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By all accounts, it was quite a show last night in Charleston, W.Va., where Don Blankenship, president of Virginia-based Massey Energy, squared off against

Marc Lacey of the New York Times reports today on the debate over driver’s licenses for foreign nationals in New Mexico.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (Pic by Cooper Levey-Baker) Former presidential contender and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has teamed up with Citizens United to promote “fetal personhood,” a movement sweeping the country in the form of amendments that aim to define as beginning at the moment of conception

It’s a little unclear which might have been a better or worse venue for Sen. John McCain to tout his new energy policy, Santa Barbara--a city still seething

The conservative vanguard at the Republican Study Committee blasted out a statement announcing that Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) had officially taken the helm. No

A small cadre of House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that will force Michigan State University and Wayne State University to forfeit millions of dollars in state aid payments. The move comes as the GOP claims the two universities violated a tuition restraint deal in the most recently enacted budget deal which goes into effect Oct. 1

This shouldn’t go by unnoticed: The former head of Enron’s failed Internet division was just sentenced to 16 months in prison, The Washington Post reports.

A Texas congressman is behind a letter sent to President Barack Obama last month disagreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice’s choice to block the merger

As he turns to focusing on the national stage shortly after leaving Minnesota’s governor’s office, Tim Pawlenty is making his way through numerous high-profile

The Huffington Post has two stories on various politicians and policymakers warming to the idea of breaking up big banks and possibly bringing back parts of

By the slimmest of margins, the Senate last night approved a measure waiving the pay-go rules for legislation extending the filling deadline for unemployment

The ad wars continue to run hot down in Florida’s three-way Senate race, but the lines of attack keep shifting. Florida’s Republican governor Charlie Christ,

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) took a podium before a banking convention this morning with the clear goal of alleviating industry fears over the Democrats’ plans

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) takes another bite at the Afghanistan apple. He says he doesn’t want to compare anything to Vietnam, but he’s worried Afghanistan is

Jon Buice, who confessed to joining in the hate-crime murder of Paul Broussard in Houston in 1991, will be paroled in October after serving less than half of

The most important thing is to understand that before we do a military operation in Afghanistan, we really have got to get the consent of the people who are

New homeowners who used the Obama administration’s tax credits will get special scrutiny from the agency.

A group of Oregon National Guardsmen returning from Iraq recently noticed that that the medical care the Army provided at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington

An example of the effects of Nebraska’s new fetal pain abortion law, which went into effect last October, was publicized in a recent interview Danielle Deaver