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Here’s another reason to doubt the blizzard of polls that dominate political talk. Pew, the respected non-partisan research organization, reports that polls

Adam Kokesh is one of the more intriguing Republican congressional candidates of the 2010 cycle. A 27-year-old libertarian who became a leader of Iraq Veterans

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly came out of the box yesterday with a strong statement. The State Department takes the allegations of impropriety on the

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a final research plan for its ongoing and congressionally mandated study of the controversial but common oil and gas drilling procedure known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” A holding pond for fracking fluids in Texas

In a steady rain, conservatives blasted President Obama’s policies.

Just 41 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of health care. But that number might go up with a better information campaign. A GOP Rep in Iowa

Kudos to Stars and Stripes. Its dogged reporting has now ended a contract that the Rendon Group, a CIA-tied communications firm, had with the Pentagon to

The Koch Industries logo (Pic via suraen.files.wordpress.com) In an op-ed published in today’s Florida Times-Union , St. Johns Riverkeeper Neil Armingeon writes that Floridians “deserve answers” about a nearly four-mile pipeline that would carry waste from a Palatka paper mill owned by Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific into the St.

On this last day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama is urging voters to relive some humiliating history. Speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Obama will remind

The Project on Government Oversight, which blew the story of State Department contractor-gone-wild ArmorGroup wide open last week, put out this statement about

Haaretz reports on comments the undersecretary of defense for policy, Michele Flournoy, made in Singapore about Iran: The U.S. has ruled out a military strike

If Donald Trump and his nascent presidential campaign didn’t have enough to worry about , what with a certain birth certificate being produced and a certain terrorist being brought low, now he has Colorado’s own Tom Tancredo to tangle with. Not only is Trump soft on immigration, but he’s a flip-flopping fool to boot, to hear Tancredo tell it: But even Barack Obama says he favors border security, and Trump has not given any details like whether he supports a border fence

On March 17, Connie Hair of Human Events shared an unsourced rumor with her readers: Most interesting rumor from the Hill yesterday: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)

The New York Times’ front-page story Sunday reporting the unanimous agreement among Justice Department lawyers that the “harsh” interrogation techniques

Via Politico’s Jonathan Martin Sen. John McCain has not taken questions from his traveling press corps since Aug. 13 in Michigan, and the reporters on his

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell assured reporters yesterday, I see nothing to indicate that that date -- that is, the date to close the Guantanamo Bay

Notwithstanding Rep. Louise Slaughter’s (D-N.Y.) impassioned plea, the House this afternoon passed that amendment to alter the Freedom of Information Act and

Buried within the guts of a very good New York Times story about problems with the Afghan security forces is word of this effort at rooting out police

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- This delightful exchange between Sen. John McCain and a reporter took place aboard the Straight Talk Express bus during the trip from

The Republican boycott persisted, but the Democratic side of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sent its landmark climate bill to the full Senate

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty announced on Wednesday that he would not sign a controversial marriage pledge by Iowa’s The Family Leader. Pawlenty said, “I prefer to choose my own words,” in response to the pledge which has come under fire for references to slavery , its opposition to same-sex marriage, a ban on pornography and an insinuation that being gay or lesbian is a choice . Fellow presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have signed on while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have criticized the pledge.

Asked if Florida should pass an immigration-enforcement law like Georgia’s recently approved H.B. 87, Gov. Rick Scott says the federal government needs to do its job: Secure the border, implement a national immigration policy and create a work visa program that actually works.