Government

Tuesday night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert summed up Republican congressional district gerrymandering with a visual approximation… and the following [...]

President Obama talked race, gay rights, social safety-nets, liberty and freedom among many of the topics he mentioned during his [...]

Today President Obama delivered what many are calling a notably progressive inaugural speech. It was a speech that some on [...]

It appears Harry Reid, in longstanding Democratic (with a capital D) fashion, is losing his nerve when it comes to substantive [...]

The following absolutist nonsense needs to stop now: People who say “the government and President Obama are coming to take [...]

Even though Republican lawmakers, Fox News pundits and conservatives at large believe the debt ceiling puts a limit on federal [...]

I’m not endorsing Chuck Hagel, but I would like to point out that if Republicans strongly oppose Hagel’s nomination, you [...]

Every time we have a national debate about the deficit, Republicans start talking about cuts to Social Security while Democrats, [...]

There is a lot of reporting that Republicans voted for a tax increase for the first time in decades when [...]

The House of Representatives passed the Senate fiscal cliff bill by 90 votes, and it has not gone unnoticed by [...]

In the early hours of the new year, the U.S. Senate voted and approved the fiscal cliff deal 89 to [...]

We are all jumping off the cliff at midnight. — Apparently there will be no vote tonight on a deal [...]