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Yesterday evening, Senate Republicans, joined by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), voted against ending debate on the jobs bill, also known

I’ve noted before that conservatives work hard to distance themselves from any threats of fringe, anti-government violence. The case of John Patrick Bedell, the

On Saturday morning, pro-abortion rights activists stood outside the Hyatt Regency in downtown Houston to protest a fundraiser for anti-abortion-rights media

As the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) works to catch up on a backlog of old spill enforcement cases dating back several years, the method by which the state regulatory agency publicizes any fines that are levied against operators has become a topic of conversation for conservation groups tracking the industry. An informal survey of environmental watchdog groups conducted by the Colorado Independent found that opinions vary on the degree of transparency on spill enforcement cases provided by Colorado regulators. The Garden Gulch spill icefall.

Court records, according to a news report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , indicate that a lien has been filed against former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum for roughly $500 in delinquent property taxes on his Penn Hills home

Not being on Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s trip to the Middle East this week, I couldn’t ask him whether this is related to the expected request from Gen.

During a March 2009 visit to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave an interview to

Leading up to yesterday’s defense authorization bill vote, it seemed unlikely that Republicans would allow the bill to go forward with the DREAM Act attached.

I’m still at the Center for a New American Security conference, listening to the North Korea panel, but apropros of this morning’s discussions about Afghanistan

The federal poverty rate in the United States is expected to be 15 percent when 2009 census data are unveiled later this year, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. But

Could an ex-football coach, a former Reagan official or a farmer/rancher have what it takes?

If you want to understand what kind of outcome the White House would consider worth celebrating on Tuesday night in spite of inevitable GOP gains across the

As American and United Nations forces today began a concerted military effort to neutralize Muammar el-Qaddafi and protect Libyan citizens, U.S. Senator from Colorado Mark Udall issued a statement in support of American military action in Libya.

It seems that every time President Obama gives a major speech -- up to and including his announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan -- pundits and observers

A week after Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sent a letter to the GPS company OnStar asking that the company not track or sell customer location data, OnStar has decided to reverse course. “While I’m pleased that OnStar reversed its policy, I still have questions about how that company and others are treating consumers’ location information,” Franken said in a statement Tuesday.

A recently publicized report that touts the construction jobs associated with an increased use of natural gas for electricity fails to consider the ecological downsides of fracking, state environmental groups say. Yesterday Interlochen Public Radio reported on Michigan State University Professor Bill Knudson’s finding that switching from coal to natural gas could produce a boom in construction jobs

Advocates and economists say any support for such a program reflects how some lessons of the housing crisis were not learned.

Nice catch by Todd Heywood of The Michigan Messenger: U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter , has introduced legislation to create a tax deduction for pet owners’