Just one day after a report from Politico.com that the employer-provided health plan extended by the Republican National Committee to its employees covers "elective abortion" procedures, the GOP committee has striken such coverage from its plan. more...

United States Army Chief of Staff General George Casey said on Sunday that more troops are needed in Afghanistan to continue fighting the war against the Taliban. "I believe that we need to put additional forces into Afghanistan to give General McChrystal the ability to both dampen the successes of the Taliban while we train the Afghan civilian forces," he said. more...

Late Saturday night, the House of Representatives passed its own version of the health care reform bill that has formed the centerpiece of the Obama Administration's legislative agenda thus far. The Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) would ensure that 95–96% of US citizens receive affordable health care. more...

If Democrats seem to have really lost anywhere in the off-year elections on Tuesday, it's mostly in public opinion. Major media outlets and blogs alike have been citing what they suppose to be a "shift" in opinion ahead of a potential watershed year in 2010. A closer look at the factors behind each of the individual contests shows why that isn't necessariy the case. more...

Interpreting the election may be more difficult than even the most seasoned political pundit may be willing to admit. Democrats won huge in New York 23. Republicans won (arguably) even bigger in New Jersey. And both parties fared just about as expected in both Virginia and the California 10th. So which side fared better? more...