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With the election drawing near, President Obama is drawing on the concerns of campaign finance reformers in hopes of riling the Democratic base. Last night at a

Today, President Barack Obama officially tapped Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Democrats were quick to

From The Washington Post: The Obama administration announced plans Thursday to overhaul the nation’s much-criticized immigration detention system by

Last week, as violent protests marred the Iranian regime’s anniversary celebration, the Iranian government launched an effort at jamming the attempts of western

The Democrat hoping for Bayh’s seat is more conservative than Bayh. Paterson might face criminal charges. Palin remembers flood-devastated Cedar Rapids as

Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sent a letter to the national oil spill commission yesterday to set the record

Mudslinging about undisclosed campaign donors and the potential for foreign interference reached a new pitch yesterday in an already surprisingly heated

The Obama campaign’s Internet operation knows how to meet the moment. Sensing some irrational exuberance from supporters, which can stoke complacency, Obama’s

The new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia has two pieces of bad news for Democrats. The obvious one: In the gubernatorial race, State Sen. Creigh Deeds

While Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe spoke to a mostly-full Marriott Ballroom, a buzz circulated among event organizers: Trust us, you should be there. When

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster on the defense authorization bill, which some senators have threatened to

Chevron is the latest oil company to try to prove it’s environmentally aware by supporting energy conservation. But this could be a tough sell.

The Iowa Democrat Party and Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party joined forces Monday in a press conference denouncing former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s political platform, questioning his reasons for running and criticizing his political strategy after supposedly creating the highest deficit in Minnesota state history. It is the third time in recent weeks the IDP and lawmakers or political groups in Minnesota have reached over state lines to lambaste the two-term governor, who announced his candidacy in a video Sunday afternoon, and held a town hall meeting on the rooftop of Des Moines’s Iowa Historical Building the next morning . Democrats were critical of Pawlenty’s political record while governor of Minnesota, particularly his Monday statement which called for called for phasing “out subsidies across all sources of energy and all industries, including ethanol.” “We simply can’t afford them anymore,” he added

In another of the Bush administration’s awesome midnight rule changes, the White House announced Friday that visitors to national parks may now carry concealed

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) scored a victory in the annual CPAC straw poll, besting nine other Republicans in a vote taken by around 2,395 attendees -- around 25

After failing to pass an extension of unemployment benefits earlier this week, the House tried again -- and succeeded, 270 to 153. The Senate will take up its

Following on the heels of Osama bin Laden’s latest diatribe, counterterrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann flags a new message from another al-Qaeda figure -- this one

The Personhood Florida logo (Pic via personhoodfl.com) Though support for “fetal personhood” measures seems to be growing across the country, an examination of the movement’s detractors reveals an interesting personhood foe — pro-lifers who say the effort to ban abortion could backfire. In some states, like Mississippi, personhood support is fairly widespread.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is having trouble raising money to pay down her huge campaign debt, and her former strategist Mark Penn is making the task far

MSNBC is reporting that the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings are set to begin July 13.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as