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As part of a campaign announcement that Ron Paul would be attending the upcoming Iowa GOP Reagan Dinner , the Texas Congressman’s presidential campaign staff noted their commitment to the Iowa caucus process. “Iowa has always been an important state in establishing momentum and shaping the national debate,” said John Tate, campaign manager.

To take one more crack at Adm. Michael Mullen’s comments after a Columbia University address yesterday, it’s certainly clear that the chairman of the Joint

Anti-Lowe’s protesters at Saturday’s rally A Saturday demonstration outside of a Lowe’s home improvement store in a Detroit suburb brought out more than 150 local residents and religious leaders and even one state representative — all of whom were protesting the chain’s decision to pull its ads from the TLC reality show All-American Muslim after receiving numerous calls to do so by the Florida Family Association. The group demonstrated outside of the Lowe’s in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where All-American Muslim is filmed

On Nov. 12, 2008, eight days after California voters stripped gay and lesbian couples of their short-lived right to marry, syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage

With only a couple of weeks to go before several 2012 candidates face off in the Ames Straw Poll, the world is about to see who has best balanced the game of Hawkeye State momentum and expectations. These opinions and predictions have been culled from our staff members, additional state political reporters, party activists, academics, elected officials, political consultants and other insiders. While unscientific, the ranks provide insights that cannot be garnered in traditional polling or from any one pundit as to a candidate’s organizational strength in Iowa.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who’s testifying this morning before the House Financial Services Committee on legislation empowering the White House to take

The Guardian, fleshing out Siobhan Gorman’s Wall Street Journal piece today on the secret CIA significant actions that Director Leon Panetta cancelled last

Despite Hasan’s reported contacts with an al-Qaeda-connected cleric in Yemen, the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and FBI will handle the probe.

Sportsmen aren’t necessarily opposing an anti-wilderness bill co-sponsored by three Colorado Republicans because they’re enamored with the Colorado Roadless Rule, which would likely be derailed by the bill after six long years of negotiation. They just want the ability to keep trying to improve the Colorado rule

Last month, the Afghan government sent a delegation to Washington to advise the White House strategy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Several delegates

Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) office sends word that the Senate will vote on cloture on the nomination of Cass Sunstein after a debate this hour. At 4:45pm, the

Of all the talking points emerging from the conservative side about the 9/11 trials, the prospect of attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed getting set free in

When I wrote my earlier post about the group of illustrious Americans urging the Obama administration to close Guantanamo and bring suspected terrorists to

We wrote last week at the Independent about the tendency of presidential candidates to put on a blue collar persona when they campaign in states like Ohio.

President Barack Obama vowed to protect and extend veterans support services at a speech to 5,000 members of the American Legion Tuesday in Minneapolis. While the president spoke inside the Minneapolis Convention Center, protesters outside were concerned with issues ranging from the environment to the war in Afghanistan

A bill to renew federal tax credits for solar and wind energy has been stuck in Congress all year. That’s made business owners and employees in the industry

For almost four years, the fate of U.S. border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had been a sort of cause celebre among immigration restrictionists.

Among the most contentious questions facing Senate Finance Committee members this week revolves around how much flexibility the states should have to set their

U.S. Senator Mark Udall Thursday night issued a statement saying Congress needs to pass a budget and keep the government running. He accused Republicans in the House of playing politics by using climate change and abortion to score political points

Here’s some interesting green news coming out of Beijing: the city’s Olympic Village has become the first to win a green building certification. The

The latest word on the Justice Department’s Office Of Professional Responsibility review of the Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted the so-called

Question of the day: Can guards for your company kill Afghan civilians, set up shell companies to win contracts, siphon off weapons intended for the Afghan