It was the beginning of a subtle shift in power away from the aristocratic elites of the establishment to the people of the frontier states. Finally, the ascendancy of Jackson gave true meaning to the phase "We the People."

I had the privilege to stand armed watches for my country. However, the privilege to stand those watches required intensive training, strict safety practices and yearly re-qualification. I'm shocked by how many people are resisting common-sense gun safety measures.

WASHINGTON -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's political committee is making its biggest expenditure to date in this year's congressional campa...

WASHINGTON -- The head of the U.S. Census Bureau hammered the House of Representatives on Friday for passing a bill that he said "devastates" the nati...

WASHINGTON –- The House voted Wednesday to eliminate the detailed surveys of America that have been conducted by the Census Bureau since the nation...

Former Rep. Alan Grayson, who is currently running for Congress, was involved in a car accident with a bus on Saturday afternoon. Grayson was en r...

U.S. Rep. Dan Webster said he simply wanted to share some friendly advice with other members of Congress about how to manage town-hall meetings and th...

Staffers of at least one Congressional office, Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.), distributed a "watch list" that features six activists who are constituents of Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), each of whom was openly critical of Webster at his town halls earlier this year.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is "bluffing" about the impacts of a debt default and holding troops and the elderly as "human shields" in the deadlock ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida's freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson was ousted by a veteran GOP politician after the Democrat earned notoriety ...

They are saying the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear drew a crowd of over 200,000, and not a moment too soon. The march occurred the same week La...

September 23, 2010 started as any other day in the 8th district of Florida, and the rest of the United States; coffee was brewed, workers started thei...

Accidentally addressing a neo-Nazi hate group can happen to even the best of folks. But doing it twice? Republican primary voters on Tuesday picked ...

Daniel Webster, the former Florida State Senate Majority leader and a rising star within the GOP, seems to have gotten himself in hot water with some of the Tea Party movements biggest backers -- senior citizens.

A Republican House candidate in Florida wants senior citizens to share the burden of reducing the national budget deficit through cuts to Social Secur...

As Brown goes to Washington, he is aware of the history in "The People's Seat." He would be wise to consult Emerson's 1841 quote, "There is properly no history, only biography."

Here are the ten sources behind the most memorable lines of Obama's address.