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For a nonbinding resolution, Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal that Republican senators give up earmarks in the 112th Congress is generating a lot of

Following up on Spencer’s post, I must point out the absurdity of the opening of John Yoo’s op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It was instantly clear after

... you might see your dollars sucked into a defense fund for a lawsuit that has a bit less to do with control of the Senate than the former senator’s

Florida Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando (left) and state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City (Pic via flsenate.gov) During a committee hearing yesterday, GOP members expressed outrage with the federal government for its request that the state include a “medical loss ratio” in its Medicaid Reform Pilot. The committee meeting was chaired by state Sen

It was inevitable: Senate Republicans were dying to talk about health care reform today, but all reporters wanted to discuss was Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.)

Just hours after President Obama reiterated his plans for overhauling the nation’s health care system to trim costs and cover the 46 million people estimated to

Via Politico, it looks like several performers have pulled out of playing at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky because Alliance Coal is a sponsor. The

The American Petroleum Institute, the country’s most powerful oil and gas trade group, announced today that it is making publicly available online for the first

As the social media-sparked Bank Transfer Day approaches, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that over 650,000 people have joined credit unions in the last four weeks. In Colorado, the group reports 14,000 new accounts and $100 million in new deposits

To build on Daphne’s post about bogus numbers of terrorist Guantanamo parolees, The New York Times carries a kind of silly story about a former Guantanamo

In an interview with ABC News on Sept. 20, President Obama said that the ACORN scandal “is not the biggest issue facing the country” but that the case

Harmful, smog-causing emissions from the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, should be curtailed as swiftly as possible by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), conservation groups argued at an EPA meeting in Denver on Wednesday. “Addressing air emissions from fracking operations is essential,’’ National Wildlife Federation regional outreach coordinator David Ellenberger said in a release

Five Republican presidential hopefuls have signed a pledge promising to ”not just check off the pro-life box but show true pro-life leadership if elected president.” Only three of those asked to sign — former Massachusetts Gov.

According to Catholics for Choice, a religious pro-reproductive rights group, the leader of Priests for Life, Frank Pavone, “has been suspended from engaging in active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, as a result of concerns about financial improprieties.” Pavone has been a prominent figure in the anti-abortion movement.

With a GOP-controlled House on the horizon, I’ve been looking at a few policy proposals made by conservatives and pro-enforcement groups to see which ideas

Just as lawmakers could see a flicker of compromise on the state budget, it fizzled, some legislators are saying. Thursday morning, Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley (R-Chariton) was upbeat about on-going resolutions and negotiations between Democrats and Republicans in both chambers on bitterly fought topics, especially abortion, property tax, education and, of course, the state budget.

Chock full of LOLs is the latest offering from Ralph Peters, a troglodytic New York Post columnist who manages to be wrong about everything. This time, he

Not content with the right-wing pundits’ method of evaluating Judge Sonia Sotomayor by hurling epithets and baseless accusations against her, Tom Goldstein, the

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asked President George W. Bush last month to pardon her former counterpart in the U.S.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (Pic via myfloridalegal.com) In a Monday court filing, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam, Attorney General Pam Bondi and a slew of industry representatives filed their opposition to EPA-mandated water pollution standards for the state. Arguing that “federal intervention was and remains unnecessary,” they ask the court to invalidate the January 2009 determination that required that the standards be implemented. That determination followed litigation brought on by Florida environmental groups that alleged the state wasn’t meeting the requirements of the Clean Water Act. Pollution brought on by failing septic tanks, home fertilizers, utility companies and agricultural interests often leads to large-scale algal blooms and fish kills — occurrences that wouldn’t be so frequent, say some, if Florida had stricter water pollution rules.

A look at polling numbers illustrates how muddled the GOP presidential contest presently is, compared to the outlook at this point in the 2000 White House

It seems paradoxical: The wealthy pay higher income taxes than low- and middle-income Americans. But they also often pay lower effective tax rates than their