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Lawmakers in Pennsylvania are not allowing school voucher legislation to fall by the wayside, as news outlets are reporting a Senate committee will vote to

In another slap to the government’s attempts to conceal information about the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge ruled today that the Justice

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The long-awaited report on how Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration handled the firing of the state’s public safety commissioner is in the

<p>Is for machines to stop calling me.</p> <p>Our network site in Michigan is getting into the spirit of giving this holiday season by

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,

There’s no shortage of demagoguery about the Guantanamo Bay detainee cohort, regardless of how many times reason tries to prevail. Among the worst is the

Massey CEO Don Blankenship has defended his company this week in the wake of Monday’s horrific mining explosion, arguing that Massey’s safety precautions are

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is getting heat today for his response to a question about President Obama’s citizenship, delivered to a conspiracy-minded citizen

Are there any judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit without substantial holdings in oil and gas? Not many, notes the Alliance for Justice in

When the McCain campaign announced this weekend that it would start attacking Sen. Barack Obama via guilt by association, peddling smears about people he barely

In just the last seven days, third-party groups spent $153,000 on independent expenditures to buy commercials, make phone calls and fund other activities to

Michael Moynihan points to the cover of Glenn Beck’s upcoming book Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government. Below the

<p>At this point in the 2006 election cycle, Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) was the guy urging all his GOP colleagues to stay in Congress. Back then, Reynolds was

It’s a question that rarely gets asked: from where does the Obama administration locate the legal authority to launch missiles from the CIA’s unmanned drones

Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech to the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. He argued that the United States is on an

North Carolina’s House Transportation Committee Tuesday voted down an amendment offering a counter-balance to a proposal to introduce the anti-abortion rights

Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee attended a ceremony Monday marking the further expansion of Israeli housing in East Jerusalem, using the opportunity to expound on his views regarding what much of the international community considers to be illegal settlements on occupied territories and disregarding the notion that building on lands where Palestinians hope to establish a future state are damaging to the peace process: # “It is inconceivable in many ways that we would have to even argue and debate whether or not Israelis could live in Israel, not just in parts of Israel but anywhere in Israel they wished to live,” Huckabee added. “I cannot imagine as an American being told that I could not live in certain places in America because I was Christian, or because I was white, or because I spoke English.

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), a longtime supporter of immigration reform, could become a leader on

Providing some evidence that competition between private insurers doesn’t exactly keep coverage costs in check, Families USA, an advocate for health care

As I mentioned earlier, the economy is in trouble not just because major banks aren’t lending all that government bailout money out to business and consumers.

In his first interview since being appointed to lead the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, Herschel Vinyard spoke with The Florida Current about some of Florida’s more controversial proposals, including a stricter set of water pollution standards and a plan that would privatize portions of some Florida state parks.