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After cutting roughly $900 million in direct funding to K-12 education several weeks ago, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania told reporters Tuesday

A day after the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) lauded Basic Rights Oregon’s decision not to push for a marriage-equality bill next year, news comes

Melody Barnes, President Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, said today that the Obama administration does not have second thoughts about pushing health care

Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office issued findings that the Treasury Dept. has done nothing to measure the effectiveness of its Wall Street bailout

A sex education curriculum rife with factual flaws and medical inaccuracies continues to be taught to the state’s middle and high school students in at least

Last week, lawyers for Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Kurt Browning responded to the case brought in federal court with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union , which seeks to block implementation of a sweeping set of changes to state elections laws. # The state’s lawyers argue the judge should not block the implementation of the law, and that the case should be dismissed, because, among other things: # The state has already submitted the changes in House Bill 1355 to the U.S

Actually, the direct quote is much more colorful. During a riveting news conference on the federal corruption charges being brought against Illinois Gov. Rod

Compassionate conservatism at work. One wonders if George W. Bush’s presidential library will feature an interactive waterboarding exhibit.

While Sen. John McCain is busy bolstering his friend-of-the-military image in the Middle East this week, Democratic Sen. Jim Webb (Va.) is calling on the GOP

Americans for Prosperity might be busy enjoying its conference in DC this weekend, but the group might soon be defending its tax exempt status before the IRS.

And here’s the once skeptical ambassador to Afghanistan. I believe the course the president outline does offer the best path to stabilize Afghanistan and

President Obama is expected to receive the final report of a Department of Energy commission that he organized to advise him on the proper means of regulating the practice of hydrofracking.

In eighth-grade civics, I learned that the U.S. Senate had, and would continue to have, 100 members. Well, Mr. Miller, seems you didn’t tell me the whole

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) kicked off the annual Federalist Society convention today with a call to oppose President Obama’s liberal nominees for the federal

Bill Gertz has kind of a breathless piece in today’s Washington Times about how Defense Secretary Bob Gates is asking many of the Pentagon’s political

The Senate on Wednesday easily cleared the last procedural barrier standing in the way of passing legislation to extend unemployment insurance benefits as long

<div class="mini gray">Illustration by: Matt Mahurin</div> <p>It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address.

In The New York Times’ Sunday piece on the Truth Commission proposed by Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) , which I wrote about last week, reporter Scott Shane notes