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Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), has surprised a lot of people by surging in polls and fundraising to quasi-frontrunner status in next year’s U.S.

Today the Commission on Presidential Debates launched an online toolset through MySpace, in a dedicated portal called MyDebates.org. Organizers say this is

Despite the administration’s focus on environmental issues, polls show that fewer Americans are worried about global warming than in recent years. Experts say the struggling economy is responsible.

Preempting Washington politicians looking for easy ways to close the deficit and reduce the debt, the Pentagon is trimming its own budget. Yesterday, Secretary

To follow up on my post last week about how the Bush administration Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted the recently released torture memos could have

Last week I reported -- ok, ok, fine, Michael Gordon at The New York Times scooped me by 20 minutes -- that a senior military liaison to the Iraqi security

IF you read the blog of Glenn Reynolds, the libertarian-leaning Instapundit who reigns over the right-ish blogosphere with a carpal-tunnelled fist, you see

J.D. Hayworth, a former Arizona Republican congressman who went down to a narrow defeat in 2006, now hosts a radio show on KFYI 550. Today he interviewed Orly

By curbing the practice of dumping waste in valleys, the move represents the most significant administrative action ever taken to address mountaintop removal coal mining, according to one environmental group.

The new plan to target employers might be significant at first glance, but details make the extent of the change less clear.

The Minnesota Independent and seven other local sites were included in The Fix ‘s annual list of best political blogs. The Fix, which is run by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, relied on nominations from readers to compile the list

The House oversight committee is holding a hearing now on the collapse of Lehman Bros. and the financial crisis generally. This hearing-- and four others-- will

In 2005, University of Colorado Regent Tom Lucero gained a smidgen of national attention for his role in investigating -- and eventually stripping of tenure --

The Weekly Standard and Greg Sargent are both reporting that the House Democratic leadership is boldly (my characterization, not the Standard’s) standing up to

Last night, omnipresent Obama conspiracy theorist Orly Taitz gave WorldNetDaily a scoop. Taitz, a dentist with a degree from an online law school, had finally

A small number of conservative groups and 42 bishops are turning the speech into a watershed moment, while obscuring the president’s support among Catholics.

Looks like last month’s massive oil spill will have an impact on drilling provisions in the climate bill after all. The Washington Post reports that the climate

Experts say that age discrimination is severely compounding the jobs crisis for older workers in the recession, although the phenomenon is difficult to quantify or to prove.