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Fed governors and market gurus have been warning about the threat of inflation to the United States economy -- but there remains no sign of prices rising at

Last month, I noted that Rosanna Pulido, the Republican selected to campaign for Rahm Emanuel’s vacant Illinois congressional district, was an outspoken

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has gotten a number of A- and B-list conservative bloggers to co-sign an open letter to the National Republican Senatorial

Vice presidents don’t matter? Think again. More than 30 percent have gone on to hold the higher office.

Politico reports that Republicans are labeling the Fort Hood tragedy an act of terrorism, and Rasmussen Reports is out with a poll backing up that CW: Should

This is getting disgusting. Last year, when General David Petraeus trudged to Capitol Hill to report on the surge’s fortunes, the White House scheduled it on an

A bill in Pennsylvania that would empower the governor to appoint two members to a management board that would have the authority to influence collective

The Chronicle of Higher Education raises a question worth examining, as the credit stays tighter than usual and the economy remains sluggish: Is higher

Indiana’s Democratic senator announces that he won’t seek re-election despite raising $13 million for the contest and leaving his party four days to find a

In Alabama, it’s not enough that the United States has filed suit to stop the nation’s strictest immigration law from going into effect, 16 other nations

Former Reagan administration economic adviser Martin Feldstein today makes the case -- oft-mentioned in conservative circles -- that the Democrats’ proposal to

Andrew Sullivan publishes a stirring communique from distinguished Iranian-Americans about the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the so-called p5+1

Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Merritt Island, said Monday that there probably won’t be any more meetings of the Senate budget panel.

The real risk to the future of General Motors (other than the unpopular vehicles) is that a bankruptcy and reorganization process would not be quick, in what’s

President Obama will nominate Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) as the next secretary of the Army, which will open up another House seat in New York, three short months

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report on job openings and labor turnover -- known as JOLTS. It showed that the number of available

Tancredo’s <a href= "http://iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1689/">out</a>.

Iowa’s jobless rate fell to 6 percent in September from 6.1 percent in August, but the number of working Iowans is down and so is the level of nonfarm employment. The state continues to do significantly better than the nation as a whole, which had an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent in September, said Teresa Wahlert, director of Iowa Workforce Development. Teresa Wahlert “However, we recognize that 100,000 Iowans are still unemployed and the department continually works to connect unemployed workers with current opportunities throughout the state,” she said.

After a one-week reprieve, the Department of Labor reports that new unemployment claims jumped back up above 400,000 again this week, ending at 408,000. That’s 9,000 more than last week, but the four-week average dropped by 3,500 to 402,500

Great Daphne piece, right? For more on private security contractors in Iraq, check out The National in Abu Dhabi, where my friend Nir Rosen recounts his time