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The Wright-Obama drama this week is more universal than racial, writes law professor and friend-of-the-site David Troutt. From Roman mythology to the Old

It’s been almost exactly 18 months since Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter, filed a lawsuit demanding that his state keep

That’s the apparently sincere wish of Larry Kudlow: With so many weak-kneed leaders in business and politics today, Gregg has just provided an incredibly

Comedy Central host and super PAC architect Stephen Colbert considered Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the “embarrassment… of riches” that makes up the

Bowling Green, Ohio We’ve just wrapped up the second Palin campaign event of the day, a Victory in Ohio rally whose highlight -- aside from the rather

A statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (aka E-FORCSE) will finally go live on Thursday. For supporters of the program, its implementation has been a long time coming, but is welcome in a state where prescription drug abuse has reached near-epidemic proportions . # Starting Thurs., Sept

The Leahy-Feinstein substitute bill I discussed in my piece this morning about the USA PATRIOT Act was just approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 13-8,

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, has a new Spanish-language ad touting her opposition to the Arizona law, SB 1070, and

Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*. In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and,

No details on this yet, but the stimulus summary floating around Washington includes the following: Provides incentives to buy new cars, including light trucks

Billed as an “alternative” to Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer and fast event The Response, the ACLU of Texas and Americans United for Separation of Church and

So we don’t know exactly what significant actions CIA Director Leon Panetta has acknowledged to the House intelligence committee were not properly briefed to

Its a clean coal culture war. Last week, the Coen Brothers, Hollywood wise guys with a dozen feature films to their credit, released a satiric 30-second

It’s looking like it’ll be interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn -- who came under fire from Fox News host Glenn Beck last week for quoting Mao

Wow, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial on the Minnesota recount was the screed heard ’round the world. Here’s Bill O’Reilly, the Sinestro to Al Franken’s Hal

NASHVILLE -- The 1,100 ticketholders for Sarah Palin’s speech have assembled in the ballroom after a lengthy wait outside. As promised, the dinner being served

Luxury goods have very low tariffs, while cheap clothes, underwear, shoes and household products have much higher rates, making the tariff system our most regressive tax, says a trade policy expert.

This morning, Michael Barone joined a number of American Enterprise Institute fellows for a briefing on the 2009 elections. One of the more interesting

Pat Toomey, the former Club for Growth president and leading Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2010 Senate race, has announced a $1 million haul in the

The DCCC pulls out of the Hawaii special election. Congress won’t find a way to pay for Cash for Caulkers until after it passes. Tea Party activists

A study, the first of its kind, shows that undocumented immigrants pay sales taxes and property taxes, and at least half pay an income tax. # According to an Immigration Policy Center report released yesterday, tax day, the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy has estimated the state and local taxes paid in 2010 by households that are headed by unauthorized immigrants.