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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged questions from a reporter at today’s daily briefing on whether President Obama would push the Environmental

Nice try from Rep. Howard Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. In asking Gen. Odierno to explain the case for

For a very good and comprehensive look at why, as he puts it, homegrown Islamic terrorism isn’t a threat, even after the Fort Hood horror, read every word of

Former senator Ted Stevens died today in a plane crash in Alaska at the age of 86. And although he was always “very protective” of Alaska’s minimally

A meeting Tuesday between President Obama and key senators produced few answers on the path forward for energy legislation. But a consensus may be forming around a price on carbon for the utilities sector only.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal effectively settles this calibration of how his strategy for the process of securing Kandahar shifted in reaction to local

With less than a week until the general election, Christians are stepping up their involvement in the race. There is PrayforSarahPalin.com, a Website that

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) tells The Hill that the landmark climate bill being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will likely

Speaking at a labor conference in Washington today, Hilda Solis went after Massey Energy for the company’s role in the explosion that killed 29 miners in

Dan Powers, a former small business owner from Burnsville, announced his campaign for Congress on Monday in an open letter to Rep. John Kline, who he will challenge in 2012.

Democrats were quick to blame Republicans for their inability to gain 60 votes for a climate bill with a utility-only cap on greenhouse gas emissions. Senate

Just out from the White House: Good morning, everybody. I want to just make a brief comment about the fact that the two young journalists, Euna Lee and Laura

Along party lines, the House Civil Law Committee passed a bill Monday to put a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage in Minnesota to one man and one woman before voters. In a hearing in which religious leaders far outnumbered legal testifiers, emotions ran high as the father of a gay soldier killed in Afghanistan appealed to veterans to oppose the amendment. The committee heard several hours of testimony, including that of Bishop Bob Battle of the Berean Church of God in Christ

Nader Nadery, a member of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, said that the plan is indeed a mater of concern for us who work to promote the rule of law and protect human rights.

The Nebraska legislature, meeting in a special session to deal specifically with the Keystone XL pipeline that would cross their state, may be on the verge of passing a bill that could give the governor control over the route that pipeline would take. On Wednesday, the Natural Resources Committee voted 7-1 to send a bill to the full legislature that would require all oil pipeline companies to have the routes of their pipelines certified by a state panel headed by the governor before starting construction. LB4 , introduced by Schuyler Sen

Halloween falls just a few days before the most important election of our lives, as the saying goes, and some Obama supporters are hoping to turn the scary

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In an unprecedented move, Taliban insurgents are expected to throw the U.S. into unfamiliar territory by creating a hot winter of fighting.

Democrats are passing around this article by election handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, which takes the hammer and tongs to Rasmussen Reports. Rothenberg focuses

A Monday blog entry posted by Family Research Council Action references a media account of how adoption is changing due to technology, but FRCA omits the portion about technology and instead attempts to make the leap that a lack of birth mothers is due to abortion services, and specifically due the presence of Planned Parenthood. The FRC report, authored by Nick Frase, links to a news report in the Merrillville, Ind.-based Post-Tribune that discusses how the Internet has changed adoptions , but pulls only five paragraphs from an interview with the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Gary in which the charity expressed its hope that a legislative effort to defund Planned Parenthood would have brought more birth mothers

The Obama administration has said its immigration policies are working to keep out illegal immigrants, and a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center today

There have been some pretty nasty banners waved around by the town hall crowds protesting the Democrats’ health overhaul plans in recent days, but none reaches