Breaking News

The stimulus increased benefits, but lower-than-expected inflation led to lower-than-expected food prices. Now the Senate might reclaim some of the benefits increase, starting in 2014.

The United States ranks ninth out of 31 countries in an international study evaluating immigrant integration policies released this week. # The Migrant Integration Policy Index (aka MIPEX), produced by the British Council and the Migration Policy Group, evaluates seven areas: labor market mobility, family reunion, education, political participation, long-term residence, access to nationality and anti-discrimination measures in all European Union member states plus Norway, Switzerland, Canada and for the first time the U.S. # The Immigration Policy Center , the research and policy arm of the American Immigration Council, served as a U.S partner for the study, and helped answer questions and gather information from various American experts

Below is the Pentagon’s presentation of the long-term budget picture. Why’s it going from Fiscal 2001 to Fiscal 2015? I don’t presume to know for sure. But the

Little evidence backs claims that medical malpractice suits are driving up health care costs.

Public Policy Polling released a survey today on the attitudes of likely Republican primary voters, including their opinions of Obama’s citizenship. The findings are extraordinary, with 51 percent of likely 2012 primary voters saying they believe President Obama was not born in the U.S

The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack has another duplicitous blog post — he did the same thing last week — arguing that because the disturbed woman at Rep.

Responding to a question from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who’s asked frequently when the Justice Department will finally release the repeatedly delayed

NASHVILLE -- Now for sale at the National Tea Party Convention: tea bag jewelry, courtesy of the Tea Party Emporium, a co-sponsor of the event.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has voted no on the cloture motion to start debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill -- meaning the

The PBS star attracted crowds to what appeared on the surface as a way to help black borrowers build wealth, but a lawsuit alleges it was actually just the opposite.

The continued expansion of the so-called Secure Communities program, which sends the fingerprints of suspects booked at local jails to the federal immigration

Naval reformers think the successful rescue of Maersk Alabama captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates may have highlighted structural imbalances in the U.S. Navy’s ability to handle irregular warfare.

The number of civilian experts Afghanistan officials believe are necessary for counterinsurgency efforts looks to exceed what Obama can send.

Last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gave a short talk and Q&A at at the National Press Club about his book Saving Freedom. DeMint told a room of around

Yesterday I debated Pat Buchanan on MSNBC about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be bomber of Northwest Airways Flight 253. Out of nowhere, he started

Conservative blogger Tom Maguire takes issue with my story today, specifically the part about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign checking the

It’s a story that has dropped out of the news since the jobs bill, also known as H.R. 4213 and the extenders’ package, died at the end of June. Since then,

On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry appointed Republican State Board of Education member Barbara Cargill to lead the tumultuous 15-member body. Former SBOE Chair Gail

McClatchy does a good job outlining the omissions, exaggerations and misstatements in former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech at the American Enterprise

Ben Smith has a rose-colored look at a possible Senate run in New York by Mort Zuckerman, the 72-year-old media mogul and pundit who seems interested in Sen.

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an

In the face of the deepening financial crisis and the largest Wall Street swindle in history, President-elect Barack Obama acted swiftly to fill three key

The state’s second largest power provider – Tri-State Generation and Transmission – has an all-of-the-above approach to energy resources, but that doesn’t mean its interest in a coal plant expansion in Kansas is meant to transform the Westminster-based company into a larger regional power wholesaler. “We serve 44 co-ops in four states over 200,000 square miles,” Tri-State spokesman Jim Van Someren said Thursday