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What’s the next chapter in the health care reform battle? Politico lists the House members at risk for re-election after the health care vote. McCain vows

GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner (right), in a 2009 photo (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) In his campaign for the GOP nomination in the race to unseat Sen. Bill Nelson, Adam Hasner has been positioning himself as a tea party favorite on a slew of issues, but none seem as close to his heart as his long-time crusade against the supposed threat of Sharia in the U.S

On July 15, with little fanfare, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) introduced the Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009,* written to prohibit taxpayer

Weeks after United Auto Workers members approved a new deal with General Motors, the union’s Ford workers ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the only major American automaker not to go through bankruptcy in 2009. The United Auto Workers has made it official: Its 41,000 members at Ford Motor Co

Via Dana Goldstein, Esquire rounds up some quotes, anecdotes and nyuk-nyuks from the new Commerce Secretary-designate (and possible post-Clinton secretary of

If you just keep saying something over and over, does that make it true? That’s what I was wondering when I read that Attorney General Michael Mukasey

Dick Cheney endorses Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has canceled a fundraiser with Goldman Sachs after criticism over

Both of them are from an Agence France-Press write-up of an interview with Secretary of State and worst-national-security-adviser-of-all-time Condoleezza Rice.

In Florida, where donations to individual candidates are subject to strict limits, the big money in politics tends to flow through the parties, campaign committees and other channels.

I was on the scene at the Code Red rally against the health care reform bill, but I did not witness the events getting the most attention today -- the reported

Don Blankenship has never been accused of being genteel. Still, you’d think that even the pugnacious CEO of Massey Energy would recognize the disadvantages

The president of the Center for a New American Security, John Nagl, has an op-ed in the New York Daily News arguing against despair for the Afghanistan war.

A House bill to provide medical treatment to workers who helped in the aftermath of 9/11 passed yesterday without a predicted fight over including illegal

Call it a game of political chicken: Four days after the Bush administration lost its authority to sidestep the courts when eavesdropping on some U.S.

I wouldn’t normally flag a policy proposal by a car reviewer, but Dan Neil’s piece in The Los Angeles Times today deserves mention. With a few nifty

Last seen issuing racial epithets at Barack Obama in order to preserve Al Qaeda’s crumbling narrative, Ayman al-Zawahiri is under attack from a former jihadist

TWI’s David Weigel went on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about his reporting on Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream

Greg Sargent hears something similar to what I’m hearing about Republican plans for a possible Democratic push to pass elements of health care reform through

As I reported last week, it’s still unclear what consumers may do now that oil and gasoline prices have plummeted. A bit of news from TradingMarkets.com shows