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Protesters with Occupy Kalamazoo approached the Kalamazoo City Commission on Monday night to ask the city to waive a $500 daily reservation fee and to waive an ordinance which prohibits sleeping in city parks between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.

The Iowa Family Policy Center, a division of The Family Leader, did not comply with federal-grant protocol when it relinquished the last year of federal funding

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

One of the most important chapters of the 2006 Army-Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual is the seventh chapter on leadership. In COIN environments,

According to Healthy State, state Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, a member of the Legislative Budget Commission, expects that the committee will accept the millions in Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program grant money allocated to the state by the Affordable Care Act.

Milestones don’t always mark what they should. Tomorrow all these things are true: there are 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq; procedures and circumstances 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

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

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

Anyone who’s wandered the halls of the Capitol in recent years is likely well familiar with the irascible Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.). The Hall of Fame baseball

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

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