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Afghanistan reporting appears to have ended in 2006 and in Iraq reports stopped in 2008.

Senate Democrats will continue their budget hearings into a second week, officials said Monday. Tuesday’s hearing will focus on property tax, which became a point of contention between Democrats and Gov

Greg Sargent flags a Michael Steele interview on Univision, in which the chairman of the Republican National Committee deflects a question about whether, per

Prayer, piety and God is what The Response was about, according to those organizing Gov. Rick Perry’s all-day prayer and fast last weekend — but critics

Republicans look to make the best of the Supreme Court nominees confirmation.

Adam Serwer reads Andy McCarthy’s comment in my piece today about information of any kind being unacceptably jeopardized by the day to day interactions of

I know it’s not helpful to have knee-jerk reactions to Wall Street pay, given that compensation is often more complicated than portrayed, but there’s no

It’s looking more and more like the forged Kenyan birth certificate released by Orly Taitz on Sunday was a prank by a supporter of President Obama. Politijab

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District yesterday voted unanimously to move forward with eight public/private partnership projects to store water in the Northern Everglades. The projects, which are known as dispersed water management, involve enlisting private landowners in solutions to help restore the Everglades and its tributaries. The district describes (.pdf) it simply as “shallow water distributed across parcel landscapes using relatively simple structures.” Several state conservation groups have been vocal advocates of the projects, which they say could provide benefits to both water storage and water quality

Colorado Fourth-District Republican US Rep Cory Gardner is filling his campaign coffers for 2012 as he did in 2010 by leaning heavily on oil-and-gas industry donors . He raked in $370,000 in the quarter that just ended. That’s the most of any candidate for federal office from Colorado and topped his take in previous quarters by roughly $100,000.

After nearly a day’s worth of radio silence from Langley about the suicide bombing at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan, this statement comes from Director

A new poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found a majority of Americans prefer that the federal government invest in public health. According to an executive summary (.pdf) of the polling data: A majority (52 percent) of Americans prefer a bigger government providing more services in health, rather than a smaller government providing fewer services in health (37 percent). In addition, six in ten believe that if U.S

Hoping for a big northeastern win Tuesday that would point to a Republican come-back, conservatives instead grapple with an inconclusive end.

Immigrants are the key to revitalizing Michigan’s economy, said Gov. Rick Snyder (R) at a New Media Conference at Wayne State University on Monday. The

In the RNC’s latest fundraising appeal, a website called nomorefrankens.com, the group makes a number of claims about the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race

It’s become conventional wisdom in Washington that beards are a detriment for most politicians on the campaign trail. In 2006, The Hill put it this

My friend Eli Lake reports for The Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate