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Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee was passing a not-very-green cash-for-clunkers amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, three senators introduced a

So an Arkansas state senator calls Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Jew, and in the course of explaining away the remark through a folksy defense of

Another year, another position paper from the Center for a New American Security on Iraq. The previous bunch of CNAS Iraq position papers were authored by

Today is the day. Now we wait for what Gen. David Petraeus described on Wednesday as two weeks of high-level internal strategy and resource debates to find out

The federal government’s single biggest source of revenue is income tax, but cities and towns are primarily funded by sales and property taxes. That means

Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he will soon be issuing his opinion regarding whether immigrants in immigration proceedings can challenge adverse

Michele Bachmann announced Monday that she was adding staff to her campaigns in Iowa and South Carolina. Ron Thomas will be Senior Advisor for South Carolina and Guy Short will become National Political Director based in Des Moines. Short has a reputation as an aggressive lobbyist to such a degree that Republicans in Colorado considered giving him the boot, and Thomas’ stint as a staffer for the South Carolina Republican Party involved promises of federal faith-based funds to churches for electoral support

Rand Paul blasts Obama’s un-American criticism of British Petroleum. NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions takes the fall for the GOP loss in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania

He should, anyway. The conspiracy-minded attorney responds to the magazine’s measured denunciation of the birther movement with a 3,700-word rant about how

Julie Bass of Oak Park wanted to save some cash on fresh vegetables, so she started a garden this spring. But now, Oak Park officials are dragging her to court over it. The reason?

I’m comfortable with the entire plan, Gen. McChrystal says in reference to a question from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Amb. Eikenberry agrees. About the July

Bill Ayers must be having the time of his life. Yep, Shepard Smith has officially gone rogue. Grijalva says over 70 percent of House Dems support a robust

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) might have postponed this week’s planned Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Fort Hood shooting after President Obama

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story today on the role of states in ensuring pipeline safety. Much of the responsibility for enforcing pipeline

The USS Bataan arrived in Port-au-Prince harbor yesterday and by 9 a.m., the Marines on board went ashore to prep the beach for Bataan’s mission to render aid

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has made her decision regarding the 2012 calendar, and has decided to move forward with a date outside of the window established by the Republican and Democratic national committees, which has the potential of forcing the other early states forward

The Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it has chosen seven areas in five states to focus on in an ongoing study of the effects of hydrofracking on water quality. None of the sites are in Michigan, where a great deal of land has been leased to energy companies for possible fracking but little activity has begun. Three of the sites are in Pennsylvania, all located over the Marcellus shale