Debbie Schlussel calls Sean Hannity’s Freedom Alliance charity a scam.  If a charity is only spending 12% (or less) of the money it brings in to provide the services that the charity was set up to provide when the appropriate benchm...

A plan for the House Democratic caucus to meet with President Barack Obama Saturday in the East Room of the White House has been changed. Now the president is planning to go to the Capitol to make his final pitch for the health care...

A papal letter of apology is the latest effort to save the Catholic Church from another sex abuse scandal within the church, this time one in Germany that's linked to a diocese that Pope Benedict XVI headed as an archbishop. "My hop...

Ohio Rep. John Boccieri says he'll switch to a "yes" vote on health care. ...

President Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while Netanyahu is in Washington for the AIPAC Conference. My guess is that after they've met they will address the media. Here are four things President Obam...

'Let me be clear about this: Lawyers who provide counsel for the unpopular are - and should be treated as what they are - patriots,' Attorney General Holder said Friday. Washington (CNN) – Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday d...

In short, I think it’s highly unlikely.   The big difference between Citizens United and a potential commerce clause challenge is that the Court had a steady trend of being more aggressive in applying First Amendment libertarianism ...

Some items that I came across since writing my article, now posted on Alternet, about the chances of Israel giving in to U.S. pressure: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked up the phone Thursday night and called Secretar...

Yesterday, ret. Gen. John J. Sheehan, the former Supreme Allied Commander for NATO, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) could harm the competency of the U.S. military. To back up his ...

John Boehner (R-OH) was just on Fox News with Sean Hannity to discuss the lack of process the democrats are taking in order to pass healthcare and said the following: "I have never seen anything this bizarre"

Nancy Pelosi tells Bart Stupak that there will be no more deals on abortion language before the health care vote on Sunday: “If you don’t want federal funding for abortion… and you want to have a health care bill,” she said. “This...

"House Democrats yesterday unveiled a $940 billion compromise health care package they said would reduce the deficit and vastly expand health insurance coverage, continuing a march toward what leaders predicted will be final House ...

IBD: Teague To Vote No; Pelosi’s Margin Now Zero.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who is currently trying to help President Barack Obama out of the thickets of immigration, Guantanamo Bay and climate change, showed his claws Friday, declaring he’ll drop out of negotiations on a com...

Stupak's vote won't come cheap -- he's willing to demand Nancy Pelosi sign a piece of paper meaning absolutely nothing at all. BREAKING: Stupak tells me - "There was no agreement and there's no agreement until we see it in...

I watch stuff like this and can't help feeling that people like Glenn Beck made the Soviet Union great. ...

On Thursday’s Daily Show, the part of Glenn Beck was played by Jon Stewart. Railing against progressivism’s pitfalls (though he’s still not quite sure what they are), Stewart lashed out against government takeovers — including a ver...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made a deal with Rep. Bart Stupak in order to secure his vote and that of other anti-choice Democrats for the health care bill, which is scheduled to be voted on this Sunday. According to a member of ...

The big news this afternoon was Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) abandoning his previous promise to offer an amendment to the Senate health care bill adding a public option into the bill. This amendment would need only 51 votes, as the pu...