Capitol Hill in 18 months, Gen. David Petraeus pulled off what might have been his most impressive feat yet: saying

The National Republican Congressional Committee is going after swing-district Democrats over sexually transmitted disease-prevention funding in the stimulus,

Defense Secretary Robert Gates just gave his opening statement at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan. The Afghanistan war is necessary

Interviews with officials in Washington and Kabul reveal a contracting process in which it is remarkably difficult to deny a contract to a security company involved in numerous civilian deaths and possible fraud.

The Department of Justice today announced new guidelines for federal prosecutions of medical marijuana, indicating a new leniency in states that have legalized

U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul is holding a 3 p.m. rally in Lexington, Ky. to support Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) block on extending unemployment and health

The Iowa Independent reports that earlier this week, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.),

Among the many hot-button issues that President Obama weighed in on during his presidential campaign and followed up on in his first week in office, immigration

Freshman Democrat Alan Grayson, a bit of an iconoclast who’s backing Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) Audit the Fed bill, appeared on the out-there Alex Jones show

To thousands of unemployed folks, two very different events are conspiring to pose an imminent threat to their federal benefits: (1) The deadline to file for

Something that couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday but bears mentioning: Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia,

Gov. Sarah Palin sat for an interview with The Anchorage Daily News in her Wasilla home, where moose chili was simmering in a crock pot. The whole interview

Dick Armey has too many goats to run for president. Focus on the Family thinks anti-bullying efforts are part of a gay agenda. Gmail will help you avoid

The 10 members of the panel named by Congress to investigate the causes of last year’s economic implosion appear to be wrestling with their role in this year’s

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Barack Obama is presumably enjoying his first day as president-elect, but he also got right to work. After an hour at Regents Park this

In a little more than a year, Colorado may become the first state to legalize marijuana. Between now and then, prepare to meet petition waving enthusiasts. In fact, prepare to meet competing petition wavers as it is quite likely that at least two different pro-marijuana groups will propose at least two different legalization schemes

Republicans are working overtime today to make political hay out of Colorado Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff’s revelation that the White House suggested three

Congress reporter Mike Lillis reports that with both ends of the political spectrum unhappy with a Senate bill meant to curb the effects of global warming and

As Detroit moves to turn more of its public schools into charter schools, a new study indicates that students at most of the city’s charter schools have lower scores than those in the public system.

After a bit of a late summer lag, opponents of Ohio’s collective-bargaining-reform law, Senate Bill 5, have regained a definitive lead, according to a recent

The Brooklyn body of the National Labor Relations Board has gathered more evidence that Target intimidated workers by threatening to close a store if a union was approved in a vote this summer. The new charges could be enough evidence for an administrative law judge to recommend that the election results be overturned, Alvin Blyer of the regional NLRB told the Minnesota Independent. The union lost the June election at Valley Stream, N.Y., 137-85, but has filed a number of objections with the NLRB for intimidation and illegal firing of a union supporter, according to the National Labor Relations Board.