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After being tipped off by a recent Washington Blade article about GOP LGBT groups’ attempts to influence the Republican Party platform at the 2012 Republican

Michael Riley got former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) on the phone to ask about the just-revealed assault charges against Marcus Epstein, the executive director

I’ve just gotten my hands on the transcript of last Thursday’s Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on czars. There’s a lot in

Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- currently in the lead, according to Gallup, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 -- signed (PDF) on Wednesday the Susan

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) A Nevada judge on Monday ruled (.pdf) that his state’s proposed “fetal personhood” measure, which would outlaw abortion by defining life as beginning at the moment of conception, is misleading and confusing to voters. As part of his decision, the judge rewrote the initiative to include language that makes it less vague

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Notwithstanding Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) infamous outburst, President Obama’s big speech Wednesday

In a recent interview with Ocala’s Star-Banner , Republican state Rep. Dennis Baxley touts the Legislature’s successful focus on anti-abortion measures during this year’s legislative session. # Baxley, a former executive director of Florida Right to Life , was among a handful of state legislators who pushed through abortion-related bills during the Legislature’s spring session

The Democrats’ move to invoke cloture on the DISCLOSE Act this afternoon fell short of the necessary 60 votes. The official tally ended up at 57-41, with every

The U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs in March to beat economists’ predictions

Senate Democratic leaders won quick praise from seniors this week when they vowed to close the nettlesome coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, but left unmentioned was the looming battle.

I keep trying to get confirmation of what former Sen. Bob Graham has been been saying about the CIA keeping erroneous records of what it told Congress in 2002

Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar voted in a Senate committee hearing Thursday to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Both testified that DOMA hurts same-sex couples who are legally married in several states.

According to a new international report, the United States is falling behind most of the developed world in the well-being of mothers and children. The U.S. was ranked 31 out 164.

The same group that helped open the door for a Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections is now trying to slam

Andrew Breitbart (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) During a recent tea party meeting in Boston, political commentator Andrew Breitbart made a slew of controversial comments about the divide between liberals and conservatives. Breitbart, who often appears on Fox News and runs the media syndicate breitbart.com , will be appearing in Orlando on Saturday alongside a host of Florida Republican elected officials. “There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should, and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first shot.’ ‘Bring it on,’” Breitbart said .

As it turned out, Planned Parenthood did not lose federal funding for family planning and reproductive services in the federal budget for fiscal year 2011

So the rumors were true. Moments ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates officially announced that Marine Gen. James Amos, the assistant commandant, will replace

On the same day that the government produced the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report on interrogations, it also turned over seven more memos and letters from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Two Democratic lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would authorize federally-funded abortions for women in the military who have been impregnated as the

Despite its minuscule marketing budget and no national distributor, the anti-abortion rights film Bloodmoney has already influenced public policy.

It looks like the millions of people expected to descend on Washington next month without a ticket for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will be able