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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is asked by Fox News whether his RNC would support primary challengers to the moderate Republican

Floyd Norris of The New York Times picks up on President George W. Bush’s myopic views of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,

The Obama administration, under pressure to turn over key memos written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, has asked the federal judge in New

Bowling Green, Ohio We’ve just wrapped up the second Palin campaign event of the day, a Victory in Ohio rally whose highlight -- aside from the rather

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

A statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (aka E-FORCSE) will finally go live on Thursday. For supporters of the program, its implementation has been a long time coming, but is welcome in a state where prescription drug abuse has reached near-epidemic proportions . # Starting Thurs., Sept

The Associated Press reports: The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama’s

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

In times of economic downturn, young people often bemoan their job prospects: The ranks of the unemployed swell with people slightly older, more experienced and

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) tonight became the second incumbent in a week to be ousted by his own party, losing to state Sen. Mike Oliverio 56-44 percent in

That’s the apparently sincere wish of Larry Kudlow: With so many weak-kneed leaders in business and politics today, Gregg has just provided an incredibly

Comedy Central host and super PAC architect Stephen Colbert considered Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the “embarrassment… of riches” that makes up the

Despite the longstanding prohibition on torture, the U.N. Convention Against Torture (which the United States has ratified) and the Geneva Conventions, the

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though the state Department of Agriculture has begun ramping up its campaign to educate Floridians about the safety of gulf seafood, some remain unconvinced that it is as safe for consumption as the Food and Drug Administration has claimed. Just last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental advocacy group, filed a petition with the FDA, demanding that the agency “recognize the hazards posed by PAHs in seafood and set a health protective standard.” PAHs, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, are pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer in both animals and humans

It’s been almost exactly 18 months since Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter, filed a lawsuit demanding that his state keep

Speaking of ousted United Nations deputy representative to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith, Galbraith was recently accused in a New York Times piece of promoting

The Environmental Protection Agency released today a five-year plan outlining key goals for the agency. Chief among those goals is taking action on climate