Aleksandra Kulczuga

If a hurricane blows away your Boca Raton beach house, AllState — one of the largest providers of homeowners' insurance in Florida — hopes taxpayers will guarantee your policy so it won't have to. (more)

When Mitt Romney criticized the Obama health-care program earlier this week, leading Democrats responded by pointing out that, as governor of Massachusetts several years ago, Romney himself presided over the enactment of strikingly similar reforms. RomneyCare and ObamaCare aren’t so different, Democrats argued. If you liked one, you can’t attack the other. (more)

Bad for the country? Maybe. Good for Republican fundraising efforts? Without question.  That’s the early verdict on Obama’s health care plan. In the hours after the House voted on the bill last night, the RNC’s website received so much traffic, it briefly crashed. By 4:00 PM this afternoon, GOP headquarters had raised $600,000, with money pouring in at what appeared to be about $1,000 a minute. (more)

The battle in Congress over the true cost of the health care rages on, despite a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score released on Thursday estimating the bill would reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years. (more)

More than 175,000 lucky Tennesseans live nestled in the green rolling hills of what is, when adjusted for cost of living, America’s wealthiest county. Home to vast horse farms and country music stars' getaways, bucolic Williamson County is located just south of Nashville, and tops The Daily Caller’s list of America’s 100 most conservative-friendly counties (click for slideshow of the top 20). (more)

With House Democrats primed to pass President Obama's health-care reform with zero Republican votes, The Daily Caller looked at the history of major entitlement legislation, and found that everything from the Social Security Act of 1935 to its largest overhaul (in 2003, under President Bush) all passed with bipartisan support. If the current bill goes through, it will be the first major legislation in the history of 75 years of social welfare programs in the country to do so with only one party's backing. (more)

Eleven-year-old Marcelas Owens, who last week invoked his deceased mother's memory during a speech on Capitol Hill, won't stay America's youngest health-care activist for long — his sister Monique, 7, is next to be thrust into the limelight. (more)

Following a two-week absence, the Fort Hood attorney was back at it Friday despite a gag order, blogging on the perceived injustices suffered by his defense team in defending Major Nidal Hasan, the man charged in the shooting deaths of 13 people. (more)

Daily Caller reporter Aleksandra Kulczuga strikes gold and passes it along. According to the Washington Examiner, there's a pattern among drivers who reported unintended acceleration in their Toyota: (more)

President Obama delivered a major speech on Thursday promoting U.S. exports, just days after one of America’s largest trading partners, Brazil, threatened retaliatory tariffs against American products. (more)

President Obama met Haitian President René Préval at the White House on Wednesday with a promise of further American aid for the Caribbean nation. According to U.S.A.I.D., the United States to date has donated $712.7 million — far more than any other country — to Haiti in the wake of its Jan. 12 earthquake. Also on Wednesday, the USNS Comfort floating hospital left Hispaniola's waters after almost seven weeks in the region. A total of 871 patients were treated and 843 surgical procedures were performed aboard. (more)

Supporters of Obama’s health-care plan on Tuesday staged a last-ditch protest in Washington to buoy the bill limping through Congress, targeting their anger at health insurance CEOs who were meeting at D.C.'s Ritz Carlton for America’s Health Insurance Plans’ (AHIP) national policy conference. (more)

One of America’s highest-profile murder cases gained further notoriety last week when the defense attorney for Major Nidal Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 and wounding 30 in a November shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, publicly expressed his indignation over the trial online. (more)

Executives at bailed-out Wall Street banks could soon take a hit to their bank accounts, as the Senate votes on a measure that could tax their bonuses at 50 percent — including on money the bankers earned last year. (more)

The race for Jim Bunning's Kentucky Senate seat is on — and former presidential candidate Ron Paul’s son Rand is a contender for the Republican nomination. (more)

As Congress held its third set of hearings on the Toyota recall Tuesday, the General Motors recall of 1.3 million vehicles went largely unnoticed on Capitol Hill. (more)

A year into his tenure as transportation secretary, Ray LaHood has made his self-described “rampage” against texting while driving a signature issue. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have bans on texting while behind the wheel, and LaHood last week proposed language for a nationwide ban, and said he wants to eliminate all distractions while driving. (more)

While the Senate Banking Committee may be close to proposing a financial regulatory reform bill, elsewhere in Washington the investigation continues into what caused the meltdown in the first place. (more)

In one of President Obama’s highest-profile days as America's chief executive, all eyes were on how well he managed what was at times an acrimonious debate on health care. The Daily Caller talked to business and management experts about how he did as the man at the head of the table during his marathon public meeting. (more)

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would grant Native Hawaiians special rights as reparations for the 1893 peaceful overthrow of their Queen Liliuokalani which led to the eventual annexation of their island by the United States. (more)