Breaking News

Remember the PreserveRaptorJobs Website? The one portraying the F-22 Raptor fighter jet as an economic engine; and one that seeks to mobilize people to write in

Organizations connected to the Service Employees International Union reported spending $759,000 in independent expenditures on the Massachusetts Senate race in

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who’s been one of Sonia Sotomayor’s harshest critics and questioners at her confirmation hearings, just said to Sotomayor: “I

Let’s see what Lou Dobbs makes of this one: turns out the crackdown on border crossings by undocumented immigrants has actually led to an increase in the

A bit of bad economic news: This morning, the Conference Board announced that consumer confidence, a key indicator of the consumer spending that drives about 60

For almost four years, the fate of U.S. border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had been a sort of cause celebre among immigration restrictionists.

Given that the Obama administration worked last night with House Democrats to soften the language of Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) Iran resolution -- which passed

The Obama administration could have just let this one go. U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates’ April 2 ruling that three detainees -- two from Yemen, one

U.S.

Last year’s expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program was the legislative high point of the last decade, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the

As dynamic as Sen. Barack Obama is seen in the popular imagination, what has gotten him here today -- 15 points ahead of Sen. John McCain in the latest Pew poll -- is his and his organization’s ability to methodically achieve one goal, and then another.

Abu Muqawama, reading a story from The Washington Post about the cost overruns of the Army’s/SAIC’s/Boeing’s Future Combat Systems, remarks: SAIC’s executive

With a new administration, dozens of new members of Congress, billions of dollars in stimulus spending up for grabs, and multiple national crises, 2009 is

Democratic leaders in Iowa say the occupy movement generally lines up with their party’s values, but both those leaders and people in the movement are wary of any connection between the two. Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement , said he believes Democrats will try to co-opt the movement.

Responding to that McClatchy-Ipsos poll, Rush Limbaugh cracks wise: They have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American

Rasmussen Reports has an already-Drudged poll on the 2012 presidential election, which finds former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) tying Barack Obama and soon-to-be

In some quarters, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s order to his troops in Afghanistan to protect civilians first represents a dangerous exposure to battlefield risk,

At the rally outside the Capitol on Sunday, Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks told me that he was hearing things about the race in FL-19, the congressional

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who’s done plenty in recent months to alienate Democrats, won’t improve his standing with his comments today to Fox News. Asked by