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While we’re all duly praising Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for calling a hearing next Wednesday on the torture memos, I’m still puzzled by one thing: why

Peter Schiff, the libertarian economist and investor who’s launched a dark-horse bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.),

State Department officials have been assuring reporters for the last week that by January, more than 1,000 diplomats, development workers and other U.S.

If President Obama is drafting an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, and he has already filed a motion to halt military commission trials, does that make

Focus on the Family news outlet CitizenLink on Monday posted a dire summary of a recent court ruling that rejected an attempt to protect the identities of donors to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign.

Rep. Bart Gordon becomes the fourth Democratic member of Congress in a month -- the second Blue Dog from Tennessee -- to announce his retirement in 2010. Like

Source: Zroberts, Flickr Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition working to convince Minnesotans to vote for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, has hit the media saying that their group are “underdogs” in the marriage amendment battle and that they will be greatly outspent. But according to public records, members of the pro-amendment coalition, including the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference, have greatly outspent LGBT groups in the five years of lobbying for the amendment. Minnesota for Marriage claims fundraising disadvantage Each member of the coalition supporting the amendment has claimed underdog status in recent months.

This weekend, the Florida Family Policy Council holds its annual policy awards dinner featuring GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. The group will also feature a list of “special guest participants,” which includes many of the Florida legislators who played a big role in curbing access to abortion in the state this past session

<p>As the Clinton-Obama duel grinds on, Democratic eyes are turning to those previously underappreciated people known as

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based organization responsible for much of the non-partisan data analysis on immigration

For those who’ve been wondering whether Congress can really just vent its anger at those $165 million in AIG bonuses by levying a 90 percent tax on the bonuses

On Tuesday I reported that an Arizona judge had ordered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop pre-charging female prisoners for the transportation and

The New York Times has picked up on the Bagram detainee story I wrote about two weeks ago, ratcheting up the pressure on the Obama administration to start

A bit of bad economic news: This morning, the Conference Board announced that consumer confidence, a key indicator of the consumer spending that drives about 60

The African-American singer who rode the Tea Party Express and songs like American Tea Party Anthem to a strange sort of fame has spoken out on Kanye West’s

A happy tax day to all readers. Yesterday, I took a look at the conservative talking point that only 47 percent of Americans pay income taxes. Today, Keith

It continues with an op-ed in The Washington Post on Why I commuted Maurice Clemmons’s sentence. On this issue, the problem conservatives have with Huckabee,

President Obama, in an interview with NBC News, about the timing of his Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy decision: I think it is entirely possible that we

High gas prices are spurring support for offshore drilling, which experts say won’t alleviate the pain at the pump.

The American Cause, the Pat and Bay Buchanan-run coalition that employs Marcus Epstein, is holding a national conference in Virginia this weekend on the theme

The Washington Post has a great story today that raises questions about the rosy assumptions included in an Obama administration report on oil released into the

In the end, every Democrat* and eight Republicans voted for cloture on Harold Koh’s nomination for legal adviser to the State Department. The Republicans: Lamar