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Florida right-wing groups are up in arms over a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations in an effort to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world.

Imagine a government that moves its top income tax rate higher and higher every year. At some point, that imaginary government would raise taxes so high that it

In an effort to support state Sen. Alan Hays’ and Rep

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall Wednesday unveiled an updated version of the Energy Security Act he worked with Arizona Senator Gabrielle Giffords to introduce last year.

The libertarian think tank releases this video, offering a soup-to-nuts critique of the Afghanistan war, complete with ominous-sounding music:

The Lennar Homes logo (Pic via prlog.org) Residents and lawmakers alike are up in arms over a Pasco County subdivision that was recently revealed to have been built over a landfill.

Charlie Savage and Scott Shane have a great story today about U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies improperly spying on constitutionally protected

The Economic Policy Institute has posted a new study of the average duration of unemployment by state. The report shows that workers wait longest for jobs in

The presidential hopes of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) received a third nod from the ranks of the Iowa Senate.

At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, I asked Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the leader of the Republican Study Committee, whether he sided with Rep. Patrick

More from Laura Rozen. She talked to Chas Freeman and he says that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) had nothing to do with his departure as National

Ohio voters in 2009 approved by an overwhelming margin a ballot measure that allowed the state to borrow and spend $200 million on bonuses to Buckeye State

It’s only a day after the primary, but all three Senate hopefuls in Florida are throwing their campaigns into a higher gear. Republican Marco Rubio is out with

At the end of a five-hour excoriation of CEOs at credit-rating agencies, Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) said to the heads of Moody’s, Standard’s & Poor’s and

New Mexico’s congressional delegation split on the debt ceiling deal that passed the House by a 269-161 vote Monday, with most Republicans and half of Democrats voting for the bill. Democratic Albuquerque Rep

There is nothing, at this point, that will surprise me about the McCain campaign. Apparently, Sen. John McCain hired the same firm that carried out a vicious

One of the major problems with Secure Communities, an information-sharing program between federal and local law enforcement to catch illegal immigrants, is that

<p>Stanley Kutler makes an important <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/commentary-huckabee">argument</a> about Mike

Geoffrey Millard, a soldier with the New York National Guard, was a general’s assistant in Iraq. He related a story he attended a briefing his boss about: a