Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless. They also want the deficit to come down. And most are ready to hand the bill to the wealthy. A Bloomberg

Former Alaska governor says Obama should boycott Copenhagen summit A former vice president and a former vice presidential nominee are engaged in a public battle over climate change, a tiff sparked by Sarah Palin's op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post.....

MASSIVE CUTS TO MEDICARE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS. Despite grave warnings from CBO, FactCheck.org, and the independent Lewin Group that cuts to Medicare of the magnitude included in Speaker Pelosi's bill would have a negative impact on seniors' benefits and

Isn't it perfectly clear that the uproar over a public option in the health care reform bill now squeezing its way through Congress is about nothing but the foot in the door to socialized medicine and ultimately to other socialized things? What a break

Just before Memorial Day weekend, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act of 2009 by vote of 33-25. Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA) legislation has been introduced in the House a

I find it curious that women are overwhelmingly in favor of abortion. A few women were kind enough to let me know why, and here's what they said.

The Captive Primate Safety Act would make it illegal to engage in interstate and foreign commerce with primates as pets, making it much more difficult for people to buy a chimp as a pet. Tell the Senate to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act!

The Pentagon has been funding Texas A&M University to pay landowners near a Texas military post to protect endangered bird species on their land under a secretive program designed to free the military to conduct training activities.

In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting. Although firmly ensconced, even in the popular imagination. Who cares?...I do!

In the waning days of his lame-duck presidency, Bush continues to push dangerous anti-labor/anti-environment regulations.