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As national climate legislation slowly simmers on the back burner of the Senate and expectations are lowered for the international climate conference in

Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, attacked Gov. Rick Scott Wednesday for signing a piece of legislation that would require all welfare recipients be drug-tested

The Western Conservative Political Action Conference has always been a smaller sibling to the annual Washington, D.C., CPAC. It’s gained some strength this year

Saturday Night Live’s debate skits and Tina Fey as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin usually draw all the attention this campaign season, especially from the political

Senate Small Business Committee Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-La.) slammed the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium at a hearing on the ban today.

I spent a bright and lovely morning doing anthropology among the vaccine skeptics, an angry group who blame the government for their children’s medical

In a press release, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin’s office announced that he will name a replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd during a 2 p.m. press

In a long-telegraphed speech billed as giving the west a bloody nose, Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday claimed to have enriched some of Iran’s

President Barack Obama will give a speech on financial regulatory reform this morning at New York’s Cooper Union college, located one mile from Wall Street. He

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has catalyzed as much hysteria as it has environmental stewardship. During the holiday’s first half-decade of observance,

This Saturday, July 2, Denver’s Civic Center Park will be filled with women and men banding together under the banner of “slut”. The first organized SlutWalk Denver is part of a grassroots campaign to raise sexual assault awareness and empower women

After a jury acquitted Youssef Megahed, an Egyptian-born 23-year-old engineering student from Tampa, Florida, his ordeal with the law didn’t come to an end.

Khaled Al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti seized in Pakistan in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay ever since, on Wednesday became the 28th Guantanamo detainee to win his

After plastering one abortion provider’s face and name on “Wanted”-style posters all over Charlotte, N.C., anti-abortion rights activist Philip

A report commissioned by the national oil spill commission found that new safety standards put forward by the Interior Department and the oil and gas industry

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute calculates 2.8 million U.S. jobs have been lost to China since 2001, the year the country joined the World Trade

As senators vote now on the DISCLOSE Act, it’s worth noting that the blogosphere has been alive with activity today -- almost all of which is urging members to

The American Action Forum -- the right’s answer to the Center for American Progress -- launched itself into the public consciousness Tuesday in Washington with