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We wrote here recently about the oddity of congressional Republicans blasting the thought of creating a public plan while at the same time lauding the virtues

In case you were wondering, as I was, what exactly President-elect Barack Obama intends to talk about during the press conference the transition team scheduled

Officials released new figures yesterday detailing just how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill -- about twelve times more than

Just as it did with the Senate’s defense authorization bill, the White House released a statement warning the House Appropriations Committee against placing any

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) has apparently pulled out of today’s conference on Islamic lawfare. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is declaring

Cheney drew big applause predicting that Obama would be a one-term president. And when he headed to a radio interview, the Draft Cheney 2012 stickers were snapped up.

The five big unions that represent the majority of Michigan’s 50,000 state workers will join forces to bargain with Gov.

The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012. Liz Mathis , 43, won a clear victory in a special election Tuesday by earning 13,184 votes or 55.8 percent support, according to the Linn County Auditor’s Office.

During the course of the heath reform debate raging on Capitol Hill, some supporters of the public option have conceded that the very nomenclature adopted to

As I reported yesterday, electric vehicles advocates are confident they’ll get a vote on their proposal proposal to incentivize the vehicles in 2011. Well, it

At the National Review, Reihan Salam, all-around smartypants, voices the conservative response to my post proposing that Congress should create more tax

The first polling on the potential candidates for Delaware’s 2010 U.S. Senate race showed Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) winning easily. Public Policy Polling had

Why are lawmakers pushing an immigration-enforcement measure that may draw a constitutional challenge, over the objections of business groups, immigrants and their advocates? One reason is that voters appear to support it, as a new poll by Suffolk University shows.

Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, whose appearance at the Wilton Manors Business Association’s Aug

Two 14-year old girls committed suicide last week in Marshall, Minn., and the evidence suggests they’d been bullied. Relatives of Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz told Meredith Viera of the TODAY Show that the girls may have been more than just friends

Following up on Dave’s post about the GOP push to keep Guantanamo detainees out of Kalamazoo schoolyards, here’s Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Fox News

Immigration and Customs Enforcement data received through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that Secure Communities , a federal immigration enforcement program, detains and deports people who are not criminals. In a press release issued last week, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network indicates that: “Nationally, 1 in 4 people deported under S-Comm haven’t been convicted of any crime. That ratio jumps to over 50% in Palm Beach, in Miami, and in multiple examples across the country” xplained Bridget Kessler of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.