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Despite the Wall Street collapse -- a crash that required trillions in federal help and has left nearly a fifth of the country underemployed -- the financial services industry has retained remarkable sway on Capitol Hill.

The latest Office of Legal Counsel torture memos released last week have led to calls for further investigation and criminal prosecution of former Bush

When President Obama gave his Muslim speech in Cairo, the Drudge Report headlined it 6,000 words. When former Vice President Cheney responded to the

I watched Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. It was mostly a recap of other recent Palin interviews in which she denied all

Ratcheting up the showdown between the Obama administration and the judiciary that began in March, the Justice Department on Friday insisted to a federal judge

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) has released her language for the derivatives portion of the bill overhauling financial regulation. I’ve gone through the

In order to secure the passage of the Status of Forces Agreement, the Maliki government had to agree to a Sunni-driven demand for a popular referendum on

Earlier today, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced legislation to block the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse emissions from

In a story more baroque than could have been imagined, The New York Times reports that Kyle Dusty Foggo, a senior former CIA official and key figure in the

This week, the final U.S. Army brigade deployed to Baghdad as part of the troop surge returns to the United States. And that’s only appropriate, as the

MARION — Church pastors who do not believe women were called by God to serve in leadership roles turned their pulpit over Sunday morning to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann , a 2012 GOP presidential candidate

More than 600 conservatives attended the second annual Americans for Prosperity weekend conference, bringing activists together and supplying them with tools and talking points.

From The Hartford Courant: U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during

Via Patrick.net, here’s more about how some banks abandoned their foreclosed properties and left innocent neighbors to deal with the blight. And no, this isn’t

Yesterday, it was Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass,), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, blaming mortgage servicers for a failure to modify loans,

Does anybody like the new Senate Finance Committee health care bill? White House searching for a way to strike back against smears. TWI rolls out a

The Baucus bill is the health insurance industry’s favorite. The solar industry is slipping away from the United States. Obama’s approval is below 50

One in five New Mexicans, or about 20.7 of the state’s population, are on food stamps, according to the U.S.

After the jump, a slideshow of photos from the first day of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

For months, liberals have watched the Texas State Board of Education debate standards for new textbooks, with Gov. Rick Perry-appointed member Don McLeroy

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg was on the agenda to appear today before the Senate Agriculture Committee.