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Since she won the Republican primary on Tuesday, tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell’s take on premarital sexual relations have become abundantly clear.

Last week, protesters with Occupy Tampa and Occupy Orlando were arrested.

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of

In the wake of Scott Brown’s astonishing Senate win in Massachusetts Tuesday, it seems that everyone has a theory about what message the voters in the Bay State

New research by the Center for Public Integrity has found that political action committees associated with the ethanol industry gave nearly $1 million to 200 Congressional candidates in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles. Included in that total was $37,900 to U.S. Sen

Billed as an “alternative” to Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fast event “The Response,” the ACLU of Texas and Americans United for Separation of Church

When most people hear Watergate, after Nixon, the first two names that come to mind are Woodward and Bernstein. The two Washington Post reporters are largely

Religious groups in Florida are still not pleased with the federal government’s decision requiring health insurers to cover birth control as a preventative service. Their objections come despite a provision that “allows religious institutions that offer insurance to their employees the choice of whether or not to cover contraception services.” # Yesterday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it would uphold the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include contraception in a list of preventative services. This means women will be able to receive birth control without having to make the co-payments usually required to get them.

This morning, Peter Orzsag -- until recently, the head of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget -- made waves by publishing a New York Times opinion

On March 11, President Obama issued a signing statement attached to an omnibus spending bill that qualified a small but important provision that would deny a

At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor most of

The White House announced Friday that it will nominate Thomas M.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has sent a letter to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the head of the Banking Committee and the architect of the financial

A fund created by the South Dakota Legislature in 2005 to defend a controversial anti-abortion-rights bill introduced that year is largely bankrolled by

If today’s confirmation hearing for Solicitor General-nominee Elena Kagan was a supposed trial balloon for the scrutiny of a possible Supreme Court

At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim reports that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Greg Meeks (D-N.Y.) are attempting to insert an insurer-friendly change into

This idea that voter discontent has left all incumbents vulnerable in November is a reporter’s dream. It’s clean. It’s easy. But is that really what happened

The oil industry is railing against a plan by President Obama to spend billions of dollars on new transportation infrastructure because the $50 billion proposal