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Josh Kraushaar, Mike Allen, and Jim Vandehei get the rumor mill churning with their report that Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), considered a dark horse 2012 candidate

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Speaking of bright spots in a dismal economy, Amazon.com reported its sales were the best ever, during a grim holiday shopping season that saw most retailers

Senator Mark Udall today said President Obama made the right decision in not releasing the bin Laden photos, saying the release of the photos could inflame jihadists and put the people in danger. His statement: Today, Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, released the following statement after viewing the classified photos of Osama bin Laden. The photos were made available to certain members of the House and Senate after Udall called for the White House to allow Intelligence Committee members to see them.

Canada’s National Energy Board restricted the flow of oil through pipelines in that country in response to the Enbridge pipeline rupture that fouled at least 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River last summer. Post Media News reports that Canadian regulators, after monitoring the U.S. investigation of the Michigan spill, ordered a 20 percent pressure reduction on the pre-1970 flash-welded sections of Enbridge’s Line 2, which connects Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin

This morning, Michael Barone joined a number of American Enterprise Institute fellows for a briefing on the 2009 elections. One of the more interesting

Eric Montalvo, a U.S. Army Marine Corps major and Mohammed Jawad’s military defense lawyer, yesterday sent me a long note about the latest news on his client.

For six years, the Bush administration denied or ignored the impact of climate change. But last May, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental

The Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill will save the federal government $81 billion over the next 10 years, according to the much-anticipated

Congress targets abortion for the second week in a row on Thursday, when the Senate is expected to debate an amendment recently filed by Sen. Jim DeMint

Erick Erikson at RedState thinks the way the media have excitedly covered the race for House GOP Conference Chair between Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and

I was almost relieved to see this report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. I have been puzzling over why the public seems so sure that offshore

So say Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who just issued a joint statement announcing the unveiling. Notably, their statement doesn’t

The holiday blahs haven’t let up when it comes to who’s getting what job in the new Obama-run intelligence community. No news today on that front, according to

UPDATE: Sept. 16, 10:30 a.m. This article was amended with a correction*. Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59

Not sure how this is going to fly with Democrats (read: it’s not), but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the chamber floor today and, in

You might think that members of Congress and their staffs would be prohibited from using their privileged access to nonpublic information to cash in on Wall

When Mike, Chris and Mark Bell, were striving to become champion iron pumpers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the brothers never dreamed that Arnold Schwarzenegger,

The Planned Parenthood logo (Pic via advanceusa.org) Planned Parenthood has announced it will join Awake the State in rallies taking place all over Florida tomorrow.

A controversial bill that would allow for the concealed carry of guns at Texas public colleges and universities may be dead, says the bill’s author. After a