Breaking News

This didn’t fit into my piece yesterday, but at his parley with the Council on Foreign Relations, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the Pakistani foreign minister, said

The situation with the Pakistanis is deteriorating by the minute. On Sunday they fired warning shots at U.S. helicopters in Pakistani airspace. Yesterday they

The Republican behind the Don’t Vote ads aimed at Latino voters came out with a follow-up video explaining why his original spot wasn’t meant to help the GOP

The conservative reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address is not universally positive, but it’s close. Kathleen Parker, whose conservative but

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- In the past week, Gov. Sarah Palin has ramped up her anti-abortion rhetoric, going so far as to say that Sen. Barack Obama wouldn’t even

Anyone who thinks that the only thing better than one Democratic governor embroiled in a pay-to-play scandal is two Democratic governors embroiled in

We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official -- West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is running in his state’s special Senate election. He announced his

From Friday, but still worth noting, is a rather comprehensive list compiled by the Think Progress blog of all the monetary pledges conservative groups have

During President Obama’s first prime time press conference tonight, he was asked his opinion of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposal to start a comprehensive

New unemployment numbers for July are out today, and they show a slight drop in the jobless rate, to 9.4 percent -- the first decline since April of 2008,

The Miami-based Christian Family Coalition stated in a press release last week that Florida’s legislative session this year was “without a doubt … the very best statewide legislative session in the history of the Coalition.” # Florida’s state legislature passed five bills this year limiting access to abortions in the state, as well as bill’s aimed at making exclusively social conservatives happy .

In my piece about Randall Terry’s Tea Party-driven comeback, I broke the news that Terry’s activists were going to mount congressional campaigns in 2010 for the

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the group behind a federal lawsuit against Perry for his involvement in a controversial Aug. 6 prayer rally, is revving up

At the Heritage Foundation, Manny Miranda floated the theory that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could sink her own nomination by being overly firey and

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) Mother Jones reports that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has received an endorsement from former Rep.

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) office just sent over it’s comparison of the latest version of the stimulus package with the House Republican Economic Recovery Plan.

A Guantanamo detainee’s transfer to the United States for trial is at odds with the president’s call for a new system of indefinite imprisonment.

NASHVILLE -- I’m so proud to be an American! Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin took the stage of the National Tea Party Convention to a thundering

In the confusion that followed Friday’s attacks in Oslo, Norway, some observers in America — including one Florida congressman — were quick to point to preliminary reports, which turned out to be inaccurate, that the perpetrator was an Islamic terrorist.

The Sun-Sentinel reports on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s visit to the Daytona 500, and her response to a reporter’s political question. When asked what a