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A central provision of the health care reform bill will be limited by its short duration and narrow terms of coverage.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Education reformer Diane Ravitch gave a keynote speech Friday at the Save Our Schools and National Call to Action, speaking for one hour on

Code Pink activists went after Obama economic adviser Larry Summers this afternoon, bounding to the conference room stage where Summers was speaking and

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

Wildlife, it turns out, isn’t too savvy about political borders – whether those borders divide countries or states. Deer and elk don’t do maps. Sportsmen and conservation groups pointed that out in different ways this week when they protested a bill that would strip away environmental protections within 100 miles of U.S

Fred Karger , an openly gay Republican who has formed an exploratory committee in hopes of seeking his party’s nomination for president in 2012, has already had “conversations” with the Hawkeye State’s more socially conservative party members, but the discourse is heating up again as state activists aim to exclude Karger from upcoming debates. Karger informed reporter Sean J

The Washington Post provided an interesting look Sunday into the life of an Arizona woman who illegally entered the country a decade ago. The woman is married

Emily’s List has endorsed former West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel to challenge Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, in his upcoming reelection bid

If the Israelis’ announcement of new settlement construction in Jerusalem during Vice President Biden’s Israel trip was insulting, what’s this? The Jerusalem

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 is very, very rare to see Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) agree with President Obama on anything, let alone energy policy. The conservative ranking Republican on

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

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

Pallavi Gogoi at Daily Finance, who watched payday lender regulations die in the Senate, asked payday lenders how they liked the rules under which they are

The 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture says clearly that in 2002, the CIA proposed to the Justice Department the use of eleven enhanced

The Alaska governor’s inability to separate the personal from the professional is one of her chief political flaws, say critics and allies alike. Think troopergate. All the attention that the national campaign has brought her has not changed Palin’s view that household duties and governing are one.

Pic via dbmathews.com Gov. Rick Scott extended (.pdf) “greetings and best wishes to all those observing” World AIDS Day today, while organizations in Florida and the U.S. are calling for action against the problems people living with HIV/AIDS are facing.

Josh Rogin has an explosive story about retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, a former Afghanistan-war commander and darling of the counterinsurgency community, coming

Pic by Ceridwn, via Wikimedia Commons A Catholic priest in St. Petersburg is threatening to cut health insurance benefits from employees as a form of “civil disobedience” to challenge a recent decision by the federal government to include birth control in a list of preventive health care.

Ready or not America, here comes the King Street Patriots. During its True the Vote summit this past weekend, the Houston tea party group unveiled plans to roll

There’s little doubt that Newt Gingrich will be able to take a swing through Iowa before the 2012 caucuses without being under the veil of some national controversy, but it won’t be during his upcoming appearances. Three days ago, The Marietta Daily Journal published an interview with Gingrich that detailed how he was going to overcome the negativity that has surrounded his campaign.

Really! The Republican Policy Committee in the Senate is distributing a two-page fact sheet on the stimulus called Democrats’ Partisan $1.2 Trillion Spending