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The controversial Austrian School economist, who won Internet fame for a video of his many predictions of a housing bubble burst, is strongly considering a

President Obama told reporters today that two relief wells being drilled to permanently stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo well are

A Senate aide says the renewable energy standard a bipartisan group of senators will unveil tomorrow will use the target in Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) energy

Appearing on CNBC yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) decried the Democrats’ plans to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans by mandat that people have

Stepping off my usual beat for a moment -- Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic fundraiser who has faltered in his run for governor of Virginia, is out with a final

Anthony Cordesman, a highly respected defense analyst and adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s review of Afghanistan strategy, writes an op-ed that has an

Now that the government has nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it should step in and modify the mortgage loans of troubled borrowers on a massive scale,

According to a press release from Personhood USA issued today, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have appealed to the state Supreme Court in their challenge to Mississippi’s controversial Personhood Amendment. # Personhood USA is calling this decision “conspicuous” because both the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have not sought legal action against the numerous “fetal pain” bills making their way through state legislatures

The former Speaker of the House caught a break between Fox News Sunday interviews to travel to China with his wife Callista. The ensuing photo essay is a

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has upheld the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include birth control in a list of preventative services to be covered without co-payments through the Affordable Care Act

The federal government changed a federal regulation (PDF) originally implemented in December 2008 to allow health workers to refuse to provide care in cases

Conservative activists and Republican politicians have, thus far in the Obama presidency, largely escaped the negative attention generated by the movement’s fringes.

I’ve written in the past about the evolution of the anti-jihadist blogosphere and intelligentsia. A few years ago, arguments arose between activists and

The Senate this afternoon hopped the procedural hurdle to end debate on a $150 billion package that would renew a number of expiring tax breaks and extend

Ask and you shall receive. In response to Meg Whitman’s ad that features Bill Clinton accusing Jerry Brown of inaccurately stating his tax record (and my blog

Tuesday is election day, an opportunity for every citizen to make his or her voice heard.

A former minister in the reformist government of Mohammed Khatami just posted on Mir Hossein Moussavi’s Website -- which I suppose is unblocked for the moment

An interesting tidbit from this weekend’s New York Times article on lawyers who attempt to specialize on Supreme Court cases: Critics of such specialists argue

Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie announced yesterday that he and four state judges will oversee the recount of votes in the U.S. Senate

Confirming what many have been saying for years, a new survey finds that teenagers who pledge to forgo sexual activity until marriage were just as likely to