Reading through the reactions to yesterday's successful obstruction of an expanded background checks bill, there's one thing you ...

File under "I wouldn't get my hopes up"; ThinkProgress' Ian Millhiser reports that Senate majority leader Harry Reid is t...

There's been a wave of Senate Democrats announcing retirement lately, with South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson being the last. That all these...

This ought to turn out well for them. Roll Call reports that the National Rifle Association plans to spend big to bring down Democratic se...

As anyone who tries to remember will remember, "Benghazi-gate" was a trumped up scandal designed to deny President Obama reelecti...

The other day, I pointed out that the things gun apologists are saying in the wake of a Connecticut school shooting make no damned sense at ...

I don't know what to make of Tommy Thompson performance in the Wisconsin Senatorial debate last night, other than to wonder whether perh...

Tomorrow's the big day . After months of signature collection, petitions to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker must be turned in by Tues...

There are a lot of things to dislike about the modern Republican Party. There's the attitude they have toward what they consider "t...

We need to be honest with the public. This election is about them, not us. And we need to treat this election as the first step in retaking ...

Seriously, what the hell is Sir John of Orange doing? Last night, Boehner finally had to abandon his attempt to get his debt limit bill pas...

Global warming is a hoax . Before you buy that line, it pays to consider which side of the aisle is making that claim. If the fact that thes...

Cap-and-trade is the purest form of socialism. It would be a tremendous destructive force on our market and a hidden tax that would destroy ...

As congress returns from the Fourth of July recess, they'll try once again to extended unemployment benefits for 2.14 million citizens ...

Let's take a moment and pretend that the common political idea of running government like a business makes any damned sense at all. And ...

Normally, primary midterm elections would be about as newsworthy as the weather; everyone would report on it one day and then it stops being...

Let the insanity begin. We now officially have a Supreme Court nominee. Solicitor General Elena Kagan is President Obama's choice to re...

The ad pretty much writes itself. It opens with news headlines, while bass and cellos saw a low, dark note; " U.S. charges Goldman with...

Over the weekend, the media and the blogosphere were abuzz with the story that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens may retire . With the...

"Eleven months ago, I wrote you to share my expectations for the coming health reform debate. At the time, I expressed Democrats’ inten...