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The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team (JIT), comprised of representatives from the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation

The American Future Fund has purchased $400,000 worth of time to air this ad in Massachusetts -- a straightforward (if misleading)* attack on Democratic

I spoke to Kathryn A. Serkes of the Doctor Patient Medical Association at this morning’s rally against the health care bill, after Serkes had addressed the

At the bottom of Glenn Kessler’s piece in The Washington Post on President Obama’s Iran strategy is this telling quote: Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights

An Alabama-based tea party group will rally in Hoover, Ala., Tuesday evening in support of H.B. 56, the state’s new immigration enforcement law. The

Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney all achieve roughly equal results against Barack Obama in a new Gallup poll of registered voters which

A new law went into effect Friday requiring all labels of fur garments sold in the U.S. to list every single animal species used to make the clothing item.

Earlier this week, spin doctors for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) scrambled to do damage control following his comments Monday to ABC News advocating cuts

States are making strides in teacher evaluation systems, a report from the National Council on Teacher Quality finds. The data tells the story of

DES MOINES — Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum sounded off Friday morning aboutThursday evening’s GOP presidential debate in Ames, where many analysts and

UPDATED Nov. 3, 2011 with a correction* Plans to draw money and support from Maryland’s African-American churchgoers to fight next year’s marriage-equality

One thing that you didn’t get from Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in yesterday’s hearing on Pakistan: a sense of precisely what accountability measures the Obama

The conservative site sends a message to its members, penned by Erick Erickson: Get on the phone ASAP. The vote has not happened and it looks like it won’t

GOP Senate candidate Craig Miller (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) During this weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention, Craig Miller became the second GOP candidate in Florida’s Senate race to insult Occupy Wall Street protesters. Groups in Florida have been rallying in solidarity with the New York-based movement that has spread all over the country for weeks now. The protesters have expressed dissatisfaction with a range of issues including high unemployment, income inequality and corporate greed

I guess Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) -- actually, Addison Graves Wilson Sr. -- found out about that secret Democratic plot to provide all illegal immigrants with

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) isn’t Washington’s biggest fan of President Obama, as his withdrawal from consideration for commerce secretary last month demonstrated.

Freshman GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, who has steadily become a central figure in today’s Republican Party, spoke at the Ronald Reagan Library Tuesday. His message: Americans want the nation to be free and prosperous, but also compassionate.

The primary beneficiary of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a company that wants to refine tar sands oil into diesel and ship it to Europe while avoiding taxes, according to a new report by Oil Change International .