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Speaking on a Massachusetts local television news broadcast, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) indicated that he’s leaning towards voting yes on financial regulatory

National church-state separation and LGBT-rights organizations are pushing back in response to Gov. Rick Perry’s recent, very public call for prayer and

This morning, Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) introduced an amendment to reinstate subsidies that help newly unemployed workers purchase health insurance to the

Sometimes sorry seems to be the hardest word, but Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner apologized profusely at his confirmation hearing today for

I emailed Curt Levey, director of the Committee for Justice, after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he would support Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to

The radio host, on vacation, throws up his hands: I don’t know what this means. In a free-form statement, he mostly just takes shots at the elites who doubt

In the month since the Deepwater Horizon disaster caused a Gulf of Mexico gusher, many experts have both doubted the official estimate that just 5,000 barrels

I’ve been focusing intently on the jobs situation and unemployment extension bill this week, but here’s a roundup of the need-to-know news on the Wall Street or

Noah Shachtman gets a look at it in his sprawling profile of Andrew Breitbart. The scene, from a meet-up between O’Keefe and Breitbart that Shachtman

Just released from Rep. Ellen Tauscher’s (D-Calif.) office: “For the past 13 years, I have had the honor and privilege of serving you in Congress.

Shira Toeplitz reports on the ego boost that Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts has given to Republican candidates and strategists. So far it’s been enough

I’m really fascinated by the rapid rise and apparent fall of Debra Medina, the small-time Republican activist who surged into the mid-20s in her race for the

Twice a year, thousands of machine gun and artillery enthusiasts attend the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.

As reported this morning by the St. Petersburg Times , the state Department of Environmental Protection has slowed down its reconsideration of a controversial landfill permit application in Dade City. # The Times reports that the department has decided to consult with local leaders before a final decision is made.

At this point, the only words to describe Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) when it comes to Iraq are "pathological" and "liar." My colleague

Army Lt. Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and Arabic translator who famously challenged ’Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ last year, has been recalled to active duty,

Via Politico’s Ben Smith. Have you ever wanted to try your hand at investigative reporting? If so, now’s your chance. The city of Wasilla, Alaska, has posted