Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has filed an amendment on the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill, which is now being debated on the Senate floor to prohibit any use of funds in the bill to ACORN. The move comes after ACORN office workers in Baltimore, MD, and...

Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) political life was marked by perseverance in the face of tragedy and the quintessential Irish qualities of grit, determination and tenacity. Kennedy turned the cloud surrounding Chappaquiddick and his unsuccessful 1980 White House bid into decades of public service. And he turned years living in the...

Here's a rising star to look out for...

Last week's 22nd Home Court game, the annual charity basketball throw-down between Members of Congress and the Georgetown Law faculty, was a fitting tribute to the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)--who had long been coach to the "Hill's Angels" team. Tubbs...

A new ad from Repealtherepeal.org, aimed at reinstating the death penalty in NM, started airing statewide yesterday. The spot, which will run on broadcast and cable stations for the next 10 days, is part of an effort to collect signatures to add a referendum reinstating the death penalty...

Leon Panetta's selection as CIA chief not only is being criticized on its own merits, but also is being panned as a procedural blunder, a gaffe that highlights the charges of inexperience that plagued Obama in the early days of his campaign. The fact that Dianne Feinstein, the incoming Chairman...

MI and FL broke the rules; but only because they were swimming in IA and NH's pool

When the DNC primary commission met in 2005 to discuss changing the nomination calendar they anticipated a great number of problems, but today's current situation was the last thing they could have envisioned....

No doubt about it, Hillary Clinton's odds remain long in North Carolina. Just ask Erskine Bowles, who lost two Senate bids because of his connection to the Clinton administration, or ask Bill Clinton himself who lost the state twice. Or better yet, just look at the demographics. Clinton has yet...