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Earlier today, environmental reporters were surprised to learn that, in a reversal, the Interior Department had extended its offshore drilling freeze to shallow

Earlier in the month, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) had some questions for the administration about just how it happened that a top AIG lawyer was given

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) made headlines yesterday for blasting the co-op insurance model of health care reform as a slippery slope toward government-run health

I promised myself I wouldn’t, but when I heard Wolf Blitzer of CNN say that the first round of exit polls are out I swiveled around in my chair in

To hasten construction of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, the Bush administration announced last week that it will waive dozens of environmental, public health

The Federal Reserve’s policy committee, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), met today and voted on what course of action they would take with respect to

By the way, if you’re going through the transcripts of the Consumer Advisory Council, you’ll see that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke attends the meetings, which are

Two new and apologetic pieces about Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) make a similar claim. The Weekly Standard’s Matt Continetti, who is writing a book about

Politico gets the early read and the early spin on the House Republicans’ alternative budget plan, focusing on the spin. We don’t know what’s in it, but we know

Speculation has been running rampant among pundits and journalists alike about President Obama’s reported desire to nominate Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) as

Rick Scott won the Republican primary for Florida governor last night, edging out party favorite Bill McCollum. Before the primary, the candidates competed for

Last week, Senate Democratic leaders rolled out a proposal to extend unemployment insurance by 14 weeks -- with an extra six weeks thrown in for those states

The impact of Alabama’s new immigration law, which requires K-12 schools to check the immigration status of their students, could be felt in several states, including Florida. Sunshine State News reports today that “a number of school districts across Florida have been advised to monitor enrollment numbers for Hispanic migrant families relocating from Alabama after a federal judge upheld that state’s new immigration enforcement law.” The online news outlet adds that “Florida’s Education Estimating Conference said so far they haven’t seen any influx in the counties bordering Alabama or in counties such as Osceola, Hardee and Volusia where migrant families may seek agriculture employment,” and that the “Alabama Department of Education stated that on Oct 3, 5 percent of the state’s Hispanic students didn’t show up for school.” Our sister site The American Independent recently reported that civil rights groups and the U.S. Justice Department sued to stop Alabama’s immigration enforcement law, “passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in May, from being enforced, as they did in the case of S.B

In a fairly muted online Q&A with Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio -- questions were along the lines of what can we do to stop this health care

Before there was Glenn Beck, there was John Gibson, a dyspeptic Fox News host who anchored the network’s 5 p.m. block and steadily upped his outrage against