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Environmentalists might be applauding the Obama administration’s new restrictions on mountaintop coal mining as the most significant step the government has

Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is among the most forthright of conservative deficit hawks when it comes to straight talk about cutting spending, but in his

Fresh out from the Department of Defense: word of the first units deployed to Afghanistan as part of the extended surge. It’s a whole lot of Marines and the

James Bopp, Jr., the conservative First Amendment lawyer who argued Citizens United and is also representing the National Organization for Marriage in a number

It was a scenario that tapped into Americans’ deepest fears about increased government involvement with health care: President Obama was planning to a create

The University of Florida campus (Pic by Random McRandomhead, via Flickr) New reports indicate that Gov. Rick Scott is in the early stages of forming his policy to change higher education in the state of Florida.

The governor of Nebraska said Monday that he will call a special session of the Nebraska legislature to take up the matter of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would cut through that state and cross over the Ogalala aquifer, which supplies nearly all the fresh water for the state.

Renewable energy advocates and environmentalists praised the announcement, while noting that the renewable energy standard, or RES, is not stringent enough.

Michael Riley got former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) on the phone to ask about the just-revealed assault charges against Marcus Epstein, the executive director

If you did a free association test on political insiders and said Robert Byrd, 90 percent of them would probably respond immediately with coal. The

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona — known for his controversial immigration enforcement measures and his birther conspiracy theories — was heckled Saturday as he spoke at “Choose Liberty,” an event organized by the Eastern Orlando Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity. A Phoenix Fox TV station reported that, ”while delivering remarks — some hecklers tried to steal the spotlight by yelling and moving toward the sheriff.” The Fox affiliate quotes Arpaio as saying: “I’ve been cracking down on illegal immigration for the last three years, which I now have the Justice Department investigating me, ACLU — everybody’s taking shots at me because of my fight against illegal immigration. And I’m going to continue to do it until the problem is resolved.” A 2009 Time magazine article points out that Arpaio “has faced numerous complaints from Amnesty International, the ACLU and other rights groups.

Whenever Bush administration or Sen. John McCain campaign officials open their mouths about Iraq, they portray the country as on a continuous path of

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) A Nevada judge on Monday ruled (.pdf) that his state’s proposed “fetal personhood” measure, which would outlaw abortion by defining life as beginning at the moment of conception, is misleading and confusing to voters. As part of his decision, the judge rewrote the initiative to include language that makes it less vague

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Notwithstanding Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) infamous outburst, President Obama’s big speech Wednesday

In a recent interview with Ocala’s Star-Banner , Republican state Rep. Dennis Baxley touts the Legislature’s successful focus on anti-abortion measures during this year’s legislative session. # Baxley, a former executive director of Florida Right to Life , was among a handful of state legislators who pushed through abortion-related bills during the Legislature’s spring session

Two days after the Government Accountability Office’s one-time audit examining Federal Reserve activities during the economic downturn was published, Sen.

As women’s health clinics across the state shutter and scale back services following massive family planning cuts by the Texas Legislature, abortion rights

A fascinating tidbit from Taylor Branch’s history of the 42nd president’s term in office, The Clinton Tapes, drawn out in this review by Matthew Cooper: Who

Rasmussen Reports finds Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clinging to a two-point lead over a possible challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.). Chris Simcox,

It was bound to happen some day. From Sarah Palin’s Facebook account, her newest epistle: Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the

I keep trying to get confirmation of what former Sen. Bob Graham has been been saying about the CIA keeping erroneous records of what it told Congress in 2002