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A district court Judge in Ohio yesterday rejected a lawsuit from the Susan B. Anthony List, which argued an Ohio elections law prohibiting false claims was

I knew that if I said something, I wouldn’t have a job tomorrow, says former miner Chuck Nelson.

As the House passed the 2011 defense authorization bill this afternoon containing a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Defense Secretary Gates issued a video

OXFORD, Miss. -- The Bullet looked downright angry with Sen. Barack Obama after Friday night’s debate. Standing in the Spin Room next to the debate

A bill in the Texas House seeks to criminalize substance abuse during pregnancy. Currently, no such state or national law exists; however, for years, various

The legal challenge to Iowa’s same-sex marriage ban will finally come to a close tomorrow, when the Iowa Supreme Court issues its ruling in the case of Varnum

Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, points out that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s

Via Ezra Klein, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study this month on whether immigration hurts the economy and takes away jobs from

Eric Kleefeld points to the internals of a Fox News poll -- one that shows President Obama’s overall approval rating dipping into the mid-40s -- that has a mere

The junior senator from New York talks with Lloyd Grove about her successful preemptive drubbing of Harold Ford, sounding about as giddy as it’s possible for

With the economy this bad, people obviously are cutting back on their spending. But they’re also changing their spending patterns, and those choices sometimes

A bill that would ban taxpayer funding to clinics that perform abortions — and caused significant controversy over the definition of rape — has been changed by the bill’s author , Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey.

The Michigan House of Representatives passed a series of bills Thursday that will revamp the state’s tax structure, shifting $1.8 billion in taxes from businesses to individuals, including a new tax on pensions. Republicans argue that reducing the tax burden on businesses will allow them to create more jobs, fueling an economic boom.

After I wrote my earlier posts about how the National Rifle Association opposes the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and explaining the

Though the mainstream media has left the story alone, reports of a new slick of oil spotted about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, near British Petroleum’s Maconda well, have many concerned. Though the theories are un-comfirmed by BP, many worry that the oil might be the result of yet another BP spill . Several samples collected by the Mobile Press-Register in late August bore the same chemical footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil, according to chemists with Louisiana State University

Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry,

Since Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory in Massachusetts last month, the thinking among a good number of moderate Democrats seems to be that simply having

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City to lay out the Obama administration’s new counterterrorism

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial America’s toughest sheriff who pushed for SB 1070 and parades inmates around in pink, faces another scandal: His office

A Canadian company hoping to revive the long-dormant uranium mining hotbed of southwestern Colorado is touting an economic report prepared for Montrose County showing world uranium demand is expected to double in the coming year, according to the Telluride Daily Planet . But opponents of Energy Fuels’ proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill – what would be the nation’s first new processing facility in nearly three decades if it’s ever built – don’t put much stock in the new economic report produced for Montrose County by Economic & Planning Systems, Inc .

I guess there must be a bright side for somebody in any economic downturn, and top bankruptcy lawyers seem to have found it. As hard times hit more businesses,