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Millions of seniors who signed up for popular private health plans through Medicare are facing sharp premium increases this year — another sign that spiraling costs are a problem even for those with solid insurance. Complete Story...
Conservative activists open 'our Woodstock'Huh? Since when is attempting to blow up a federal building NOT an act of domestic terrorism?Debunking Liberal ExcusesSo who's still advertising on Beck? February 18 edition ...Scott Brown says stimulus 'didn't create one new job' (Truth-O-Meter: Pants on Fire)Erickson on Right-Wing Infrastructure: "We've got Fox News"Family Guy Actress with Down Syndrome's Sarah Palin Smackdown Too Hot for NYT
Killfile: We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us: Or "So When Do We Start Torturing Teabagers?"
ThomastonPaine: Poll: Do You Agree That Most Americans Support The Public Option? 
Sol-Badguy: The Tea Party? A veritable ghost town...for some
AmusedinVa: The case against cap and trade. A real solution.
Frank Black: Whitewingnut Pundits Have Blood On Their Hands
The U.S. military mission in Iraq will soon be getting a new name.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has raised a staggering $14.2 million since the beginning of the year and has a hefty $6 million left in his campaign account as of the start of February, documents show.
State accomplishments, check. Conservative branding, check. Follow-through, questionable.
The State Department says that the United States and 46 other countries have made a significant dent in the percentage of successful pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa.
In a Feb. 16 story about Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Michigan, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Biden said the U.S. would lead the world economically throughout the 21st Century. An AP transcription of Biden's remarks at Delta College showed that he actually said "20th Century." The vice president's correct quote was: "I refuse — I absolutely, literally, not a joke — I refuse to accept the notion that the United States of America is not going to lead the world economically throughout the 20th Century."
President Barack Obama's new deficit commission might give Americans a slap in the face about the sacrifices needed to avoid bankrupting future generations — maybe working until age 70, paying higher taxes and spending more of their own money for doctors' visits and prescriptions.
For all of its talk about transparency, the White House shut out the press Thursday when President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama.
After his meeting with President Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama is chiding China for its "childish" and "limited" approach to Tibetan efforts for greater rights within China.
President Barack Obama personally welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House on Thursday and lauded his goals for the Tibetan people, but he kept their get-together off-camera and low-key in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with China.
Conservatives seem more fired up than they've been in years, rallying against President Barack Obama. But energy alone won't herald a Republican revolution, and the excitement pulsing through the GOP base masks disputes and divisions the party faces ahead of critical midterm elections.
Republican Mitt Romney blistered President Barack Obama for a squandered first year of policy failures and broken promises on Thursday, informally auditioning before a key part of the GOP base for the chance to challenge the Democrat in 2012.
An oil and gas drilling technique that is becoming more widespread is drawing scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that it may pose a hazard to human health by tainting drinking water and harming the environment.
The Federal Aviation Administration's lax oversight of aircraft maintenance at American Airlines raises concerns about the agency's ability to regulate airline maintenance in general, a government watchdog said.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has told conservative political activists he thinks Barack Obama is a "one-term president."
Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday the U.S. must spend significantly more to ensure the readiness of American nuclear warheads even as the president presses an agenda to rid the world of those weapons.
A federal law enforcement official has identified the pilot in the Austin, Texas, plane crash as Joseph Stack and says investigators are looking at an anti-government message on the Web linked to him.
Teabagger Fail: CPAC Speaker Slams Obama's Teleprompter Use While In Front Of TelempromptersThe Tea Party's choice in the Florida Republican primary, Marco Rubio, began his address to a crowd of conservative conventioneers by taking a shot at President Obama for reading from a teleprompter. He did it while standing in front of two easily visible teleprompters.
Sen. Lautenberg has 'curable' stomach tumorNew Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, 86, has been diagnosed with stomach cancer, according to his office.
Beck Attacks Tea Party Candidate for Texas Governor - A Conservative Sucker Punch and Smear Job - Republicans Must Destroy Tea PartyTo me this is about election campaigns and the negative ads, dis-information, smear tactics and special interest and their lobbyists.
Weekly jobless claims data came out again on Thursday, and the data again showed how the Obama/Democrat "stimulus" has utterly FAILED.
Poll: Large Number Of Texans Doubt The Theory Of Evolution, Believe In Human-Dinosaur CoexistenceA new University of Texas/Texas Tribune survey shows just how destructive a politicized right-wing curriculum can be. A large number of Texans polled said they still don't believe in evolution and are convinced that humans and dinosaurs co-existed
Rep Joe Sestak: White House offered me job to drop out of primary electionRep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) says the White House offered him a "high-ranking" federal job in return for him dropping his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.).
Senate GOP challengers woo conservativesMarco Rubio and J.D. Hayworth have different styles and different backgrounds and they're from opposite sides of the country. But both are hoping to win Senate seats by tapping into the energy of conservatives to defeat big-name, establishment-backed Republicans.
Conservatives' Real Agenda Revealed at CPAC Conference: Love of Torture and Hatred of ObamaAt first, the opening roster of speakers at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference sounded a common theme: How many ways can conservatives -- a term re-purposed to describe the Tea Party movement -- threaten the establishment of the Republican Party? Given the exube …
Obama Jackpot Giveaway In Vegas: $1,500,000,000 Housing Help President Barack Obama is unveiling $1.5 billion in housing help, a boost timed to his appearance in the city with the worst foreclosure crisis in the nation.
Are Greece's problems a glimpse of things to come in the United StatesAre we facing the same collaspe as Greece? Substitute the EU in this article for China!! Could state and federal labor unions cause the same damage to our ecomony when it is their time to pay the piper?
Lawless Policy: TARP as Congressional FailureThe Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 created the Troubled Assets Relief Program, which is authorized to spend up to $700 billion buying financial instruments from banks and other institutions.
Black-Robed Legislators on the BenchWell, Sam Alito and Barack Obama may have to agree-to-disagree on whether the Supreme Court has ignored a century of judicial precedents in its Citizens United ruling, but there is an unusually high level of agreement among the public about the ruling: They hate it.
Satire - Wall Street Rejects Short-Term Thinking, Embraces Shorter-Term ThinkingNEW YORK - It was champagne and truffles on Wall Street last Monday as the Dow soared almost two whole points during a five minute period between 9:12 and 9:17 AM, EST.
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