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Why’s that? Because Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut’s popular attorney general, has already announced that he’ll be entering the race for the seat soon to be

The Senate this morning voted to end debate (ie, kill a filibuster) on legislation to give residents of Washington, D.C., a voting member in the House of

Yesterday, when it leaked that President Obama will put forward a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq in 19 months, I figured antiwar activists wouldn’t

Panetta accuses Cheney of wishing harm on the U.S., and Republicans aren’t exactly rushing to the former VP’s defense. On a single page, The Washington Times

Bill Clinton’s camp didn’t appreciate John Edwards’ hypocrisy about extramarital affairs. Mike Castle can’t win as a write-in candidate for Delaware. The

Barring the results of a fraud commission’s recount of 10 percent of the ballots in the Afghanistan election, Hamid Karzai’s victory has been tallied at 54

Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) has been out of the public eye for two years, and I’d forgotten how he can reduce everything to a football metaphor. An example, from

Via Michael Shedlock, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reviews the growing problem of zombie subdivisions, those half-built developments you often see from a

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March jobs report this morning and the news was a bit better than expected, with 216,000 new jobs created during the month and a drop of .1 percent in the unemployment rate. There was no drop in labor force participation, which indicates that this is a real drop in unemployment rather than a fake one.

Via Ben Smith, it seems meaningful that Sarah Palin’s camp explained her decision not to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference with two

Whoever wins the Republican National Committee chairmanship today might want to tweak the party’s Website. Unless, of course, he wants voters to think George

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is asked by Fox News whether his RNC would support primary challengers to the moderate Republican

It’s not quite like naming an aircraft carrier after a recently retired chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, but creating an Ike Skelton Chair of

Rassmussen Reports, the pollster whose surveys of likely voters most often show the worst numbers for President Obama and the Democrats, finds support for

WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being

Documents released quietly over the holiday weekend raises doubts about the Bush administration’s portrayal of Gitmo.

Sen. John Kerry urged President Obama to endorse a campaign targeted at the Pashtun areas of south and eastern Afghanistan, provided that the U.S. could also boost civilian governance and development projects to consolidated military success.

The private security company, renamed Xe Services, objects to my use of the verb stole to refer to the guns it got from the U.S. military in Afghanistan in

In a tweet sent out this morning, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, says that the EPA must stop using “activist/ junk science or lose their funding.” According to his Twitter account, Ross will be meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, one-on-one. Jackson has been criticized for her role as the head of the agency now often deemed a “job killer” and has been especially scrutinized for her role in a set of numeric nutrient criteria that are mandated for the state of Florida.

This took pretty much forever. Rumor has it -- and it’s pure rumor, but blog-worthy rumor -- that there was friction over making former Clinton administration