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We should be getting the final round of specifics from the Pentagon about what programs and platforms and systems and operations are funded at what level for

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters today that he supports the public option, which twice failed in the Senate Finance Committee

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is going on the air for his 2010 re-election campaign, running two minute-long ads. One image that jumps out, from the ad titled Hard

When last we checked in on New START, the text of the nuclear deal with the Russians -- which has not been released -- didn’t impact missile defense, according

Chris Simcox, the co-founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, is in D.C. this week -- he marched in the taxpayer march on 9/12, and he was working radio

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Blackwater-in-Afghanistan hearing is just getting underway, but here’s an early highlight, courtesy of the committee’s

New Jersey Republicans accuse a Tea Party independent in the race against Rep. John Adler (D) of being a plant. For Crist, no longer facing a bruising GOP

Tommy Christopher interviews Dale Robertson, the Tea Party activist who became infamous after I published a photo of him holding a sign with the phrase

The creation of a statewide prescription pill-monitoring database is well underway, with a new name and new requirements.

A majority of South Carolina Democratic Party’s executive committee voted Thursday night to reject a protest against the results of the state’s Senate primary,

Democrat Kathy Hochul is reportedly streaming ahead of Republican Jane Corwin in the Buffalo-area special election that has been marked out as a first test of the controversial GOP congressional budget plan crafted by Paul Ryan that seeks to “save” Medicare by turning it into a voucher system. Hochul hammered on the Ryan Medicare plan and Corwin defended it mostly by backing away from it. “Just for the record, I am not decimating Medicare!” she told seniors in the aging upstate district

Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as

An hour ago I mused about what the Club for Growth, which has spent over a million dollars opposing Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), might do about the latest poll

At least three senators agreed to back Elizabeth Warren. The Taliban exploits flooding in Pakistan. Chuck Schumer wants more credit from

The Obama administration has spoken out against the 2012 budget plan Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) presented last week. Over the weekend, Obama’s senior advisor

As the Senate race between Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina (R) narrows, abortion rights groups are throwing their weight

Harsh words for Chris Wallace. Michele Bachmann, lampooned in seeds. Is McDonnell getting Borked? Tom Ridge walks it back. Jenna Bush gets a new

Two of the president’s stated goals for this administration are to implement a cap-and-trade system and to make the U.S. a leader on climate change. He

The Aqua Buddha prank victim says attacks on Rand Paul raise legitimate questions. Mark Sanford is still dating his Argentinean former mistress. In case

A group of local pastors and the Lansing branch of the NAACP held a press conference today inside a Lansing courthouse to raise some serious questions about the fatal shooting of a 17 year-old girl in March by a Lansing police officer. The shooting took place in the early morning hours of March 14th at a South Lansing Bank of America