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Source: Zroberts, Flickr Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition working to convince Minnesotans to vote for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, has hit the media saying that their group are “underdogs” in the marriage amendment battle and that they will be greatly outspent. But according to public records, members of the pro-amendment coalition, including the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference, have greatly outspent LGBT groups in the five years of lobbying for the amendment. Minnesota for Marriage claims fundraising disadvantage Each member of the coalition supporting the amendment has claimed underdog status in recent months.

If President Obama is drafting an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, and he has already filed a motion to halt military commission trials, does that make

Rep. Bart Gordon becomes the fourth Democratic member of Congress in a month -- the second Blue Dog from Tennessee -- to announce his retirement in 2010. Like

I mentioned in April that CIA luminary Phil Mudd was going to become undersecretary of Homeland Security for intelligence, but Jeff Stein scoops the world and

Eric Cantor says he’d support Boehner for House speaker. Obama writes a children’s book. Rahm Emanuel starts polling about a potential Chicago major

State Department officials have been assuring reporters for the last week that by January, more than 1,000 diplomats, development workers and other U.S.

Shirley Sherrod doesn’t want an Agriculture Department job. Blago attempts to show Jon Stewart he’s not a sociopath. Mitt Romney’s advisers hope he’ll be

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty announced on Wednesday that he would not sign a controversial marriage pledge by Iowa’s The Family Leader. Pawlenty said, “I prefer to choose my own words,” in response to the pledge which has come under fire for references to slavery , its opposition to same-sex marriage, a ban on pornography and an insinuation that being gay or lesbian is a choice . Fellow presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have signed on while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have criticized the pledge.

For those who’ve been wondering whether Congress can really just vent its anger at those $165 million in AIG bonuses by levying a 90 percent tax on the bonuses

The New York Times’ front-page story Sunday reporting the unanimous agreement among Justice Department lawyers that the “harsh” interrogation techniques

Buried within the guts of a very good New York Times story about problems with the Afghan security forces is word of this effort at rooting out police

The Republican boycott persisted, but the Democratic side of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sent its landmark climate bill to the full Senate

Notwithstanding Rep. Louise Slaughter’s (D-N.Y.) impassioned plea, the House this afternoon passed that amendment to alter the Freedom of Information Act and

On March 17, Connie Hair of Human Events shared an unsourced rumor with her readers: Most interesting rumor from the Hill yesterday: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)

Adam Kokesh is one of the more intriguing Republican congressional candidates of the 2010 cycle. A 27-year-old libertarian who became a leader of Iraq Veterans

The Koch Industries logo (Pic via suraen.files.wordpress.com) In an op-ed published in today’s Florida Times-Union , St. Johns Riverkeeper Neil Armingeon writes that Floridians “deserve answers” about a nearly four-mile pipeline that would carry waste from a Palatka paper mill owned by Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific into the St.

Just 41 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of health care. But that number might go up with a better information campaign. A GOP Rep in Iowa

A statement released by Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: “Due to the high visibility of

Real quick before the military commissions hearings begin: Laura Rozen has a detailed post about why Vice President Joe Biden’s we will not prevent line about

Over at the Sunlight Foundation, co-founder Ellen Miller provides more reasons to fret about the departure of White House ethics czar Norman Eisen, whose

At least seven people are dead after multiple shooters opened fire in Ft. Hood, Texas, near a soldier processing center. Almost nothing is clear at this point,

During the first presidential debate, McCain said that “No one in Arizona is against solar” as he championed alternative energy development. But people in his home state say the senator has not been helpful in developing its most abundant resource -- sunshine.

Still recovering from prostate cancer surgery, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) just shot out a statement reaffirming the importance of the public insurance option to