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WATERLOO — Harsh words uttered in Waterloo during former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich ‘s initial visit to Black Hawk County as a 2012 GOP candidate for president were reserved for the Democratic National Committee and President Barack Obama. Gingrich met with former Black Hawk County GOP Chairman Russ Knoll following a public speech before about 100 Iowans in Waterloo

Responding to a Florida Independent report on Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s upcoming fundraiser for an anti-abortion group that likens Planned Parenthood’s work to genocide, U.S.

Hours before The Associated Press ran its piece yesterday on the protester in Hagerstown, Md., calling for the death of President Obama, Michelle and her two

CEDAR RAPIDS — There was a lot to take in. On the far end of the table David Nelson, a junior at Wartburg College, described how the cost of a college education has left many students wondering if the investment is actually worth it.

Here we go again. Last night, Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Senate majority leader and the head of the Senate Finance Committee,

Apropos of my query why Peter Orszag, the chief of the White House Office of Management and Budget, wasn’t in yesterday’s all-hands Afghanistan strategy

Politicians should be charging lobbyists more for favorable legislation. Swine flu’s pretty bad, but at least it’s not another Senate page

Benefits stopped coming to LuAnn Greer two weeks ago. She’s cut her expenses to the bare minimum, but doesn’t know when she’ll see another unemployment check.

The news that President-elect Barack Obama may pick his national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, for secretary of commerce raises a couple of

Rep. Justin Amash held a townhall meeting sponsored by a Tea Party group on Saturday sponsored by a Tea Party group, but a group of senior citizens and two reporters — including this one — were denied entry to the event

William Jacobson, a professor/blogger who’d been highly critical of the push for a poll in Massachusetts, embraces the new Rasmussen poll that shows Republican

Retired Adm. Dennis Blair is up before the Senate intelligence committee for his confirmation as director of national intelligence, the head of the 16-agency

Counties across Colorado are gearing up for the next major oil and gas boom, scrambling to draft local regulations for everything from visual impacts to physical setbacks of drilling equipment. But state officials are increasingly flexing their regulatory muscles, and industry representatives fear more local regs will slow the next boom before it’s in full swing

State Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, says the Legislature will yet again reject home visiting grants from the federal government because the money is still allocated from the Affordable Care Act

A women’s health clinic in Pensacola, Fla., closed its doors recently after failing to pay its mortgage.

Later this month, officials with Western Governors University will announce new details about the nonprofit online college’s Texas chapter, a sub-university

Few people focus more on the signature weapon of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- the improvised explosive device, or IED -- than Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, who

By any objective measure, the $138 billion in deficit savings the Democrats’ health reform bill would rack up over the next 10 years (while extending coverage

The decision to allow anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean to give the opening prayer before the Minnesota House on Friday sent shockwaves through the Legislature, and the reverberations from that decision continued over the weekend. Democrats filed a complaint on Sunday after House Speaker Kurt Zellers moved to strike Dean’s name from the official record.

I’m barely watching the speech and he already seems like he’s president. And like he’s destined to be president. Challenging Germany to deepen our commitments

Gov. Rick Snyder has asked the state Supreme Court to rule directly on the constitutionality of the Emergency Manager law, which is being challenged in Ingham Circuit Court