by Tom Quaadman One of the selling points used by the Administration and Congressional leadership in pushing the Dodd-Frank bill is that financial regulatory reform is needed to do away with the uncertainty that has plagued the economy since read more...

It was announced a couple of days ago that a new Israel advocacy group has emerged, the Emergency Committee for Israel's Leadership. read more...

The US government posted a smaller budget deficit in June compared with the same month last year as the economic recovery brought in more tax revenue. read more...

A new national survey carried out by market research firm Harris Interactive suggests gay and lesbian adults online today are among the most loyal and most frequent blog readers and social network users in the United States. read more...

On Saturday's CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor decided what should be at the top of Congress's agenda as it returned from the July 4th recess: "Congress returns to Washington next week to face a big backlog of unfinished business, and topping read more...

Today's Alabama primary runoffs feature three nationally significant contests, including one key Democratic and one key Republican congressional nomination battle. read more...

The New York Times has an interesting video story about David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam - the satanic letter-writing serial killer who terrorized NYC and murdered six people in the mid-1970s. read more...

President Obama at a fundraising dinner for the Human Rights Campaign, the leading gay rights organization, in October. (Yuri Gripas-Pool/ZUMApress. read more...

If you were looking for a concise explanation of why you should care about the upcoming Supreme Court review of California's oft-defeated measure to outlaw the sale of "excessively" violent games to minors, look no further than the blog of EA's read more...

A new SurveyUSA poll in Minnesota's 6th congressional district finds Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) with a lead over challenger Tarryl Clark (D), 48% to 39%. read more...

AP/Huffington Post - Republican US Senate candidate Rand Paul says the poor in America are "enormously better off than the rest of the world," citing an old Cold War film that showed even impoverished homes had color televisions. read more...

Zuckerman owns and publishes the New York Daily News and owns US News and World Report. Perhaps someone didn't pass Zuckerman the memo that if you want to be a responsible publisher and give your readership the impression they are subscribing to read more...

With the votes for a financial reform bill in hand, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will move to end debate on the bill Tuesday and set up a vote Thursday to send the final bill to President Barack Obama's desk. read more...

In Sarah Palin's recent video, she talks about "a lot of women coming together to get things done for our country." I also know a lot of women coming together and enacting change--but I don't think we're talking about the same group of women. read more...

While many conservative organizations immediately decried a federal judge's decision last week to invalidate the federal ban on recognizing gay marriages, tea party groups have been conspicuously silent on the issue. read more...

On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor's pop song - 'I Will Survive' at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe. read more...

Home of the good life, and FinReg's 60th vote. (photo: Thomas Beck Photo via Flickr) Multiple outlets, but led by Jane Kleeb at Bold Nebraska, have confirmed that Ben Nelson will support the financial reform bill. read more...

It looks like that demon sheep has showed up snarling on Sen. Barbara Boxer's doorstep. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the controversial Silicon Valley executive who exploded into the California Senate race with a series of colorful read more...

During a campaign appearance in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Corbett told a reporter from Pennsylvania Public Radio that "the jobs are there," but he'd been told by business owners that, "one of the issues, and I hear it repeatedly - one of read more...

Kansas City, MO: After more than a year of unprecedented activity that has shifted the national conversation about food, First Lady Michelle Obama made even more history on Monday morning, when she spoke at the 101st NAACP National Convention. read more...