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This is bound to draw some fire from the left: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination: As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) today joined the growing list of lawmakers who said they want Congressional hearings on the 14th Amendment, specifically its

As far as I’m aware, this is a first: A suicide bomber attacked a suspected nuclear-weapons site Friday in Pakistan, raising fears about the security of the

One by one, the powerful Democrats of coal country are calling for an investigation into yesterday’s explosion that killed at least 25 coal miners in Raleigh

When a lawyer who finds a legal avenue for shoving someone into a confinement box with an insect that person might believe is poisonous thinks you’ve crossed

In the past few weeks, Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has become the unlikely point person on a debate on Wall Street

With federal lawmakers on recess and unlikely to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB) — the current reiteration of the decades-old Early and Secondary

Over at the Weekly Standard, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Joshua D. Goodman have a piece purporting to give advice about how to export the Anbar Awakening --

Legal Times made an interesting observation today about President-elect Barack Obama’s opportunity to shift the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, a notoriously

Greg Sargent makes a great point about the torture memos: What was actually revealed in yesterday’s memos was the nature of the Bush administration’s

Here’s the internal American Petroleum Institute analysis that breaks down the economic effects that regulations proposed in light of the Deepwater Horizon oil

When Congress passed rules to reign in the most usurious of credit card practices, many Americans cheered. When Congress moved up the deadline for companies to

CHICAGO, Ill. - Speaking to reporters on the campaign plane Monday morning, an aide to Sen. Barack Obama placed a bet on Sen. John McCain’s next weak spot:

NASHVILLE -- The closest thing to a controversy at the National Tea Party Convention has been the opening speech by former congressman Tom Tancredo, in which he

Almost 29 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter delivered what is considered one of the worst speeches of his career. Americans were

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though the state Department of Agriculture has begun ramping up its campaign to educate Floridians about the safety of gulf seafood, some remain unconvinced that it is as safe for consumption as the Food and Drug Administration has claimed. Just last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental advocacy group, filed a petition with the FDA, demanding that the agency “recognize the hazards posed by PAHs in seafood and set a health protective standard.” PAHs, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, are pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer in both animals and humans