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When Lila Rose announced that she was a former home-schooler, she received a roar of applause from the thousands of Liberty University undergrads who filled the

Scott Wheeler of the well-funded National Republican Trust Political Action Committee — the guys who ran the 2008 Jeremiah Wright ads, and who spent big in

Four polls have been released this week showing different results among Minnesota’s electorate a year before the the 2012 vote on the controversial amendment to add a ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution. Two polls show that the amendment might get defeated while two others show a slight lead for anti-gay marriage activists. On Thursday, the St

In a rare bipartisan effort, members of the U.S. Senate voted Thursday, before returning to their districts to attend Veterans Day ceremonies, to approve a portion of Obama’s American Jobs Act that provides tax breaks to companies that hire veterans. Tom Harkin “It is deeply disturbing that one in five veterans under the age of 25 is unemployed

This is kind of some back-of-the-envelope troop math, but when I wrote earlier that Obama’s new 17,000-troop increase to Afghanistan was lower than Gen. David

U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern, briefing reporters yesterday in New York City after meetings with representatives from the world’s major economies, said he

At The Wall Street Journal, Sara Murray makes an interesting argument -- that expanded unemployment benefits might reduce the deficit, by keeping people working

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Bradlee Dean, the controversial heavy metal rocker from Minnesota, filed suit Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court alleging he was defamed by

Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants. EPA has set a Dec.

Not a whole lot of news came out of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Amb. Karl Eikenberry’s White House news conference this afternoon. McChrystal patiently

Both liberal and conservative experts are pushing Congress to follow the lead of 17 states that already have job-sharing systems, but some Republicans are balking at the cost.

The FBI seal (Pic via fbi.gov) The number of hate crimes in the U.S.

All the attention on the energy front today is going to the BP spill, but the Environmental Protection Agency quietly released its long-anticipated analysis of

Following last week’s National Bike Summit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today a sea change in American transportation policy. Proclaiming

ST. LOUIS -- Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.), speaking to a very friendly dinner crowd at the How To Take Back America conference, said that he’d

Iowa U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) can count himself among the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, according to a USA Today analysis of financial disclosures of members of Congress

A Gallup poll released Monday shows that for the first time since Gallup began asking the question more than 40 years ago, a majority of Americans favor legalizing marijuana. The poll showed 50 percent in favor of legalization and 46 percent opposed

A major theme at this past weekend’s faith-based conference The Awakening at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., was winning over young voters. During the