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Despite his apparent disagreement with her on a range of issues, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is emerging as one of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s

Everyone’s going to be focusing on President Obama’s remarks on the economy at his first White House press conference, but CNN’s Ed Henry got in a question

Sure, the associate attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department is supposed to be in charge of the office. But in 2001, then-OLC

Roll Call reports: Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) announced Monday that he plans to introduce legislation to repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t

A newly proposed spending bill from U.S. House Republicans would dramatically cut funding for comprehensive sex education and increase spending on abstinence-only education programs

Not only would new investment in neglected road, bridge and other infrastructure strengthen the country’s structural backbone, experts argue, it would replace lost jobs and help the country climb out of the current recession.

Pic via dbmathews.com More than 7,400 (.pdf) people in 10 states are still on AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists. Half of them, almost 3,700, live in Florida. The AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (known as ADAP) provide medications for the treatment of HIV and AIDS for people who cannot afford to pay because they are unemployed, uninsured or underinsured

Saying that New York real estate mogul Donald Trump is now the “Godfather of Politics,” Trump aide and attorney Michael Cohen indicated that if the GOP nomination doesn’t go the way Trump wants, an independent White House bid could still occur. “We’re not 100 percent sure what his future is going to be as it relates to a run,” Cohen told ABC News in the video clip embedded below. “On thing he has said many, many times is that, if he is not happy with who the Republican candidate is going to be, then 100 percent he is going to consider throwing his hat back into the ring in June

The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER ENSURING

Peter Baker’s news analysis of the tax payment problems of some Obama nominees is deeply strange. The premise is right—the Democrats look bad after a week of

Lisa De Pasquale, director of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, shares the news on Twitter. It’s another confirmation of Rubio’s prominence

In a search for film distributors, two independent anti-abortion-themed thrillers are hoping to make it to the big screen before next fall’s legislative

Now that primary season is over, Politico is reporting that environmentalists are hopeful Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might return to the fold. After backing

Something that yesterday’s look at the NATO/Afghan process to secure Kandahar overlooked is that one of the reasons U.S. officials have taken pains to say

Phyllis Schlafly, the attorney and conservative political activist, has published a piece arguing against the United States’ progressive tax structure, in which

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – The booms began around 1:45 p.m., loud enough to cause you to jump if you’ve never heard a Howitzer fire a

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted Friday that education is at the core of all efforts to promote economic development in rural America, echoing a theme that has appeared numerous times in reports by The Iowa Independent staff. “A well educated work force is critical to a thriving business — to developing new ways of producing goods and providing services.