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A three judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and granted standing to a coalition of human rights groups suing the government over the 2008 FISA amendments. You can read the full ruling here

Three days after being released to the public, the new book by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) has made it into the top five on Amazon.com for bestselling

The news that former congressman and President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget director Rob Portman might run for Senate in Ohio is lighting up

Everyone’s favorite radical transnationalist, the Shiite cleric Harold Koh, will have his confirmation hearing to become State Department legal adviser

Piling on to the GOP pushback against requests for the IRS to investigate nonprofit groups like Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove spoke on the Fox News Channel’s Your

This morning, the Labor Department announced that initial weekly jobless claims fell to 454,000. The number of people continuing to receive benefits fell to the

When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced this week that President George W. Bush had nominated the U.S. military’s first woman four-star general, he

The private security contractor diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen.

Happy New Year! It might be a good idea to begin 2009 thinking happy thoughts. Here is my contribution: There are now just 19 days left in the Bush

This poll goes some way toward explaining why, as I report today, ambitious Republican politicians are clambering on board with the idea of lawsuits to repeal

Michael Patrick Leahy caps off Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava’s really bad day Tuesday by talking to Oneida County, N.Y., GOP chairman George Joseph, who

Web Ecoist showcases 20 of the World’s Weirdest Endangered Species today with some fantastic photos of such exotic creatures as the Solenodon (not a

Recently, several anti-abortion rights groups have rallied against recent ordinances in Baltimore and New York that require so-called crisis pregnancy

According to new research from the Economic Policy Institute, about 2.8 million U.S. jobs were “eliminated or displaced” since 2001 because of the growing U.S.-China trade deficit

As Sen.

At a call-in “town hall” meeting tonight, the American Civil Liberties Union reiterated its call for the new Obama administration to close the Guantanamo

ANCHORAGE -- Gov. Sarah Palin is known as a reform candidate around here who bucks the party’s old guard. But according to some great reporting at The Trail, it

While the Obama campaign contends that Republican challenges to voter-registration drives by ACORN and other groups are illegitimate, it consistently has

NASHVILLE -- During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl did a sit-down interview with embattled New York Congressman Anthony Weiner days ago, back when Weiner was still determinedly following the exact wrong script on how to weather a political scandal, lying up and down about how photos of his crotch ended up on the internet, denying the undeniable and preening with faux outrage at Karl and other members of the press for asking questions.

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., on Thursday praised the work of the U.S

Sen. Barack Obama is already helping lower the cost of gasoline, according to a new video from his campaign. Gas Station for Obama, a YouTube clip

In Newsweek’s seven-part series chronicling the juicy, behind-the-scenes moments of the presidential campaign, there was an interesting nugget about Gov. Sarah