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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who until three weeks ago was one of three senators working on comprehensive climate legislation, offered a noncommittal response

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been hammered for using campaign funds to promote personal projects, but the real scandal may be the finance industry

Nevermind that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is on the record with his intent not to seek the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2012

<p>It&rsquo;s understandable that immigrants are seen as passive, compared to the citizens who make decisions. Immigrants are not

Supporters of a family and traditional values center at Texas A&M University plan to continue battling to pass a bill in the student senate that supports

On the same day that former Minerals Management Service chief Elizabeth Birnbaum is slated to testify before the national oil spill commission, The Washington

After two days of criticism that he should explicitly side with the Iranian opposition, President Obama yesterday said he was deeply troubled by the Iranian

Immigration advocates are wondering what the newly chosen Florida senator-to-be, George LeMieux (R), is going to mean for their campaign for immigration reform

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer last week vetoed legislation that would have overturned the state’s medical marijuana law. He said he thought the law needed some work but that he could not let the Legislature toss out a law approved by 62 percent of Montana voters. “I issue this veto of HB 161 because I do not believe it is right that 91 legislators overturn the will of the people of Montana,” he wrote in a letter to legislators.

It looks like in lieu of waiting for Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) replacement to come into the Senate, Democrats might reconvene the conference committee to fix

Colorado voters in 2008 and 2010 roundly rejected “personhood” initiatives that aimed to grant full legal rights to human eggs from the moment of fertilization. The national organization behind the idea, Personhood USA, then took its campaign to Mississippi, betting the state’s large bloc of religious voters might put it over the top and set the stage to challenge Roe v Wade , the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973

Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be featured speakers at the RightOnline conference in Minneapolis in mid-June

WorldNetDaily draws the latest over-heated attack on a member of the Obama administration from an unlikely source -- the autobiography of Princeton University

So, what was at Iran’s nuclear facility at Qom, anyway? U.N. inspectors found nothing to be worried about in a first look at a previously secret uranium

While the Department of Homeland Security has taken credit for a significant drop in unauthorized immigration since 2007, pointing to increased enforcement by

This morning, President Obama held a meeting at the White House to press, again, for infrastructure investment. The time is right for massive infrastructure

A group of five Nebraska state lawmakers have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to delay any decision on the Keystone XL pipeline for one year to allow more public and expert comment and possible modification of the project’s route.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Aww, there’s nothing quite like sitting in a bar alone with a laptop. I’m saving some tables at the Peanut Farm Bar & Grill for a

During budget negotiations the week before Friday’s government shutdown, Republican leaders pressed Gov. Mark Dayton to include a ban on abortions at 20 weeks gestation, a ban on taxpayer-funded abortions and a ban on some forms of stem cell research.

Part of the mission of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, led by Richard D. Land,

Bloomberg polls the masses, and finds that they do not think much of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill. Some headline numbers: Nearly four in five say

In a July 14 letter sent to the Florida congressional delegation, a large group of industry and agricultural representatives say that a set of water pollution standards are not the solution for algal blooms and fish kills plaguing many parts of Florida. # The letter is a response to one penned by the Florida Water Coalition, who implored lawmakers to adopt a set of numeric nutrient criteria in an effort to fight Florida’s water pollution, which many say costs Floridians in the long run. In an email dated July 7, the Coalition (which includes Earthjustice attorney David Guest) said that the failure to implement the criteria would be “a clear dereliction of duty,” as excess nutrients impose a threat to public health. # In its response, members from Florida’s top agricultural and industry organizations, as well as Associated Industries of Florida, a top lobbying firm, wrote their own letter