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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling that the requirement in the federal health care reform law that individuals buy health insurance or face penalties is unconstitutional. It also upheld the lower court’s rejection of an argument by Florida and 25 other states that the law’s expansion of Medicaid is “coercive” to the states. # Today’s ruling holds that the rest of the law can be allowed to stand; the lower court held that the mandate was so integral that the rest of the law should be struck down.

Easily the most curious aspect of the AIG bonus scandal that captivated the country last March was that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who’d proposed to stop

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has put a provision into the next year’s defense authorization -- which

The debate over what caused the mortgage mess and how best to fix it is now taking a sharp turn, as new problems surrounding liar’s loans and payment-option

Here’s a statement the White House released from Phil Mudd, a highly respected former CIA analyst, FBI national-security chief and most recently the

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday signed a bill that makes abortions “based on the sex or race of the fetus” a felony in the state of Arizona

Abu Aardvark frets that the attention paid to shoe-thrower Muntader al-Zaidi will distract from Human Rights Watch’s brand new report about the kangaroo state

Jonathan Martin has the first look at an email going out to Family Research Council supporters in which Tony Perkins tells conservatives to close their wallets

The overblown 100 Days of the Obama Presidency stories will, for the most part, be terrible. But some special honor must be paid to the dippy 100 Mistakes

Well, it didn’t take long for House Republicans to recognize that having Henry Waxman atop the House Energy and Commerce Committee is a greater threat to the

Hannah Allam reports from Baghdad for McClatchy: Iraq’s most prominent clerics have ruled that using a water pump on one’s own pipes is akin to stealing

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – For those, like myself, who’ve never before been to Afghanistan, the sprawling Bagram Air Field is known for two things:

Amicus briefs seem to be a good way for Republican gubernatorial candidates to set themselves apart from the pack. After Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox

Senior officials endorse the diagnosis that stabilization and reconstruction missions suffer from an ad hoc planning and implementation structure, but reject the idea of a new office.

The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team (JIT), comprised of representatives from the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation

I spoke to Kathryn A. Serkes of the Doctor Patient Medical Association at this morning’s rally against the health care bill, after Serkes had addressed the

At the bottom of Glenn Kessler’s piece in The Washington Post on President Obama’s Iran strategy is this telling quote: Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights

An Alabama-based tea party group will rally in Hoover, Ala., Tuesday evening in support of H.B. 56, the state’s new immigration enforcement law. The

Former Minnesota Gov.