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Following up on this morning’s post about Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) calling for a hearing on 44 czars, I asked McHenry’s spokesman Brock McCleary where

After weeks of Congressional wrangling over raising the debt ceiling, U.S. Rep. Ron Paulthrew a wet rag on celebrations by his Republican colleagues, with a

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s legal foundation has filed a legal motion against a University of Michigan resolution that allows graduate research students to unionize. The resolution recently passed by a 6-2 vote by the University’s Board of Regents

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that defendants in criminal cases are entitled to

Mandatory E-Verify opponents do not propose eliminating an employee verification program, but say businesses need one that works well for employers — especially small companies — and workers. # Analysts and business organizations have argued that E-Verify alone would hurt Florida and the U.S. economy, but those same organizations say that a program that allows employers to verify a workers immigration status must be part of federal immigration reform

Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the recession’s racial divide, making the point that the hard times are hitting the black community

This week, Jesse Rothstein, the chief economist at the Labor Department, spoke at the Economic Policy Institute, and the organization just posted the slides.

CNN reports that former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) will be a fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics in the fall. Six years ago, Al Franken -- the man who

Maybe I should have added Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to my list of Congress members to watch on Afghanistan. At his weekly pen-and-pad briefing, the Democratic

Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida today, scrambling clean-up crews who

Bill Pascoe, who worked for both of the luckless Republicans who ran against Barack Obama in the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race, tells his party to distance

<< BACK TO STORY Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. -- Surrounded by a chain-link fence posted with signs warning of dangerous radiation levels, the

My story about WorldNetDaily today makes the case that a fringe Website can actually have an impact on the mainstream political debate if, as WND does, it

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

Shortly after Politico reported on an internal Democratic memo telling members to spin away the looming cost of a doc fix, Republicans began pointing

The Republican Party makes history, but grumbles.

This part of RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s press release On Democrat Withdrawals From 2010 Elections has all the hallmarks of news cycle giddiness. The

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