Recent Votes

• Santorum cancels events to be with sick daughter

  Updated at 1 a.m. ET: WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum canceled his Sunday morning campaign events and planned to spend time with his hospitalized daughter.

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• UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff

  Source: msnbc.com

  Policeman also implicated in investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers

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• Obama declares 'we've come too far to turn back now'

  Updated at 10:30 pm ET With an unfinished legislative agenda from last year and with Election Day nine months from now, President Barack Obama went before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night to offer his proposals for economic growth and to draw sharp contra …

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• Locals call BP's feel-good Gulf ads 'propaganda'

  Source: msnbc.com

  Advertising blitz touts recovery of tourism, fishing industries after massive spill

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• The de facto poll tax of 2011

  When you talk about government overreach, sometimes the effect matters more than the intent. Consider Michigan, for instance, where the new emergency manager law has put more than half the African-American population is at risk of having no meaningful local democracy.

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