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The Congressional deficit reduction “supercommittee” that has been charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving could save billions by eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for oil and gas companies, which advocacy groups from across the ideological spectrum support, but energy companies are battling to keep their good deals. In an online campaign launched last week, Taxpayers for Common Sense urged voters to lobby supercommittee members against giving subsidies to energy companies

Joseph Farah, who sparred over the birther conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column -- a promo for

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will hold two town hall meetings Tuesday in eastern Iowa and four more the following week in central and

Despite Republican accusations that Obama does not want to secure the border, stronger enforcement isn’t off the table for Democrats. Yesterday’s ruling

Records released this week from the California state attorney general’s office show that many charities are awful at collecting the money for-profit fundraisers

Amid news that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic performs therapy aimed at “curing” gays and lesbians of homosexuality, the nation’s largest “ex-gay” organization, Exodus International, announced it will hold its annual conference, “Exodus Freedom,” in St. Paul next year.

I’ve been doing my best today to ignore the McCain campaign’s current non-issue du jour -- the release of a video showing Sen. Barack Obama’s attendance at a

A bipartisan group of more than 120 judges, prosecutors, diplomats, former members of Congress and high-level military and government officials yesterday

Here’s one thing that bears mentioning now that it appears Leon Panetta is President-elect Barack Obama’s to head the CIA. Given the worries about whether John

Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) are still fine-tuning the details of a compromise on oil spill liability they hope will be incorporated

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) seemed pretty animated on Monday afternoon when he spoke to a bunch of us reporters after receiving an intelligence briefing on would-be

Last Thursday, nine protesters were arrested for refusing to leave the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Today, six more were hauled away, Roll Call

Veteran analyst Meredith Whitney is making waves, via Fortune, with a report arguing that local-government budget gaps are the next big foreboding cloud on the

Charitable giving is a time-honored strategy for turning money into influence. If you don’t want to give money to a politician’s PAC, try making a contribution

Julian Sanchez reads through the annual federal criminal wiretapping report so I don’t have to. On the surface it appears that federal wiretapping has declined

McCain’s presidential crusade perseveres even as Act of God isolates his pick for vice president.

For years, Republicans have discussed seriously targeting Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.). Tonight, after nearly three decades of of service in Congress, a

A new report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation finds that the individual and small group health insurance market in Florida is “highly concentrated,” which could present problems as the state starts to create a health insurance exchange program or marketplace. According to a 2010 report (.pdf), individuals who shopped for health care insurance that year faced a market in which four insurers had more than 5 percent of the state’s market share.

The former vice president has an interesting standard for what constitutes certainty. Somehow in his hands a CIA inspector general’s report that says repeatedly

I have already seen a few emails and advisories going around, blaring that Democrats are planning massive tax hikes for Jan. 1! The Chamber of Commerce, for

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell just put out the following statement about Bush’s updated executive order governing the intelligence

The unintended consequences of taxing tobacco to fund SCHIP could mean that SCHIP-eligible kids need the care worse than before.