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The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes

Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) for U.S. Senate in Nevada, is in some hot water for remarks she made to a

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is launching a new political action committee, Country First, replacing the storied Straight Talk America PAC that was folded into

It has been a quiet week on the financial regulatory reform front, but that does not mean the deal-making has stopped. With the House and Senate out of session

Carol J. Williams profiles John Yoo, who provides some of the most deliciously boastful quotes this side of a James Bond movie. He’s done, he thinks, with the

Great catch by North Carolina’s Progressive Pulse, which find Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), conscious of possible party of no attacks, waffling on whether a

Also addressed during President-elect Barack Obama’s juicy press conference about the Blagojevich scandal was the presser’s stated subject, health

Minnesota’s Episcopalians voted this weekend to oppose a ballot question that would change the Minnesota Constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples.

My fascination with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is well-documented and not likely to stop anytime soon. As President Obama and Russian

Laura Rozen reports that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn’t think the new Iran-Turkey uranium enrichment deal will derail the U.S.’s efforts at

Is the sky falling? Are pigs flying? Apparently Wall Street executives have become sensitive to the fact that while people are losing their jobs and their

As we’ve written here before, Medicaid funding is a tricky business, not least of all because program enrollment always jumps in times of economic turmoil, when

This is the second in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents --- Who is Ray Odierno, anyway? It’s hard to say. Odierno, of course, is not

Republicans are taking their efforts to attack Democrats over the proposed mosque near Ground Zero to new lengths. Fired Up! Missouri reports that last night

Speaking to a rally in Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on Ronald Reagan’s famous plea that voters consider whether they were better

Heads get stomped, decoys get rolled out, debate rules get broken and mailers induce vomit. That, and more, all in the span of two and a half days. Marc

The Obama administration released today a series of sustainability plans meant to meet the requirements laid out in a Oct. 2009 executive order that called

As closing arguments ended Wednesday in the Northern California District Court trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the state’s voter-approved

This morning, the National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business lobbying group, announced that its index of optimism among small business

Appearing on Comedy Central Thursday night, former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer made a direct appeal to the people of Iowa while noting his opposition to PAC money made him unable to compete in the upcoming Ames Straw Poll. Roemer has prohibited his campaign from accepting special interest money