Con Game for America
Call it the prepositional proposition. The new improved Contract With America is now the Contract From America. But it will take more political will and determination to govern according...
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Scott Brown on Fence Over Bank Bill
Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who rode opposition the Obama healthcare plan to victory in January's special election to the U.S. Senate, is still uncommitted on the next big...
Congressman’s Son to Take on Rangel
The son also rises-again. New York Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, son of a legendary congressman from Harlem, announced on Monday that he would take on twenty-term incumbent Charles...
McCain Now Bucks ‘Maverick’ Label
A leopard may not be able to change its spots (or "its stripes," as former Vice President Al Gore once said), but John McCain is hoping to prove an...
Elena Kagan & the Worldwide “Battlefield”
Elena Kagan, Solicitor General of the United States and former dean of Harvard Law School, is widely believed to the frontrunner for President Obama's nomination to succeed retiring Justice...
“Surprise Liberal” Stevens Leaving Court
A Republican who became the leader of the liberal wing of the U.S. Supreme Court, 90-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens, has announced he will retire at the end of...
Tensions Rise Over Trade With China
With Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Beijing today and President Obama planning to meet with Chinese Premier Hu Jintao in Washington next week, Members of Congress have been voicing...
Obama Reserves Option to Nuke Iran
It's getting harder and harder these days for a President of the United States to be hawkish enough to please the proponents of perpetual, worldwide military interventions. President Barack...
Obama On Healthcare Repeal: ‘Go for It’
If Republicans want to run on a platform of repealing the health care reform Barack Obama signed into law on Tuesday, the President is encouraging them to "go for...
Stupak Measure Could Delay Healthcare Bill
The Stupak amendment is back and may yet derail or delay passage of healthcare reform legislation that the House of Representatives is expected to vote on tomorrow. Last year,...
Senators Push Biometric ID Card
Two prominent U.S. Senators are promoting national ID cards as a means of mending the nation's "badly broken" immigration system. Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have...
McCain-Feingold and Free Speech
Hillary Clinton will not easily be mistaken for Sir Winston Churchill, but our nation’s Secretary of State borrowed a metaphor from old “Winnie” recently when lecturing on the importance...
Obama Pushes New School Standards
A $14 billion program to improve the education of impoverished students will mean more money for financially strapped state governments — provided the states adopt new academic standards. In...
“Crazy, kooky” Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll
Dick Cheney, Ann Coulter, and Glenn Beck all received enthusiastic applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington that ended over the weekend, but Ron Paul was the...
Biden’s Ashes Cause Quite a Stir
It's an annual ritual for millions of Catholics around the world, but when Vice President Joe Biden appeared in public with ashes on his forehead on Ash Wednesday, some...