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Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida today, scrambling clean-up crews who

The EPA seal (Pic via sentryjournal.com) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it had issued Consent Agreements and Final Orders against 25 entities throughout the Southeast for violations of the Clean Water Act.

As part of a defense spending bill passed yesterday in the House, Democratic leaders included funding to prevent a 21-percent cut in Medicare payments to

The threat from moderate House Democrats to derail health reform legislation over abortion funding concerns is a problem that can be worked out this week, House

Who knew, eight years ago, that compassionate conservatism would include the partial nationalization of the banking industry? It happened today, and some

Former Sen. Norm Coleman hosted a fundraiser for Rep. Chip Cravaack on Friday afternoon at the Minneapolis Club, part of Coleman’s increasing support for Cravaack who is seen as vulnerable

Sen. Barack Obama has one of the most sophisticated organizations in political history, as many observers have noted, and his aides’ attention to detail is

Student loan defaults are on the rise, according to a new federal tracking system. For students who began repaying their loans in 2008, 13.8 percent have since defaulted. For profit institutions had 25 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years, and public four-year colleges had 10.8 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years.

When he goes on Fox News! Yes, the former vice president is going to sit down with Chris Wallace on Sunday to discuss the CIA’s torture disclosures and the

It wasn’t long ago that Afghan president Hamid Karzai stunned observers by telling U.N. officials that it was nearing time to set a timeline for withdrawing

State Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview, this week introduced an anti-abortion bill that aims to further restrict third-trimester abortions and to place new restrictions on women’s health clinics

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday and reiterated his opposition to a settlement freeze.

For the past week, The Road to Serfdom has been the number-one selling book on Amazon.com. Authored by the Austrian émigré economist F.A. Hayek and first

Sen. Mary Landrieu (La.), the moderate Democrat who’s been a loud critic of her party’s plan to create a public insurance option, is warming to the proposal,

The states’ collective budget shortfall is estimated to be $30 billion and rising. Required by law to balance their books, states are cutting social services even as demand is rising. Can Congress come to the rescue?

Three members of he Anoka-Hennepin School Board are up for reelection in 2011, and challengers have filed to run in two of those seats.

Lindsay Graham drives me crackers. Despite being a consistent and often brave enemy of torture, he can also cover up with the best of them. "We’re not

Following up on reports that the nonprofit group, Americans for Job Security, has been avoiding the donor disclosure requirements on its independent

The press conference at the Watergate Hotel opened with a question for the assembled reporters: How many of you have voted already? A majority of the sixty