State Sen. Paul Stanley (R-Memphis) will resign his chairmanship of the Senate Commerce Committee tomorrow, NashvillePost.com has learned, in the wake of the revelation that he was the subject of an attempted blackmail scheme over a sexual relationship...

Sunrise Sen. Nan Rich's proposal to make it a crime to have sex with animals (yes, it's legal in Florida) finally got a hearing and a swift unanimous vote in the Senate Criminal Justice committee. Rich, a child's rights advocate, said that those who

last night on Fox News, Steele urged Democrats to pass a health care reform without GOP input. Republicans can't block the bill. The Republicans can't even filibuster in the Senate.

If, as the leader of the Family has noted, power is reliant upon invisibility, the conservative Christian organization may have just been dealt a damaging blow.

By MASSIMO CALABRESI AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF-Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling

Jindal presented Lafayette with yet another jumbo-sized check that contained at least $2,125,584 in Recovery Act funds. Though the money came from spending policies authorized by the Recovery Act, Jindal did not appear to credit the Recovery Act at all.

"So it seems to me that we have a responsibility to the Republican Party not to be seen as destroying or at least not talking about things that people believe are wrong with the present health-care system," Grassley said.

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn's spokesman, Claude Chafin said she mispoke and apologized for her comments Wednesday that "we're not going to cry emergency every time we have a Katrina."

President Obama finally admitted what we have known all along. "I want to cover everybody. Now, the truth is that unless you have a single-payer system, in which everybody's automatically covered, you're not going to reach every single individual"...

If you're trying to dissuade someone from buying something, it's best not to tell them it's the cheaper option. But that's the strategy behind GOP opposition to the "public option" contained in the healthcare reform efforts currently being debated in DC