Breaking News

The senator from South Carolina has hired one of The Washington Times’ star reporters -- and a frequent cable news guest -- as his senior communications

After the FOMC, the Federal Reserve policy committee, voted Wednesday to attempt to stimulate the economy by continuing to target low-interest rates while

Most of the schools at immediate risk for takeover by the state appear to be in the Detroit metro area, but northern schools could also face Emergency Managers, according to state Rep. Greg McMaster (R-Kewadin). “A lot of schools in my district are at risk of receivership,” said McMaster whose district includes Antrim County, Charlevoix County, Otsego County and part of Cheboygan County.

The Senate is expected to recess this week (likely between Wednesday and Friday) in order to give lawmakers campaigning time ahead of the November mid-term

They already have a liberal, a conservative and a wild card on board; now the tripartisan Senate group crafting climate legislation is trying to fill the spaces

Yes, it’s true -- Steve Hayes of The Weekly Standard is 100 percent right about a bizarre op-ed from Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett contending that Ahmadinejad

Earlier today I wondered what Gen. David McKiernan, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, thought about empowering tribal forces to augment Afghan police and

President Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month to attend part of the international climate conference, The Washington Post reports. The decision

A Republican state Representative from Jackson County is coming under fire for accepting tax breaks and government loans for his company and then laying off more workers. Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) received a tax abatement in 2005 from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for his non-union company, Orbitforms

DNC chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, called the GOP’s agenda “anti-women” and “a war on women” yesterday . Her comments came in response to recent efforts by the GOP to defund Planned Parenthood and to end Title X funding for clinics that perform abortions. # “It’s just so hard for me to grasp how they could be so anti-women as they are,” Wasserman Schultz told the media at a press event, according to U.S

The biggest story out of this weekend’s Tea Party protests, unfortunately for its organizers, seems to be the Duval County, Florida Republican Party’s

The White House sent out a press release last night cataloging statements of praise by leaders in various fields for President Obama’s decision, announced

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple

President-Elect Obama’s new economic team was the big announcement of the day on Monday, and overall the reviews were mostly good. Smart, competent, experienced

Gov.

A study released today ranked the top 100 American companies on how well they disclose their political activities, finding that many companies are moving towards adoption of disclosure policies, although others, such as 3M, are being left behind. The ability for corporations to spend huge amounts of cash on elections without disclosure arose with the U.S

After the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on July 29, 2008, TWI got to wondering how many members of Congress came before him. The answer: at least

The New York Times has a big, excellent piece about the Obama administration’s inability or unwillingness to produce its long-promised metrics for measuring

The New York Times has an excellent in-depth interview with Paul Volcker, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, an advocate for the current financial

A bunch of liberal bloggers are criticizing Time magazine’s David Von Drehle for this line about the 9/12 protests in the lede of his story about Glenn