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During an interview on MSNBC this morning, GOP strategist Mike Murphy -- who helmed Sen. John McCain’s 2000 primary bid -- said the McCain campaign was smoking

Mary’s blog post this morning on The Washington Post’s report today that Fannie Mae is going to pay bonuses to four top executives offers a test of the

Democratic leaders have been busy patting themselves on the back this morning following the tentative deal struck last night between liberal and conservative

The federal government’s answer to the furor over AIG’s payments of ridiculous multi-million dollar bonuses to the same executives who helped drive the company

Though Personhood USA has a reach into every state –- and has collected almost 1 million signatures supporting personhood legislation throughout the country

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy teamed up with other House Republicans on Thursday on the front steps of the Supreme

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who has said he wants to take over as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has consistently denied the broad

Republicans in the Senate are trying to hold the Defense appropriations bill hostage to their efforts to kill the health care bill. A filibuster has already

On a conference call hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) delivered an impassioned plea in advance of

Pro-immigrant religious groups with about 700 members from nine different states plan to rally this afternoon on the West Lawn of the Capitol to press for

Former Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller will resign from the legislature to take the head position at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.

Iran’s Green Movement and its allies are concerned that crippling sanctions against the regime would harm Iranian citizens and discredit the opposition.

Senator-elect Marco Rubio (R) will head to Israel on Sunday, reports Israeli news site Ynetnews: With victory in the congressional elections less than a day

In April U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton met with community groups in Detroit, promising to investigate reports of racial profiling and abuse by agents in the Detroit field office and issue a report within 30 days. This deadline has now passed with no indication as to when or how the agency will formally respond to concerns about unjust and violent immigration enforcement practices.

Ben Smith at Politico has a good piece attempting to shed light on one of the most opaque aspects of Obama administration Kremlinology: what in the world the

And because it’s almost 6 p.m. on a Friday, here comes word that the ACLU is taking its case for declassifying hundreds of photographs documenting the torture

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced this week that he signed the lease for the country’s first offshore wind project. The Cape Wind project, in