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Just-released remarks from the Rose Garden on the Senate’s decision to strip funding for the F-22 fighter jet: I want to say a few words about a very important

For most of the summer and through the Democratic and Republican conventions, I spent a considerable amount of time traveling with both Sens. John McCain and

The stock market dipped Monday following news that the S&P Index dropped its outlook on the United States’ credit rating from “stable” to

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) will travel to Copenhagen this week to tell delegates at the international climate talks that the Senate will not pass legislation

As the Senate idles awaiting a procedural vote on unemployment legislation -- a vote that’s held up activity on all other pending legislation and nominations --

On Thursday, the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee will hear a presentation on vaccine safety by a researcher who asserts that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine may not be safe for children — and part of the basis for the concern appears to stem from her religious opposition to the use of human cells in the vaccine. The testimony of Dr

Hearing pushed for public plan, sidelined in new Senate bill.

Fox News presents a good test case for demonstrating how an unverified account of voting machine irregularities in Nevada can become a national story about how

The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has granted a waiver allowing for gasoline to be mixed with up to 15 percent ethanol for vehicles of

Many conservatives live in fear of the Democrats’ plans for health care reform, and they’ve been proportionately critical of the possibility that Democratic

In a Sen. Barack Obama campaign-organized conference call with reporters, Bob Bauer, the Obama camp’s general counsel, had this to say hen asked if the 40 to 45

Though not exactly a household name, Dr. Dora Schriro, a special adviser to the Department of Homeland Security until she announced her departure in September,

Two Algerians held for seven years without charge or trial at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay l have been acquitted after after a trial back home

I’ve written a few times about lobbying efforts by supporters of the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented students and military service members

A ballot question in Portland, Maine, that would have given legal immigrants the right to vote in city elections was voted down yesterday, with 52 percent

Terry Branstad Gov. Terry Branstad says the Republican candidate in a Nov

One of my oldest and best friends, Sam Goldman, takes up my half-serious proposal to speak forthrightly against torture as a conservative. He’s writing at First

A spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells me that the senator is filing cloture on Harold Koh, the president’s nominee for State Department Legal Adviser,