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Chicago, Ill -- This victory is more than historic. President-elect Barack Obama’s victory marks political progress far broader than race -- especially because

The Department of Justice announced today that Roy Belfast Jr., aka Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 97

With midterms a day away and early voting already underway in a number of states, conservatives and anti-illegal immigration groups are claiming that large

For a one-stop compendium of how the prospects for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City for his role in 9/11 have deteriorated, ProPublica’s Dafna

While feminists worried that the economic stimulus package would neglect them, a quiet but concerted pressure campaign to get women’s interests in the bill was underway.

Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm

The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration yesterday to overturn the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

The Heritage Foundation just wrapped up a panel discussion to that effect, called Where Does the Tea Party Go from Here? Panelists included Billie Tucker,

The Senate rejected today an amendment to the small business bill sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) that would have excluded much of the oil and gas

Discourse at Iowa political events on the right and left has been getting increasingly uncivil, but a recent Carroll appearance by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley that culminated in heated words and physicality may have gone too far.

Congress and the White House are getting kudos for acting so quickly on a stimulus package for the economy, even frm the Wall Street Journal (sub req.) in a

The New Jersey Democratic legislator and intelligence oversight maven has finally won on a fight he’s waged to record military interrogations. As The Wall

Let’s take one more stab at interpreting the prospective arrival of Phil Carter and Craig Mullaney to the Pentagon. I mentioned that Carter and Mullaney are,

Though it’s been little mentioned throughout the health reform debate, there’s a showdown brewing between House and Senate Democrats over the future of the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- No one tell Marc Thiessen, but Greg Finley, a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent who said he interrogated Omar Khadr

From the annals of in case you missed it, here’s some news on the energy front from TWI’s broad lame duck preview story this morning. Senate Majority

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Florida Cattlemen’s Association filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s numeric nutrient criteria , a set of standards that would limit the amount of waste in Florida waterways. # An article published in Drovers Cattle Network said that the groups are seeking two specific things from the court: # “First, we ask the court to set aside and hold unlawful the letter and rule because they are arbitrary, capricious, go beyond EPA’s statutory authority and are in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act,” said Thies.