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The Family Leader, an Iowa religious right group that has been active in GOP caucuses of that state, backtracked on a pledge the group released last week that asked candidates to vow to oppose pornography and same-sex marriage. The pledge contained a controversial statement about slavery, and over the weekend, the Family Leader removed that reference

<p>The Central Intelligence Agency will quietly defend its refusal to release a batch of top-secret files related to the assassination of President John

She doesn’t mention that Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) called her out for the Government Printing Office’s publication of hundreds of civilian nuclear sites, but House

With the Senate gearing up to consider unemployment insurance extension legislation next week, the National Employment Law Project has a useful chart breaking

Is Bill Ayers the new Kevin Bacon? It turns out that many political figures have tangential links to Ayers, including both major parties’ presidential

Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer faces an even tougher climate than in May 2008 when the Warner-Lieberman climate bill failed.

Mustafa Barghouti, a leading voice for a non-violent solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, says the United States can still foster change in the region.

Naturally, it’s beneath stuff about 11 people dying in a Mosul suicide bombing, but still: Egypt is due to reopen its embassy in Baghdad, closed since

Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope tells Michigan Messenger he has been investigating the allegations that a Lansing medical marijuana clinic, Your Healthy Choice Clinic, is offering inducements for votes — something that would violate state law. Swope says it is not completely clear what the dispensary is offering a free 1/2 gram of pot or a free medible (edible product made with marijuana) for

One of the most conservative Democrats in the House -- a freshman who said he couldn’t support Nancy Pelosi again -- is going to switch over to the GOP. Josh

Last week, when Congress left Washington for a month-long break without addressing the nation’s towering fuel costs, there was little mystery what topic

The Department of Justice announced Monday that it would release one Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay -- a 38-year-old doctor picked up in Afghanistan and

Economists say the White House has been way too meek in tackling the racial disparities in the country’s unemployment rates.

WorldNetDaily has been crowing about (and soliciting donations for) Where’s the Birth Certificate? anti-Obama billboards for months, but I hadn’t actually

The following is Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) response to today’s California Supreme Court decision upholding the state’s recently renewed ban on same-sex

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) didn’t succeed Thursday in his effort to amend the cash for clunkers program to disqualify those drivers earning more than $50,000 a

He is the medal-winning former Army doctor from Greeley who became a hero to “birther” conspiracy theorists like Denver radio talker Peter Boyles when he refused to deploy to Afghanistan, demanding to see his commander-in-chief’s birth certificate. Lakin didn’t get to see any birth certificate. He was court martialed, stripped of his rank, salary and pension and hauled off to Leavenworth

The Club for Growth is hustling to put up the signatories of its pledge to repeal whatever health care reform bill gets through Congress. The big names among

Her fans would say she mattered in 2009, and though she certainly generated headlines, too much of the year’s Palin coverage focused on the opinions and lower

Things are looking good for Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for attorney general, formally announced today. In addition to the highly flattering portrait of