Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is speaking to the Iowa GOP on Saturday. (CNN) – It may be two years and two months until the next Iowa caucuses, but if you're considering a run for the 2012...  Comment

A day after it was announced that the U.S. unemployment rate hit the double digit mark, a report was released which claims that nearly half of the members of Congress are millionaires, seriously...  Comment

There's still a chance that tonight's House vote on a health care reform bill may not happen -- or that even if it does, it may not with a victory for Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership....  Comment

In the wake of New York's tumultuous 23rd district special election, a political neologism has arisen: "Scozzafavaed." It started popping up on blogs this week after Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was forced out of the race by low polling numbers...  Comment

The president paused for a photo after meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and other House Democrats on Capitol Hill Saturday....  1 Comment

One of the more sophisticated arguments against health-care reform is that for all the sharp policies and elegant initiatives contained in the bill, none of it will work because Congress will vote to roll back the cost savings. The evidence comes from Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which Congress passed in 1997 but has refused to implement.  Comment

Now now, liberals, you can no longer smugly declare in political arguments, “the Republicans don’t even have a health care plan,” because they do! John Boehner released the GOP alternative plan a few days ago, and the CBO scored it,...  Comment

The White House is strongly denying a story claiming that White House officials privately threatened to retaliate against a Democratic strategist for appearing on Fox News — a claim generating a big stir on the right as the latest example of the White House’s victimization of the network.  1 Comment

Could there be a more accurate description of the Barack Obama-Gordon Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? Now we have...  Comment

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will not seek reelection, adding a new element of uncertainty to the Middle East peace process. “I have told my brethren in the P.L.O. that I have no desire to run in the forthcoming election,...  1 Comment

U.N. inspectors have found “nothing to be worried about” in their first report after visiting a previously secret uranium-enrichment site south of Tehran. The clean assessment, which described the site as a “hole in a mountain,̶...  Comment

Reports are out that Mahmoud Abbas is telling people he won’t run for re-election as head of the Palestinian Authority: “The aides said Abbas received calls earlier today from Israel’s president and defense minister...  Comment

There is very little need to tell anyone what happened at Fort Hood yesterday. A Major who specialized in treating soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder went on a shooting rampage killing 13 and wounding 30 more. This is a tragedy in many ways, for the families of the dead...  Comment

Mossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel. The information extracted was used to plan a bombing raid at a suspected nuclear reactor facility in Syria, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.  Comment

Before he allegedly killed a dozen and wounded 31 more at Ft. Hood, Maj. Nidal Hasan may have gone online to praise suicide bombers. “If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory,”  Comment

Last week, former Marine captain and State Department employee Matthew Hoh made headlines when he went public with his resignation from the administration over his opposition to the continuation of the war in Afghanistan. In a four-page letter he sen...  1 Comment

It’s not so much that Jon Stewart is lampooning Glenn Beck for the heck of it that makes this clip from Thursday night’s “Daily Show” so inspired, it’s that he practically out-Glenn-Becks Glenn...  Comment

One of the most disturbing images from yesterday’s Tea Party rally against health care reform on Capitol Hill was a protester’s gruesome sign showing a pile of dead Holocaust victims. The banner —...  1 Comment

By Friday evening, it wasn’t clear whether Saturday’s scheduled vote on the famous health care reform bill would happen on time in the House of Representatives, but Democrats were busy wooing any...  Comment

Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last...  Comment

Can it be? Another Republican leader taking on Rush Limbaugh? Apparently so. And that leader is Virginia’s Eric Cantor, the second-highest-ranking GOP member in the House. But first a...  Comment

The Washington Post ran an op-ed today on health care policy co-written by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas). That, in and of itself, is a little odd -- when I think of conservatives with credibility on health care, Gingrich (a disgraced former Speaker who shut down the government 14 years ago,...  Comment

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the Republican speaker at the Gridiron Club's Winter Dinner on Dec. 5, the club announced Friday. Gridiron Club President Dick Cooper told club members  3 Comments

I’m not so much surprised that Cheney, once again, used a public speaking opportunity to bitch and moan that Eric Holder is nodding briefly (but very ambivalently) toward the requirement to investigate the use of torture.  Comment