Leon Panetta extends military benefits to same-sex couples
As one of his last acts in office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta extended additional military benefits to gay and lesbian couples Monday, saying discrimination based on sexual orientation “has no...
View ArticleSandy Hook teacher to be guest of second lady at State of the Union
Kaitlin Roig, who is credited with helping to save the lives of 15 of her first-grade students by hiding them in a bathroom during the Dec. 14 shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in...
View ArticleNewtown looms over State of the Union
Painful memories of the Newtown, Conn., massacre loomed over President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. A Newtown audience of honored guests sat high in the gallery, looking down on...
View ArticleObama talks tough on climate & proposes ‘drilling for clean energy’ program
An emboldened, second-term President Obama on Tuesday made clear that if lawmakers don’t tackle climate change, he will do an end run around Congress and use his executive powers to curb greenhouse gas...
View ArticleWalker busts a move
There’s a fierce competition for dance floor supremacy among deficit hawks. Enter David Walker, the former U.S. comptroller general, who 18 months ago was weighing a bid for U.S. Senate in his home...
View ArticleThe not-so-scary Sequester
Friday may not be doomsday after all. President Obama said as much in a press conference Friday, when he said the sequester is “not apocalypse” but “just dumb.” He said he could not do a “Jedi...
View ArticleThe NRA, unvarnished
The National Rifle Association has more in common with the White House and Congress than you think. Its switchboard has been overwhelmed since the Dec. 14 massacre at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary...
View ArticleBipartisan gun bill ready in House should Senate act
Rep. Mike Thompson, a gun-owning Vietnam veteran hand-picked by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to forge a bipartisan agreement on gun legislation in the House, unveiled a companion background check...
View ArticleThe Big D is for Dubya: Bush bundlers reprise role for presidential library
There is an afterlife for Bush Pioneers and Rangers, the monikers given to the top bundlers of campaign contributions for George W. Bush. It can be found on 5.2 acres of Dallas real estate on the...
View Article“Fast & Furious” report criticizes ex-U.S. Attorney for leak
The former U.S. attorney in Phoenix who oversaw the controversial ``Fast & Furious’’ gun-trafficking investigation inappropriately leaked a document to Fox News in an apparent effort to denigrate...
View ArticleThose who survived a sex scandal. And those who didn’t
As he launches his run for Mayor of New York, former Rep. Anthony Weiner should have no problem overcoming public loathing. This is America. We are a forgiving nation. For the most part. Should history...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann’s top ‘untruths’
The fact checkers of American politics are probably mourning the impending loss of Minn. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Congress. As the conservative politician announced she will not seek reelection to her...
View ArticleObama: “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That is not what this...
Seeking to reassure Americans after recent revelations about the intelligence community’s surveillance program, President Obama said Friday in San Jose that “Nobody is listening to your telephone...
View ArticleMurphy open to minor concessions on background checks; says ammo limits a...
Consumed by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre for most of his first six months in the Senate, Democrat Chris Murphy on Monday signaled that he would be willing to consider minor concessions...
View ArticleWest Coast senators try to preempt Pebble Mine in Alaska
Senators from Washington, Oregon and California, in a letter to President Obama, are seeking to preempt a huge proposed mining project in Alaska that would be located between two prime salmon...
View ArticleATF Acting Director gets quizzed in confirmation hearing
ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones on Tuesday advanced his bid to be the embattled bureau’s first confirmed director in seven years, telling a Senate panel he was committed to raising the profile of “an...
View ArticleTale of the Tape
A look at how the Constitution and Lone Star states stack up ahead of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s visit to Connecticut to lure businesses to his home turf.
View ArticleShe’s back!!! Fox News rehires Sarah Palin
Ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, dropped by Fox News last winter, has been rehired as a commentary by the conservative Cable TV channel that serves as unofficial broadcast arm of the Republican Party. Over...
View ArticleCEO Perry: not-so-hostile takeover
Rick Perry’s surrogates deny that politics are behind the Texas governor’s courtship of Connecticut businesses, most notably members of the firearms industry. Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Perry,...
View ArticleSupreme Court sidesteps affirmative action decision in Texas ruling, tells...
In a compromise decision that sidesteps the hot-button political issue of affirmative action in American education, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that a federal appeals court was wrong to dismiss...
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