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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio--What’s a birthday for a presidential candidate without some quality time with the press? Last night, near the end of a flight from Boston

Billed as an “alternative” to Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fast event The Response, the ACLU of Texas and Americans United for Separation of Church and

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says at the approval of President Obama, armed Predator drones will be used in Libya. Gates and Marine Gen. James

In his latest column, action star-turned-conservative pundit Chuck Norris has a revolutionary suggestion to battle the enemies within. As 9/12 concluded,

So we don’t know exactly what significant actions CIA Director Leon Panetta has acknowledged to the House intelligence committee were not properly briefed to

The Leahy-Feinstein substitute bill I discussed in my piece this morning about the USA PATRIOT Act was just approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 13-8,

Here are some stark -- if not entirely surprising -- numbers from the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the 2010 Arizona gubernatorial race. Out of four

Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*. In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and,

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is focused on Iowa in her campaign for the GOP nomination, her campaign spokeswoman told NBC, a strategy that may have led to all of the campaign’s New Hampshire staff quitting this weekend

The Senate Finance Committee this morning is taking up a much-anticipated amendment, offered by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), to create a public insurance

Guess who wrote this and when: “We are sitting on a time bomb,” the mortgage analyst said — a huge increase in unconventional home loans like balloon

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, has a new Spanish-language ad touting her opposition to the Arizona law, SB 1070, and

At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Florida, a gay soldier serving in Iraq was booed by the audience because he asked a question about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. None of the candidates on stage came to his defense. After the debate, many moderate Republicans spoke out against the audience’s behavior including Minnesota Republican Rep.

The nicotine and other chemicals found in tobacco products might be addictive, and they might contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States

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 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

Despite a drop in his approval rating, Ensign may have “at least a 50-50 shot.” GOP Senators: Sotomayor fight isn’t winning us political

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,