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During an interview on MSNBC this morning, GOP strategist Mike Murphy -- who helmed Sen. John McCain’s 2000 primary bid -- said the McCain campaign was smoking

Democratic leaders have been busy patting themselves on the back this morning following the tentative deal struck last night between liberal and conservative

Though Personhood USA has a reach into every state –- and has collected almost 1 million signatures supporting personhood legislation throughout the country

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy teamed up with other House Republicans on Thursday on the front steps of the Supreme

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who has said he wants to take over as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has consistently denied the broad

Republicans in the Senate are trying to hold the Defense appropriations bill hostage to their efforts to kill the health care bill. A filibuster has already

Former Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller will resign from the legislature to take the head position at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.

Iran’s Green Movement and its allies are concerned that crippling sanctions against the regime would harm Iranian citizens and discredit the opposition.

Senator-elect Marco Rubio (R) will head to Israel on Sunday, reports Israeli news site Ynetnews: With victory in the congressional elections less than a day

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is the latest GOP candidate to come under fire for a campaign ad against illegal immigration. The ad features men and women climbing

And because it’s almost 6 p.m. on a Friday, here comes word that the ACLU is taking its case for declassifying hundreds of photographs documenting the torture

The Interior Department did not appropriately respond to an inspector general report that found former Bureau of Land Management Farmington, N.M., District

Could be. Late Wednesday, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed a motion to proceed to legislation extending unemployment benefits. But the majority leader was

MSNBC reports that the Illinois House of Representatives has just voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) for alleged corruption and abuse of power.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s campaign appears to be readying to run ads at Iowa’s leading network TV station, according to filings at KCCI-TV in Des Moines.

Next year, for the second year in a row, America’s seniors won’t be getting any bigger checks from Social Security. Last week, the Social Security

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) ends things after one round of questions without objection. It’s critical to get you in place before the Easter congressional

Yesterday a bunch of Mideast peace experts in Washington expressed confusion over what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas really wants out of this

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said goodbye to her constituents Sunday afternoon and handed off the baton to Lieutenant Gov. Sean Parnell. Explaining her

Under fire from Gulf Coast lawmakers and many in the oil industry, the Interior Department wants you to know that not all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has