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If the Senate is to pass health care before Christmas, it’ll have to follow a ridiculously tight timeline. With so little margin for error, though, the plan

Ten days from now, members of Congress will return to Washington from their home districts, and for the Senate, priority number one will be the passage of the

It’s been about a month since Adm. Michael Mullen conceded that a Defense Department initiative to expand so-called dwell time between Army deployments would

If you want to read a scathing attack on the F-22 fighter jet, make sure to check out this piece at DODBuzz, co-written by retired Air Force Col. Robert Dilger

Emmett Township Public Safety officials confirm that firefighters from the department have investigated 9-1-1 reports that there was a heavy odor of oil near the Ceresco dam.

Greg Sargent mines a Washington Post piece to discover that the Obama administration is looking to declassify a 2004 CIA inspector general’s report that laid

Texas’ business-friendly climate has been one of Gov. Rick Perry’s favorite talking points on the campaign trail, and he’s played up the role of incentive

TWI Exclusive: From a pizza box to your screen, here are the attacks McCain plans to deliver against Obama at tonight’s debate.

In a telling, but non-scientific, survey of the Republican Party’s social conservative base, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) won the 2009 Values Voter straw

Just released: I strongly condemn the attacks that occurred this morning in Jakarta, and extend my deepest condolences to all of the victims and their loved

Sen. John Gleason, who last week staged a sit-in to protest the failure of the state legislature to pass an anti-bullying bill, has released a Youtube video encouraging people to contact their legislature and pressure them to vote for the bill.

Three more down, 226 to go: Berlusconi says Italy will take a trio of Gitmo detainees. Faced with an economic crisis, unrest in the Middle East and a thicket

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) Though Congressman Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, is criticizing President Obama’s push for green jobs, the Florida lawmaker was happy to welcome a federally funded green jobs effort in his own district last year.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee just spent a five-hour hearing detailing how American International Group gave millions in compensation to

Delaware will likely soon join Hawaii, Illinois and New Jersey in allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions. Same-sex marriage advocates and critics alike

In the search for answers for Friday’s bombing of government offices and shooting at a political summer camp in Oslo, Norway, that killed more than 80 people,

In recent media appearances, National Organization for Marriage (NOM) board chair Maggie Gallagher has countered the suggestion that NOM might not be able to

He’s been advertising on the email lists of The Washington Times and Townhall.com, among other places, and claims to have raked in $200,000 so far. Here’s the

Republican Rep. John Kline looks like he’s becoming the for-profit education industry’s proverbial “man in Washington.” In February, he proposed an amendment to defund any attempt by the federal government to overhaul regulations governing the industry, without a clear sense of what those new regulations would look like