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Ben Smith finds some news in Sarah Palin’s all-over-the-place Hong Kong speech. Despite the need to move men and material by air into theaters like

Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), the only Republican to offer the least bit of support for the Democrats’ health reform legislation this year, said Tuesday that she

More than 75 environmental and conservation groups have signed a petition calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to halt all oil sands projects that would

Since the vice presidential debate last week, the McCain campaign has quietly increased Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s availability to the media. Instead of

Speaking at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing today about torture, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) appeared to confirm reports that the Obama

Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale (Pic by Debra Todd, via Facebook) Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared today at a Washington, D.C. breakfast fundraiser for Rep

After much of the day’s news was dominated by Wikileaks’ distribution of a graphic video purporting to show U.S. military personnel in Iraq in 2007 firing from

Some very just desserts on this Columbus Day morning: Peter Diamond, a lauded economist at MIT, won the Nobel Prize, along with Dale T. Mortensen and

School voucher opponents in Indiana were dealt a massive setback to overturning the state’s recently passed Indiana Choice Scholarship Program (CSP) when a

The Republican National Committee has sent reporters a radio actuality by John Bolton, President George W. Bush’s controversial ex-U.N. ambassador, who has

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) A state-by-state look at the American Jobs Act , which President Obama presented to Congress last week, shows that Florida could gain thousands of education and infrastructure jobs. However, state GOP policymakers are already showing early signs that they might not participate in the president’s efforts.

Defense Secretary Bob Gates, as Matt DeLong said, is in the Obama administration for another year. Charlie from the prominent counterinsurgency blog Abu

This week, North Carolina will make it easier for residents to divert money to nonprofit pregnancy centers that counsel women against abortion through license

So now that the pre-trial hearing in Omar Khadr’s military commission has recessed while the government conducts a mental-health exam of the 23-year old

How long before Glenn Beck calls Howard A. Schmidt a czar? Also, who is this guy, anyway? Mr. Schmidt is the chief executive officer of the Information

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has made her decision regarding the 2012 calendar, and has decided to move forward with a date outside of the window established by the Republican and Democratic national committees, which has the potential of forcing the other early states forward

The Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it has chosen seven areas in five states to focus on in an ongoing study of the effects of hydrofracking on water quality. None of the sites are in Michigan, where a great deal of land has been leased to energy companies for possible fracking but little activity has begun. Three of the sites are in Pennsylvania, all located over the Marcellus shale

A conference of U.S. and Mexico border governors is underway in New Mexico, but New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the only U.S. governor in attendance after

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) might have postponed this week’s planned Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Fort Hood shooting after President Obama

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story today on the role of states in ensuring pipeline safety. Much of the responsibility for enforcing pipeline