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In the House, the appropriations committee is marking up spending bills, which means that rhetoric about earmarks is about to ramp up. Yesterday, the House

While the new-look Texas Legislature has grabbed the spotlight with an unprecedented attack on state spending, taking place behind the scenes and on smaller

When President George W. Bush wrote on February 7, 2002 that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees, he took the first step down a slippery slope of legal interpretation that he and members of his administration may come to regret.

In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

An executive from BP will be asked to testify at a July 29 hearing on the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of organizing the 1988 bombing of

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- or half of it, more accurately -- has begun its first day of markup of the landmark Kerry-Boxer climate

Conservatives are having no trouble spinning Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) surprise cut-and-run from her office as an act of personal heroism that will help her

Police in Oak Park have dropped the case against Julie Bass for having a garden in her front yard. Instead, the city is pursuing criminal charges against her for failing to have her two dogs licensed. Bass made headlines around the world after she went public about the garden fray with Oak Park officials

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on April 16, 2009. These are medieval documents,

The Michigan Messenger’s Minehaha Forman has the details: The FBI has offered Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers a plea deal involving her apparent

This doesn’t have much actual bearing on the case of Matthew Hoh, the top U.S. civilian official in Zabul Province, resigning from the State Department in

A new study by one of the leading auto industry analysis firms concludes that the American domestic automobile market will rebound to a full 16 million vehicles sold by the year 2013, a number that would be near the highest rates of the last decade. The Detroit Free Press reports : New vehicle sales in the U.S

The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill -- passed out of Congress yesterday and headed for President Obama’s desk next week -- runs for 2,300 pages,

For the past few weeks, anti-abortion rights organizations and news services have been advertising a webcast featuring one of the stars of the resurgent

The Iowa Independent reports that in his latest Human Events column, action-movie star and karate guy Chuck Norris has endorsed Bob Vander Plaats, a Sioux City

The Senate is set (in a few minutes) to vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just took to the

Duty calls on the home front, and the Governoress simply can’t be bothered with trifles from the press.

Mixing classic rightwing economics and Christianist populism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a rapt crowd in a Minneapolis hotel Tuesday night that “government is taking from the overly happy and redistributing to the insufficiently happy.”

Recent policies put both illegal and legal works at risk.

Texas Gov.

PITTSBURGH - The conversation with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) heated up a bit as he took questions on what he could do to bring Republicans on board with