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Huckabee is a Christian socialist. He’s got a good heart and all that, but he’s wrong on the important issues, said Richard Viguerie, a longtime conservative strategist. He’s coming at them from a Christian perspective, trying to do the humanitarian thing, and it comes back to bite him.

Progressive activist Adam Green confronts Griff Jenkins — a Fox News color reporter who’s often assigned to cover left-leaning events in a goofy manner.

From a paragraph deep in this New York Times piece based on talks with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: Aides said General

In a surprising move last year, the Environmental Protection Agency fired the chairwoman of a chemical review panel six months after the panel took place.

Here’s a bizarre observation from six-term GOP Rep. Bob Inglis (S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, speaking to reporters today following a

In April, Ha’aretz’s Aluf Benn reported that the Obama administration was preparing sympathetic members of Congress for the prospect of a Hill-based effort by

A reversal from the Nashville, Tenn., event, which has battled back a lot of criticism of its organizers’ finances and its lack of media access. Media will be

Buried in this sad-but-otherwise-unsurprising story in Monday’s New York Times about the sorry state of the immigrant detention system is this rather curious

Michigan State Police Capt. Gary Nix says troopers arrested 11 people Wednesday night during protests at the state Capitol.

Calculated Risk has an excellent roundup today of local efforts to fight vacancies and blight caused by banks that abandon their foreclosed homes. Cities and

Please make it this wonderful FireDogLake exchange between Rand’s Seth Jones -- author of a new book tracing how the Afghanistan war became a fiasco --

Even as Senate Finance Committee Democrats are patting themselves on the back over a damn fine cost estimate for their enormous health reform proposal,

In advance of a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday morning, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has

The prospects for a public option -- a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers -- appeared dim after Senate Democrats decided they could

One of Texas’ most influential lobbying groups has expanded its reach to Washington, taking its arguments against government spending and environmental

The FBI details an upswing in threats against members of Congress last year. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) will serve up to five years in jail

Al Jazeera: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its disenchanted brothers in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged

Inspired by the numerous videos that have already been created as a part of the anti-suicide and anti-bullying public awareness campaign “It Gets Better,” federal government employees from the National Parks Service, U.S.

The Federal Reserve released its flow-of-funds report yesterday, and the document shows household net worth has fallen $11.4 trillion from its 2007 bubble-era