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Lou Hillman reports on the hundreds of people who protested President Obama’s trip to Wisconsin with signs like NO UNIVERSAL WELFARE and NOT ONLY NO BUT

Casual observers of the health care debate might be shocked to learn that things are just getting started in Congress.

The Big Picture offers a nice rundown of all the gloomy auto sales news today. Note that nearly all the major car manufacturers made the list of companies

Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama’s move to expand offshore oil

All the McCain campaign’s talk of Sen. Barack Obama’s desire to spread the wealth and promote redistributive change raises the question of whether

I mentioned earlier a few of the immigration hawks who are likely to win House seats today, but it’s worth running through some of the other congressional races

First lady Michelle Obama announced in a posting on BarackObama.com that Charlotte will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012. St. Louis,

Bank employees may not be digging into their pockets to make campaign contributions they way they used to, as Elana reports today, but those pockets are

Earlier this year, Stanton C. Hazelroth appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify as the head of the California Infrastructure and

All four GOP candidates featured at this weekend’s Florida Senate debate, hosted by the Florida Family Policy Council in Orlando, discussed their views on a range of controversial social issues, including abortion.

As part of a defense spending bill passed yesterday in the House, Democratic leaders included funding to prevent a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to

Erick Erickson has the news: Dick Armey, the former GOP House majority leader and current grand marshal of the Tea Party movement, will campaign for

The threat from moderate House Democrats to derail health reform legislation over abortion funding concerns is a problem that can be worked out this week, House

Who knew, eight years ago, that compassionate conservatism would include the partial nationalization of the banking industry? It happened today, and some

A military court ordered Victor Agosto, an Army signalman with III Corps based out of Ft. Hood, jailed for refusing to go to Afghanistan due to his belief that

Fresh out the inbox: Muslim tradition dictates a child born of a Muslim father is automatically of the same faith. If that child denounces the faith he is

Leading headlines this morning are two economic datapoints that count as positive in the current climate. Thursday is the day for weekly jobless claims, and

Housing advocates are approaching Obama’s foreclosure plan with cautious optimism -- and plenty of questions.

I just spoke with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who’s now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and asked him whether the party should

Bill Clinton’s camp didn’t appreciate John Edwards’ hypocrisy about extramarital affairs. Mike Castle can’t win as a write-in candidate for Delaware. The

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the

The EPA seal (Pic via sentryjournal.com) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it had issued Consent Agreements and Final Orders against 25 entities throughout the Southeast for violations of the Clean Water Act.