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Snowe gets a nice reward for her yea vote. Here’s what she’s likely to ask for. Dole and other pro-health reform Republicans stand to profit from their

Aztec, N.M., maintains it is no “sanctuary,” and for months has led a campaign to shed the designation.

TPM has a great roundup today of the escalating Republican argument that closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility could be all but impossible because --

Barry Ritholtz posts a clear summary of the foreclosure process, to help understand the massive unfolding foreclosure fraud scandal. Here is, document by

With all eyes on the political battle brewing over Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, it’s easy to forget that the tougher congressional fight

After months of denials that the architects of November’s horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai had anything to do with Pakistan, the Pakistani government

Gun control advocates say North Carolina’s limits on gun purchases reduce the likelihood of the type of rampage that erupted Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., but

No sooner did this story go out about the Obama administration’s strained ties with U.S. Muslim organizations than comes this announcement from the

Yesterday, in fact. Sponsored by Reps. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the bill would allow U.S. farmers to grow industrial, non-psychoactive

Today’s Washington Post notes a new report from the Project on Government Oversight detailing the problems faced by Inspectors General, the chief auditing

According to Census Bureau data and an analysis by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, New Mexico has the fifth-highest proportion of same-sex couples among the states: 9.8 out of 1,000 households are headed by a same-sex couple.

From the Banking Committee, they are Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), Jack Reid (D-R.I.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.),

John Gizzi of Human Events gets an interview with Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) in which the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee gleefully

This morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying before the House Committee on the Budget about the current economic situation and the federal

With unemployment tickling 10 percent (and likely to rise), Senate Democrats this week are hoping to push through a series of bills designed to encourage job

If it’s true, as reported, that the question of the CIA’s drone strikes against al-Qaeda in Pakistan is bolstering support for the so-called counterterrorism

During the Q&A that makes up the bulk of my Sarah Palin piece today, radio host and Media Malpractice documentary filmmaker John Ziegler attacked Andrew

Every now and then, as I turn from Florida Avenue NW and walk north on Connecticut to get to The Washington Independent offices, I come across Donald Rumsfeld,

A group of Colorado kids filed suit last week against the State of Colorado, Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado Department of Health and Environment, Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, and Colorado Department of Natural Resources as part of a coordinated effort to force action on climate change. Similar suits have been filed in all 50 states and against the federal government.

I was struck by the ability of Alan Keyes to stay on message at the Washington, D.C. Tea Party and not babble about President Obama’s citizenship. But I guess

Over the past four years, the office at the Centers for Disease Control that is responsible for vaccine safety has undergone numerous leadership changes,