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Following recent layoffs of 13 firefighters in Lancaster, Ohio, despite the local union’s concessions, the town’s mayor, Republican David S. Smith, says the

Restaurant owner Jason Bailey said Thursday he supports Denver’s paid sick days initiative and he blasted the Colorado and National Restaurant Associations for fighting the ballot measure. He termed the opposition of the restaurant groups “more of the same,” saying those groups represent large corporations like McDonald’s, more than they do people like him. Bailey owns Parsley, a small mostly vegetarian, mostly organic sandwich, salad, soup and smoothie restaurant at 11th and Cherokee in Denver.

Crossroads GPS, a conservative policy and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., is building on its TV ads criticizing U.S. Rep

The list of business and industry organizations that oppose federally mandated E-Verify, the federal electronic employee verification program, continues to grow. # In a conference call hosted on Tuesday by the National Immigration Forum , the Associated Industries of Florida along with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Georgia’s Fruit and Vegetable Association agreed that mandatory E-Verify as defined in Rep

Michele Bachmann’s campaign and CBS News clashed over the weekend when her campaign was accidentally included on an email chain with CBS News’ John Dickerson explaining that Bachmann would not get as much attention during and after Saturday’s presidential debate. According to CNN, Bachmann’s campaign manager Keith Nahigian walked through the spin room and called Dickerson a “piece of shit.” Prior to Saturday night’s foreign policy debate in South Carolina hosted by CBS and National Journal, Bachmann spokesperson Alice Stewart was accidentally copied on an email about a post debate webshow hosted by CBS. The email said that Bachmann would not receive the same amount of attention that the frontrunners would due to her low polling numbers.

The McCain campaign today brought out the big guns to set the record straight about Sen. John McCain’s ties to Charles Keating, a central figure in the

President Obama announced this morning that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It’s a small step compared to the nationwide

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who’s about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, doesn’t appear to be

Via Ben Smith, I see that the America Family Association’s Bryan Fischer went nuclear over CPAC’s inclusion of GOProud and included some surprisingly hard

A three-year-old state-funded website in Massachusetts that provides youth-tailored information on sex and reproductive health has fueled recent outrage among

The on again, off again recall election against Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) is heating up now that the courts have said the recall must proceed

As expected, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed all budget bills Tuesday that were submitted by the Republicans. His message to the GOP: “Compromise.” Dayton also hit Republicans for including divisive social issues in their budgets.

The release of Scott McClellan’s book has re-ignited calls by Congressional investigators to get to the bottom of who leaked the identity of covert CIA agent

Ed Morrissey and John McCormack, two smart conservatives, have two dishonest responses to this morning’s discovery that a popular Obama=Hitler poster was

Why’s the U.S. reinforcing Kabul? Possibly because the Taliban has expanded and entrenched its hold on Afghanistan in most of the country. Yochi Dreazen

In my just-published piece on the Obama administration and Congress’s plans for military commissions, I quote a former military-commission prosecutor, U.S. Army

Saginaw County Judge Leopold Borello said Thursday that he is close to issuing an opinion on whether property owners in the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawassee floodplain may sue Dow Chemical as a group. Henry v

Religious conservatives reacted sharply to a vote Friday night in the New York Senate to legalize gay marriage. The National Organization for Marriage pledged

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) just gave Eric Holder the chance to preempt the minority questions on Marc Rich, and I think this quote sums up what his talking

Every week Americans find out they are more and more screwed by this economy.