In a close vote, the House of Representatives Friday afternoon passed a financial reform bill intended to re-regulate Wall Street and increase protections for Main Street.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says Hanukkah's lessons should inspire everyone to be thankful for what they have.The eight-day celebration, beginning at sunset Friday, commemorates the rededication of the temple by Jewish rebels...

Reporting from Sacramento - With the state bracing for billions of dollars in budget shortfalls, a group of casinos is offering California leaders a stake in a new pot of money if they allow Internet poker sites to set up business in the state.

The Los Angeles congresswoman stands up even to Obama. Her persistence helped get loans for unemployed homeowners and money to restore foreclosed properties into Wall Street regulatory legislation.

Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked two remote U.S. outposts in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province, on the Pakistani border.

It took 14 weeks for Obama to announce and detail his Afghanistan troop deployment strategy, with many revisions and transitions in the fine-print. However when carefully analyzed, this current exit strategy has been blurred into meaning: "NO EXIT"!

It is beginning to look like some sort of political showmanship, but one simple fact declares that there is not enough U.S. troops, to rationally engage an adequate Afghan defense of our national security interests.

Obama promised to change the siege against endangered species on plants and animals, that are still in peril today. After 1 year in office Obama has failed to keep this promise, and his track record is far worse than that of the Bush Administration!

President Obama is currently poised to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and the Pentagon is gearing up to ask for another $50 billion in funding for the wars (on top of the $130 billion they have already received.) We can't afford to let this happen

U.S. comedian Tim Hawkins' hilarious song and dance routine and takeoff on the old Sammy Davis hit, The Candy Man. It's called The Government Can.Maybe the tide is turning on big government.Shifting U.S. attitudes on climate change,Obama' s cult like medi