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President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was well received by viewers according to a poll from CBS News. The online poll of 500 people conducted

You might think that that commentary about a deranged lone gunman ought to await the facts, but you’re not going to get a job at Fox News with that attitude.

How badly do lawmakers want to get out of Washington for the scheduled week-long Presidents Day recess? Well, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just

The Obama administration is this week proposing a series of expensive tax breaks for businesses as part of a larger effort to create new jobs: $100 billion to

Carl Paladino, the Tea Party-inspired candidate in New York’s GOP gubernatorial primary, has cut what appears to be the first political ad referencing the

President Barack Obama spoke to the nation on Tuesday night in the annual State of the Union, and while many of those who watched the speech gave it high marks,

“Not everyone can or should have a single-family home, says Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics.

Simon Owens reports on a vigil being held on the White House’s Facebook wall by progressive Afghanistan-war opponents. A message posted by vigil attendees

On the heels of a letter to the Pentagon from human rights groups, the news organizations of four journalists banned from Guantanamo Bay for allegedly violating

The American Spectator’s editorial director reads President Obama’s Cairo speech and grumbles: Six thousand words and the words terror, terrorist, or

As lawmakers continue to weigh in on last night’s health reform speech from President Obama, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House minority whip, went on Good

Enbridge, the company that spilled at least 800,000 gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River system last year, has announced that it is suspending efforts to scrape the remaining submerged oil from the river bottom. UPI reports that the company said it made a “seasonal decision” to stop cleanup for the rest of the year

Ah, the wages of meritocracy and media professionalism. Well-known fake reporter Stephen F. Hayes, author of a ceaseless parade of Saddam Hussein/Al Qaeda

President Bush approved a right of conscience rule that allows medical workers to withhold treatment based on moral or religious beliefs. Democrats in Congress have several options to abandon it.

About 100 protesters gathered in Washington Friday in opposition to Obama’s economic agenda.

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is pushing several laws that would impose voter restrictions and limitations, largely targeted at college

The Atlantic’s recent story The Next Slum is the kind of piece that gets people talking, as stories about urban life and the growth of suburbs and exurbs tend

Brian Frederick’s debunking of Andrew Malcolm’s claim that the approval gap between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin is shrinking is well done, although Malcolm’s

A burning sugar cane field (Pic by skatoolaki, via Flickr) A bill recently introduced by congressmen from Pennsylvania and Illinois could have a far-reaching impact on the U.S.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the iconoclastic Minnesota congresswoman becomes, as far as I can tell, the first incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party

The former Congressional Budget Organization head and McCain campaign economic adviser shows up on the host committee for Tim Pawlenty’s Pretzels and Pints