Thank God at least one member of Congress still knows where the Legislative branch's priorities should lie. While everyone else is focusing on little things like two wars and an economic crisis,...

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge is thinking seriously about running against Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., in 2010 and will make his decision in the next couple weeks, the Washington Post's Chris...

Former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., Bob Dole's running mate in 1996, died Saturday evening. He was 73. Kemp first came to prominence as a football player, quarterbacking the Los Angeles (later San...

Even before President Obama has settled on his choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter -- indeed, even before he spoke on Friday afternoon about the qualities he'd like to...

Speaking with reporters after a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday, President Obama reiterated his promise that CIA officials and agents who acted "within the four corners of legal...

One of Joe Lieberman's colleagues in the Connecticut delegation doesn't think very highly of the way the "independent Democrat" has been mucking up healthcare reform legislation. "Joe Lieberman has always been a person of conscience, and I take him...

A few weeks ago I wrote a column for the Baltimore Sun (original link no longer public) along with a post at 538.com, where I blog regularly, in defense of the U.S. Post Office and postal employees. But hey, that doesn't me they get to skirt their...

President Obama dressing down financial services bigwigs at the White House today? Goldman Sachs chief refusing to come down for the meeting, citing inclement weather? (See our own Andrew Leonard here for more about that, although Salon's Mike Madden...

There is a significant amount of buzz today about Bart Gordon's announcement that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term. Gordon is one of the more conservative members of Nancy Pelosi's House majority. He is in his 13th term...

A new poll from Public Policy Polling has some mostly unsurprising findings about how Americans rate the past five U.S. presidents, including incumbent Barack Obama. Ronald Reagan, whose name is legally required to be revoked every four minutes during...