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Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is more responsible for the current state of the economy, only 18

State Democrats introduced legislation Monday aimed at restoring six weeks worth of unemployment insurance cut by the GOP-dominated legislature earlier this year. The legislation was introduced in the House by Rep

It appears that cap-and-trade legislation is turning out to be popular in the states of some conservative Democrats, according to a new poll that Democratic

Proponents of a renewable energy standard, which would require that a certain percentage of the country’s electricity be produced from sources like wind and

For a domestic audience, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is arguably awkward. Concern-troll Mickey Kaus is already editorializing that he should turn it

Sen. Barack Obama’s emphatic denunciation of his former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., for a series of comments the reverend made during a sort of media

The administration will have to reconcile its new goals with the escalated war and unilateral right to assassinate terrorists around the world that it has also pursued.

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Via Mark Knoller, the Treasury Department announced that as of yesterday, the U.S. national debt has crossed the $13 trillion mark. The exact number is now

The movement to extend the school day in the hopes of improving student performance in Chicago’s public school system is off to a slow start, but the effort follows an emerging national trend of policy makers and administrators who believe American school children are not spending enough time in school.

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The key bit of this story on a number of conservative House Republicans howling — sorry, proceeding to the floor of the world’s second-greatest deliberative

The Florida Department of Children and Families testified before a state House committee Tuesday about the implementation of new drug screening requirements placed on Temporary Assistance for Need Families (aka TANF) applicants. So far, the department reports that about 2.7 percent of temporary assistance applicants were denied because they tested positive for illegal drug use. Pete Digre, who briefed the committee on behalf of the department, said that “very, very few people are testing positive.” Digre told the committee that one of the more interesting numbers the department has seen so far was the 563 applicants who started an application but failed to “show up” for the drug test. Some members of the committee alluded to the possibility that this meant the law was deterring drug users from applying for cash assistance

Some blunt talk in a local news interview from Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), tying in to my story from last night on how Republicans are trying to make Ted Kennedy’s

Members of Congress jockey to take credit for consumer-friendly legislation, though the Fed already applied the same rules.

Mortgage lenders aren’t selling subprime loans much anymore, but apparently the credit rating agencies that certified them as safe and profitable investments

About 3,800 elderly and disabled refugees, set to lose their federal aid tomorrow, could earn reprieve today if Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is successful

At the beginning of this year, we reported on Air France’s plan to go green. Now the airline is joining forces with nine other industry leaders and

It appears that Senate Democrats have launched a war room on Twitter, not-so-subtly named DemWarRoom. The first tweet: – You can follow TWI on

At the start of what became a serious line of questioning on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s view on how Miranda rights should be applied in