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Regarding our earlier challenge to name the big government effort now underway to save the financial markets, Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. has come up with a

I wrote last year about the strategy that had brought some online success to the Washington Examiner: editor Mark Tapscott’s aggressive hiring of conservative

Michigan’s largest teachers union is formally supporting efforts to recall the governor and members of the state House following last week’s passage of bills that reduce job security and limit collective bargaining rights. In a message to members on Friday the Michigan Education Association said that it will support existing recall efforts and will also consider backing some efforts to recall state senators. “Our elected leaders need to know that we will not sit idly by as they try to dismantle public education, destroy the middle class, and defeat MEA and other public sector unions!” the group said as it urged teachers to use their summer break to become politically active.

The foreclosure crisis has taken a turn in California’s wealthy Marin County, according to Miriam Alex-Lute at Rooflines. Marin residents waged a legal fight a

While this post serves, I think, as a good introduction to the next two days’ worth of Capitol Hill testimony on Afghanistan from Gen. Stanley McChrystal and

Does it bolster or undermine Mike’s point in his excellent post if I report that next week’s Nuclear Posture Review will be released in its entirety, without

Many abortion-rights groups believe Dr. George Tiller’s 1993 shooting and eventual murder in 2009 was in part provoked by a 1991 summer event held in protest

The new Public Policy Polling numbers on the Texas gubernatorial primary have first-time candidate Debra Medina surging against Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) and

Two reports released this week state that as part of broad immigration reform, border security and enforcement spending has to be shifted to avoid the ineffective use of billions of taxpayer dollars.

Over the weekend, noted blogger/hoax peddler Larry Johnson responded to my post on the anniversary of the Michelle Obama whitey tape with a new theory about

<p>I was just reading about John McCain’s campaign visit to Ohio today. McCain and his wife Cindy were joined on the trail by former Sen. Mike DeWine and

It’s the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolutionary capture of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. But instead of the typical anti-American protests, the Iranian

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

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.

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

The Republican Party makes history, but grumbles.

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