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<p>I used to wake up every morning and worry about Jim Traficant.</p> <p>Traficant was the congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, and

Paul Bedard gets an early look at The Persecution of Sarah Palin, the second book by young Weekly Standard writer Matthew Continetti, which draws lessons

A libel and defamation suit lodged by social conservative historian David Barton is being called an “intimidation tactic” and an attack on free speech by

A pair of anti-abortion rights bill are moving through the Minnesota House and Senate this week. On Tuesday, a Senate committee passed a bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks gestation. And in the House and Senate a bill to ban taxpayer funding for abortion was passed out of committee

A new study has found that corporations have instituted a number of policies to reduce campaign finance spending while the number of corporate boards overseeing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News wrote an interesting profile of Todd Palin’s 87-year-old grandmother this week that offers a

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich seemed to steal the show Saturday evening at a presidential forum hosted by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, focusing mostly on economics as several other GOP hopefuls tried to convince the social conservative crowd they have the strongest stances against abortion and same-sex marriage

This July, Governor Susana Martinez, a descendant of illegal immigrants, implemented what she called a residency certification program — an effort to review the authenticity of foreign nationals’ drivers licenses. The state currently has about 85,000 licenses issued to foreign nationals. State district judge Sarah Singleton issued a preliminary injunction against the program back on September 22

There’s a partisan aspect to the spat, should Tea Party groups embrace the GOP?

In a move being cheered by environmentalists and community groups, Congress on Tuesday sent the White House a spending bill for the Department of Homeland

It’s not exactly surprising that some Republicans would be using the failed Christmas terror plot to grandstand and try to thwart President Obama’s plans to

Another noteworthy item from the forthcoming Newsweek piece: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently decided to attack Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to William Ayers

Public Policy Polling released a survey on Wednesday that showed a majority of North Carolinians oppose both making same-sex marriage legal in that state and a

Rand Paul takes a little less relish in arguing with neoconservative foreign policy hawks than his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), does. (The elder Paul’s

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post all follow The Associated Press’ break yesterday afternoon that President Obama is about to

It would be too much to say that champagne corks were popping on Wall Street last week, but there was an almost audible sigh of relief wafting through the

It doesn’t get Democrats any closer to 60 votes for climate legislation, but Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) efforts to cross the aisle and help craft a

Though the paper came under fire by FSU’s President last week for allegedly “misconstruing the facts,” the St. Petersburg Times is continuing its investigation into a controversial relationship between billionaire Charles Koch and the public university

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) The Stem Cell Action Coalition is calling on Mississippi voters to reject Amendment 26, also known as the “personhood” amendment, at the ballot box on Nov. 8.

The national group (with Texas roots) backing efforts to replace federal health care programs with interstate health care compacts is the newest sponsor of