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After two days of criticism that he should explicitly side with the Iranian opposition, President Obama yesterday said he was deeply troubled by the Iranian

Immigration advocates are wondering what the newly chosen Florida senator-to-be, George LeMieux (R), is going to mean for their campaign for immigration reform

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer last week vetoed legislation that would have overturned the state’s medical marijuana law. He said he thought the law needed some work but that he could not let the Legislature toss out a law approved by 62 percent of Montana voters. “I issue this veto of HB 161 because I do not believe it is right that 91 legislators overturn the will of the people of Montana,” he wrote in a letter to legislators.

It looks like in lieu of waiting for Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) replacement to come into the Senate, Democrats might reconvene the conference committee to fix

Laura Rozen compiles a lot of rumor about who might conceivably get what security jobs in the Obama administration. Some choices are plausible, others not, and

I’ve just conducted a phone interview with Akbar Ganji, one of the leading Iranian dissidents and most prominent voices in the international community for a

And just like that, the bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) were planning to unveil on Monday gets put on

Colorado voters in 2008 and 2010 roundly rejected “personhood” initiatives that aimed to grant full legal rights to human eggs from the moment of fertilization. The national organization behind the idea, Personhood USA, then took its campaign to Mississippi, betting the state’s large bloc of religious voters might put it over the top and set the stage to challenge Roe v Wade , the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973

Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be featured speakers at the RightOnline conference in Minneapolis in mid-June

The two members of Iowa’s federal delegation who took part in historic Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on possible repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act remained adamant that the federal prohibition on recognition of same-sex marriage needs to remain. U.S

The regime crackdown has broken up the large demonstrations and the international media has largely moved on -- enabled unintentionally by Michael Jackson’s

The Lowe’s logo (Pic via melissabargains.com ) Responding to the news that home improvement giant Lowe’s pulled its advertising from the TLC reality series All-American Muslim , People for the American Way today called on Americans to “boycott hate” and stop shopping at Lowe’s. The group is also speaking out against the Florida Family Association, the Tampa organization that played a large part in the ad pulls . The Florida Family Association successfully called for companies that advertise during All-American Muslim to withdraw their ads, saying the show is nothing more than “propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law.” Though more than 60 companies pulled their ads after FFA supporters sent letters, home improvement chain Lowe’s was the only company to comment publicly on why it did so.

In a column recounting the recent national True the Vote summit, featured speaker Warner Todd Huston contends that the Houston tea party-led effort is not

WorldNetDaily draws the latest over-heated attack on a member of the Obama administration from an unlikely source -- the autobiography of Princeton University

So, what was at Iran’s nuclear facility at Qom, anyway? U.N. inspectors found nothing to be worried about in a first look at a previously secret uranium

While the Department of Homeland Security has taken credit for a significant drop in unauthorized immigration since 2007, pointing to increased enforcement by

This morning, President Obama held a meeting at the White House to press, again, for infrastructure investment. The time is right for massive infrastructure

We reported last week that the congressional push to scrap a controversial media consolidation rule was gaining momentum. Today, the Senate Commerce Committee

Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller magazine, which I’m told is prepping to launch in mid-January, has hired Mike Riggs, an editor at the struggling alt-weekly

If you’re near a television set, pick up your remote and go to CNN or MSNBC right now. In one minute Rod Blagojevich will have the floor of the Illinois State

Get that tone out of your voice, Aaron! You slyly mock Joe The Plumber’s forthcoming reporting assignment for Pajamas TV in Israel. But a closer look at the

A group of five Nebraska state lawmakers have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to delay any decision on the Keystone XL pipeline for one year to allow more public and expert comment and possible modification of the project’s route.