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Various interest groups are touting infrastructure investment as a particularly effective economic stimulus strategy because, they claim, such projects can

The effort within the McCain campaign’s upper ranks to pin Sen. John McCain’s loss of the presidential election on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now in full swing,

As the fight over union rights continues to rage in Wisconsin, at least four other states have become battlegrounds as well. It has been reported that Iowa,

I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now. After telling the government last week that it has no

The Obama administration’s move today to install strict new fuel efficiency and emission standards for the nation’s vehicles has left some Michigan Democrats in

The U.S. House of Representative’s move to strip federal funding from any program related in any way to abortion could have wide-reaching consequences

Party strategists hope to harness voter anger at unemployment with anti-spending rhetoric.

The New York Times and CoreLogic examined the data, and found that the rich are more likely to purposefully default on their mortgages -- to strategically

Though Sonia Sotomayor has strong support from Democrats, there’s been some concern that the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Sotomayor and

The Associated Press is reporting that Samantha Power will get a job on the National Security Council staff. (That’s via Laura Rozen and Matthew Yglesias.) It’s

The Brady Campaign, the anti-gun group that had experienced a rather tough run during the Bush administration, is pointing out that three Republican senators

I’ll have a story up soon on today’s testimony from Warren Buffett, the head of investment giant Berkshire Hathaway, to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

The national anti-abortion rights group Personhood USA, whose main efforts are to help states pass so-called “personhood” constitutional amendments, has

Two bills sponsored by Iowa House Republicans could have significant public safety consequences, and perhaps the most unnerving of those potential outcomes would be the justifiable use of deadly force against abortion or family planning providers. When the two pieces of legislation are combined they create a situation where a fertilized egg would be considered a person, and allow for the public execution of those who would threaten such a person. If passed into law, the two bills — House File 7 and House File 153 — would offer an unprecedented defense opportunity to individuals who stand accused of killing such providers, according to a former prosecutor and law professor at the University of Kansas, and are something that might have very well led to a different outcome in the Kansas trail of the man who shot Dr.

Still lethal, if today’s coordinated bombings in Baghdad are any indication. But in the wake of last week’s surprise killings of AQI leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri

Over at Big Hollywood, Andrew Breitbart’s banging new pan-ideological movies site, Roger L. Simon gives us an excerpt of his new book about how being a

I see where Republicans are with this, said one GOP aide in the House, but it drives me insane. What happens if you run, win, and don’t repeal?

The last time I wrote about the case of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, the government had just conceded that its primary evidence -- his confessions --

“Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin. I used to introduce myself as a UT professor,

Short answer: Hard to say. Long answer: Retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) has been a moderate voice on environmental policy -- he voted for cloture on the

Updated at 12:45 p.m. EST to add comments from the Louisiana Democratic Party The Times-Picayune has obtained an invitation for a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser to