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The Wall Street Journal reports a familiar face is back on the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain at a stop in Aspen, Colo.: Ousted John McCain

Militia activists love Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller. Barney Frank says the economy will take off, but too late to help Dems in November. Jon Stewart

The Obama transition formally announced Jack Lew and Jim Steinberg as deputy secretaries of state just now. On Lew, my pal Mark Kleiman, who knows the guy,

Obama may have a hard time fulfilling his promises on immigration reform. U.S. envoy George Mitchell to meet with Netanyahu in efforts to push

Nate Silver doesn’t think unemployment will hit 10 percent. Organizing for America faces a big test. Palin discourages town hall disruptions. Dems

Sign up for a tour of Israel with Mike Huckabee. Just 4 percent of Israelis see Obama as pro-Israel. The Boston Globe and Harry Reid endorse an interim

Charles Wyly, a billionaire who bankrolled the Bushes and the Doles, died in his Porsche Targa on the outskirts of Aspen Sunday after he was broadsided on Highway 82 by a sport utility vehicle. The crash occurred just before 11 a.m., according to the Colorado State Patrol, which reported that Wyly was attempting to turn left on to the highway from Airport Road when a Ford Freestyle hit him.

Michelle Obama loses popularity. An Iraq general wants U.S. troops to stay until 2020. Jeb Bush says following Paul Ryan’s plan to vanquish federal debt

In a move that spells nothing but bad news for Detroit’s struggling automakers, Toyota announced yesterday that it’s suspended plans to produce its Prius hybrid

Susan Jacoby in The Washington Post points out a largely overlooked exchange with Justice Antonin Scalia in that cross case heard by Supreme Court earlier this

Late last week, it seemed as if the tide of Democratic support was shifting away from Ben Bernanke’s bid to serve a second term atop the Federal Reserve. Just a

Since the Texas Democratic Party sued the Houston tea party group King Street Patriots last fall, accusing the group of engaging in partisan politics without

Half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Bristol Palin and The Situation teach kids about safe sex... ...and Palin’s fans rig the Dancing With

Almost 200 undocumented young people from across the U.S. gathered in the Russell Senate Office building in Washington, D.C., today to argue for the passage of

The former governor of Florida does some helpful tackling for Marco Rubio, spending several minutes with a Newsmax interviewer to make the point that Crist’s

And the winner is ... a cardboard box, followed closely by cow farts and evaporating tiles! The results of Forum for the Future’s green design competition

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — As winter approaches in this prosperous-looking northern Michigan city, it is clear the safety net has ripped. Thousands of households can’t afford to heat their homes and aid agencies predict many people will be forced to choose between eating and staying warm. Yet there are signs Republicans in Washington may be listening.

Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news. In anticipation of President Obama’s major health care speech next Wednesday, pundits and officials