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This morning, the Labor Department announced that the number of people making initial jobless claims increased sharply last week, up by 37,000 to 464,000. The

Anyone who pooh-poohed Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) politically courageous decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to help craft bipartisan climate

Alvin Greene was just flirting when he showed a college student porn. Sharron Angle worries that U.S. cities operate under Sharia law. Someone in Jerry

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) pressed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on her handling of military recruiters at Harvard Law School just now, implying that the

Speaking before Florida’s Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Thursday, oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg faced lingering questions about

Two big, competing narratives are dominating media coverage of the upcoming 2010 elections. The first is that the GOP primaries keep producing candidates who

Not to beat this gas-tax debate to death, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who knows a thing or two about economics, chimed in yesterday on the John

Organizers plan for more intimate Fourth of July events after the hoopla of the April 15 gatherings.

The Pawlenty presidential campaign has launched a new television ad in Iowa contrasting the former Governor’s Minnesota record with his goals for the nation. In a fundraising pitch launched in conjunction with the new ad, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty flatly states in the subject line of the message that “it all starts in Iowa.” … For three years, Americans have ad a President who has made things worse and has no economic plan, only a campaign plan.

The Democrats aren’t really running Washington these days; the deficit is. Deficit fears have prompted lawmakers to shy away from even the most popular

As the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rages on following the decision handed down by a Florida judge representing that the health care overhaul contains unconstitutional mandates, much of the media has ignored the fact that nearly all GOP lawmakers in Congress pushing for repeal — as well as their staffs — currently accept government-sponsored health care. # Only eight Republican members of the House have opted out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan, which in 2008 covered some 8.5 million federal workers and their dependents at a cost of $15 billion to taxpayers.

The New York Times is reporting that four of the world’s major oil companies are planning to announce a plan tomorrow to put $1 billion into a rapid response

According to a recently filed court document, donations made to the 2006 and 2008 campaigns of Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, were indeed reimbursed by funds from a Buchanan-owned car dealership, but were not intended to be back-door contributions. # The Federal Election Commission filed suit over the contributions in December 2010, alleging that a company Buchanan owned and a former business partner had offered reimbursements for money donated to his campaign, and in doing so, had violated excessive contribution laws.

On the way in to Newt Gingrich’s speech I spotted a crowd of the size that usually clouds around a 2012 presidential hopeful. It was Max Blumenthal, who was

If anyone thought President Obama’s jobs bill was going to slide through the Senate before hitting trouble in the House, they were wrong. The Senate Tuesday couldn’t get enough support even for a debate

A coalition of groups, including Demos, Project Vote, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL), and the NAACP, sent a letter to Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson last week alleging that the state is in violation of federal law requiring voter registration at public assistance offices.

WorldNetDaily has the exclusive: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has joined five Republican members of Congress in demanding an investigation of the Council on

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass) released this weekend the findings of an investigation into the use of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. The investigation finds

The Federal Election Commission agreed Thursday to investigate a complaint GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger filed last month against Fox News, according

TWI national security reporter Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about his game-changing story on the limited

Not totally clear yet, but it seems that way. From NPR just now: While Iran did not reject the plan outright, state TV said that Tehran was waiting for a

A recent letter from Bishop Patrick Zurek to members of the diocese of Amarillo, Texas, states that Priests for Life President Frank Pavone “remains suspended” from activities outside his diocese. Despite efforts from other members of the anti-abortion rights movement to end the suspension, Zurek said in a public statement recently that Pavone “is to remain in the Diocese for an indefinite period of time for prayer and reflection.” Pavone’s suspension was announced earlier last month over allegations of “financial improprieties.” Zurek wrote in his first letter announcing the suspension that his “decision is the result of deep concerns regarding his stewardship over the finances of the Priests for Life (PFL) organization. The PFL has become a business that is quite lucrative which provides Father Pavone with financial independence from all legitimate ecclesiastical oversight.” Via LifeSiteNews : LifeSiteNews spoke with Fr.

Something strange has happened to Senate Democrats. Just a few weeks ago, few showed any interest in taking up House-passed legislation that would rein in

I highly recommend that anyone with interest in economics read the full text of the speech (PDF) Christina Romer, outgoing head of the Council of Economic