John Celock

A former Democratic governor of New York said that President Barack Obama "got away with it" if he was not born in the United States.

On his radio show Wednesday, former Gov. David Paterson (D) was discussing the birther issue with NBC News White House Correspondent Chuck Todd...

Jesse Kelly, a Republican congressional candidate in Arizona who has been critical of the economic stimulus, declared during a 2010 debate that he did not know where such funds ended up. But on Tuesday the Arizona Republic reported that his father's construction business had received stimulus funding through...

The New Jersey primary between Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson) and Rep. Steve Rothman (D-Englewood) in a newly created district has turned bitter as the one-time allies accuse each other of having flawed records and no ties to the district.

It also is taking on shades of the Obama/Clinton 2008...

A Republican U.S. Senate candidate in New York defended her past legal analysis that declared gay marriage could lead to legalizing nuptials with someone's parents or pets by saying she would have liked to marry her severely ill mother.

Wendy Long, one of three Republicans seeking the...

Kansas lawmakers may have worked through the weekend with no nap breaks, but the state remains the only one in the nation without a redistricting plan for Congress or the state legislature, and now must leave the decision to a federal court.

Lawmakers left Topeka Sunday night...

A Democratic congressional candidate in New Jersey promised during a debate Thursday to travel the country fighting Tea Party members of Congress.

PolitickerNJ reports that Newark Councilman Ron Rice said during a debate in Newark that as a congressman he plans to travel the country to fight...

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are criticizing Indiana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock for removing pre-primary material from his website, saying that it is evidence that he is distancing himself from the Tea Party base that helped his primary win.

Politico reported Wednesday that Mourdock had...

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, a current Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin, has accepted the board chairmanship at a Florida pharmaceutical company.

TherapeuticsMD, a Boca Raton-based drug company and parent company of vitaMedMD, announced Thompson's appointment to the board chairmanship last...

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' handpicked successor declined during a Wednesday evening debate to reveal if he intends to vote for President Barack Obama in the November election.

Democrat Ron Barber, who is competing against Republican Jesse Kelly in a June 12 special election for the chance to complete the...

It is dueling campaign styles as the first ads hit the North Dakota governor's race, with the Republican incumbent touting his record and the Democratic challenger launching his ad as he critically noted a visit by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in support of his opponent.

State Senate Minority Leader Ryan...

Ohio Democrats are pouncing on state Treasurer Josh Mandel (R) for apparently forgetting $65 billion in state pension funds under his supervision, calling it an example of his management of his office while running for U.S. Senate.

Democrats are pointing to a question a Dayton Daily News reporter...

YouTube is the new front in the 162-year-old war between Kansas and Missouri, after a Missouri lawmaker who opposes allowing a Kansas logo on Show Me State license plates was compared to movie character Napoleon Dynamite.

Andy Greenhaw, a 2009 University of Kansas alum, created a video spoofing...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's work as U.S. attorney might have made him a frontrunner for his current job, but he almost lost his prosecutorial post in a purge of federal attorneys in 2005, a new book reports.

According to "Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to...

FBI agents are investigating several contributions made to Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's (R) campaign for the U.S. Senate.

The New Republic reports that FBI agents are looking into contributions made to Mandel and U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci (R) from employees of a firm owned by Benjamin Suarez,...

The Mississippi state lawmaker who cited a Bible passage on Facebook calling for gay men to be "put to death" has taken to the social networking site again to refuse to apologize for the remark.

Rep. Andy Gipson (R-Braxton) went on Facebook Friday to say that...

Following a debate that compared Kansas to New York City, the Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives on Friday passed a new congressional district map that favors the reelection of the state's entire GOP congressional delegation. The map still needs approval from the state Senate.

Just days before, Kansas Secretary of...

WASHINGTON -- A week after unseating a six-term incumbent senator, leaders of FreedomWorks, a national Tea Party organization, said they have the winning formula to install a conservative majority in the Senate.

The group told HuffPost that the process used by a Hoosier Tea Party coalition

Kansas lawmakers are in the process of drafting a sweeping overhaul of the state's labor laws that opponents fear could hurt all non-white collar workers in the state.

State lawmakers have been in conference committee meetings all week writing a final version of a labor bill, which would bring...

The Tea Party-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Wednesday afternoon to ban implementation of policies connected to the United Nations' Agenda 21, its program of recommended sustainability measures adopted in 1992.

The House voted 201 to 99 in favor of the ban, becoming the second state legislative body...

The 162-year-old border war between Missouri and Kansas heated up again this week as Show Me State lawmakers voted three times to ban a Kansas logo from their Missouri license plates.

A bipartisan team of Missouri lawmakers proposed amendments to three separate bills to prohibit the University of Kansas'...