11:25 AM 02/05/2013
First Scott Brown, then Bill Weld and Tagg Romney. One by one, prominent Republicans are taking a pass on the Massachusetts special election for Senate. But, with apologies to Dr. Keith Ablow, there is already a candidate in the race who voted against Obamacare, opposes abortion and backed the Bush-era invasion of Iraq: Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch.
4:28 PM 02/03/2013
A group aligned with Karl Rove's super PAC believes it can rescue the Republican Party from itself. These self-appointed saviors of the GOP call themselves the Conservative Victory Project, but many Republicans suspect they're out to prevent conservative primary victories.
11:12 PM 01/31/2013
Federal lawmakers opposed to selling military aircraft and tanks to the Egyptian government pressed on Thursday, despite the defeat of an amendment that would have blocked the sale and apparent uncertainty about how their plan would affect Israel's security.
1:20 PM 01/31/2013
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul sought Thursday to block the transfer of F-16 fighter jets and Abrams tanks to Egypt.
2:33 AM 01/29/2013
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul will deliver a wide-ranging foreign policy address at the Heritage Foundation next Wednesday, marking the tea party lawmaker's latest foray into international affairs.
3:20 AM 01/25/2013
Congressional Republicans have been losing the fight over government spending with President Barack Obama, but they like their odds against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. That's the upshot of the House leadership's latest budgetary gambit.
2:36 AM 01/25/2013
Now you too can assume a false email identity.
11:40 AM 01/22/2013
The conservative group Americans for a Strong Defense announced an advertising campaign in five states Tuesday opposing the nomination of former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense.
2:13 PM 01/21/2013
"To listen to many grassroots conservatives, the GOP establishment is a cabal of weak-kneed sellouts who regularly light votive candles to a poster of liberal Republican icon Nelson Rockefeller."
7:37 PM 01/15/2013
Let’s get this straight: Guns are too dangerous to be left in the hands of ordinary Americans. But guns in the hands of unknown rebels, who may turn out to be violent extremists, are just fine.
4:40 PM 01/14/2013
An Eastern Kentucky sheriff has vowed that he will not take part in enforcing federal gun laws that he believes violate his constituents' Second Amendment rights.
5:59 PM 01/09/2013
Outgoing Labor Secretary Hilda Solis served in an administration that touts transparency, but her tenure has been marked by criticism of how she has enforced financial disclosure regulations on labor unions.
4:36 PM 01/07/2013
Robert Bork died recently, but the tactics that kept him off the Supreme Court live on. Some even relish the precedent.
12:14 AM 01/07/2013
Most senators trigger speculation about a possible presidential campaign by scheduling visits to Iowa or New Hampshire. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is attracting questions about his 2016 intentions by traveling to Israel this week.
11:26 PM 01/03/2013
Is the Senate Foreign Relations Committee big enough for both of them? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Arizona Sen. John McCain are two new members of the committee for the 113th Congress.
3:39 PM 01/03/2013
President Barack Obama continued his use of presidential signing statements Wednesday, expressing regret about parts of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as he signed it into law.
2:46 AM 01/01/2013
Two and a half cheers for Louis Michael Seidman, the Georgetown law professor whose "Let's Give Up on the Constitution" was a dead fish wrapped in the New York Times op-ed page.
12:14 PM 12/28/2012
The Senate voted Friday to re-authorize key provisions of the foreign surveillance act that has allowed warrantless wiretapping, despite questions from some senators about the extent of the federal government's monitoring of American citizens.
9:38 PM 12/27/2012
The Senate moved a step closer Thursday to re-authorizing key provisions of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) without major changes, rejecting three proposals to reform warrantless wiretapping.
4:47 PM 12/27/2012
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ed Markey became the first candidate to announce for the state's 2013 special election for U.S. Senate, the Boston Globe reported Thursday.
