Moody’s says the new GOP budget plan would only leave to a mere 700,000 jobs lost.

Gallup and Rasmussen get pretty much exactly opposite results on the government shutdown question.

Jon Taplin explains how disruptive networks are challenging centralized authority everywhere.

It’s tough being a Southern history revisionist. Just ask Haley Barbour.

Bushie Kyle Sampson, of U.S. attorney scandal fame, has finally secured his license to practice law in D.C. after a two-year fight.

And the self-proclaimed “most transparent Member of Congress” is …

New report: The United States has wasted tens of billions of dollars on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Speaker Boehner: I’ll decide whether to defend DOMA in court by the end of this week.

The Capitol Police Chief in Madison just held a press conference: no arrests, the protestors can stay in the Capitol building tonight. Read our report.

The Wisconsin state capitol at Madison was supposed to be cleared out at 4 PM local time this afternoon. But that deadline came and went and the crowds, albeit thinned out a bit, are still there. Many were ready to non-violently resist the orders to leave. But it hasn’t come to that. Our reporter in the building estimates that no more than a quarter of the people in the building have departed. Read his just-filed report.