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Dennis Kucinich cozies up to Fox News
What's this? It is a political and cultural moment both.
Whole Foods CEO: Health care law 'like fascism'
The CEO of Whole Foods compared President Obama's health care law to "fascism" in a radio interview on Wednesday, a turnabout from earlier comments in which he compared the signature reforms to socialism.
Allen West lands new conservative media gig
Former Republican Rep. Allen West, an outspoken tea party firebrand who lost re-election in November after one term, has been hired by the conservative PJ Media as director of "next generation programming."
NRA: 'Attacking firearms and ignoring children is not a solution'
The National Rifle Association said Wednesday it looks forward to working on a bipartisan basis with Congress "to find real solutions to protecting America's most valuable asset — our children."
FOX News shunned at Obama press conferences
"The favorite news outlet of conservatives ranks just ninth in presser questions in President Obama's first term, getting to ask questions at only half the rate of the 'Big Three' broadcast networks," reports Eric Ostermeier, a University of Minnesota media analyst who literally counted the number of questions at White House press conferences from 2009 through Monday.
Poll: More Americans favor stricter gun controls
A new poll shows the country is deeply divided when it comes to tighter gun controls, with a majority of people favoring stricter laws, a large percentage opposed and only a handful who don't have an opinion on the matter.
House plans vote to overturn Obama's pay hike
The House will vote next week on a bill to extend the federal workers' pay freeze, with Republican leaders saying the deficit is still too high to begin hiking salaries.
D.C. banner lobbies for vote on Obama parade route
One day after President Obama agreed to use license plates that call attention to the D.C. resident's lack of voting rights in Congress, city leaders unveiled a large banner at city hall that will highlight their constituents' plight during Mr. Obama's inauguration parade.
Leahy on guns: Treat children better than deer
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that he supports closing the gun-show loophole and limiting high-capacity ammunition magazines, and said he'll convene the first hearings surrounding the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Obama proclaims Religious Freedom Day
On the same day he is proposing to place restrictions on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, President Obama issued a proclamation celebrating the First Amendment by declaring Wednesday as Religious Freedom Day.
White House: NRA ad 'repugnant,' 'cowardly'
The White House hit back strongly Wednesday against a new ad from the National Rifle Association that invokes President Obama's daughters and criticizes him for not fully backing more armed guards in schools, labeling such an attack "repugnant and cowardly."
White House raises threshold for petitions to 100,000 signatures
The right to petition the White House for redress of citizens' grievances, from deporting CNN anchor Piers Morgan to states asking to secede, just got more burdensome.
Gallup: Economy and federal dysfunction trump gun control issues
President Obama will dwell dramatically and perhaps conveniently on gun control during a much ballyhooed appearance with jittery youngsters on Wednesday, prompting talk radio host Laura Ingraham to ponder the president's onetime claims that children should be left out of politics.
Norton again offers D.C. statehood bill in Congress
The District's non-voting member of Congress introduced a bill on Tuesday to make the nation's capital the 51st state, an act that's essentially become tradition for the city's "warrior on the Hill."
Texas lawmaker: Arrest officials who enforce 'King Obama' gun laws
A Texas state lawmaker plans to introduce legislation that would make it illegal for officials to enforce any measures approved by President Obama or passed by Congress that ban so-called assault weapons or limit the capacity of gun ammunition clips, a San Antonio radio station reports.
Democrats blast Boehner for taxpayer funded DOMA defense
House Democratic leaders say Speaker John A. Boehner is hypocritically amping up a taxpayer-funded defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts while simultaneously calling for government spending cuts.
MILLER: New York’s radical gun-control law
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the first to successfully exploit the Newtown, Conn. tragedy to pass the most radical and pointless gun-control laws of any state in the country. The most dramatic change will be to lower the limit on magazines from 10 to only seven rounds and a full ban on all so-called assault weapons.
Report: McDonough to be Obama's chief of staff
President Obama could name foreign policy adviser Denis McDonough his next chief of staff by the end of the week, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
Labor board head under fire over corruption lawsuit
A pro-business group called for the resignation Tuesday of National Labor Relations Board member Richard Griffin, a recess appointee by President Obama who has been named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit involving allegations of union corruption.
Constitution reading draws yawns from House
What if they read the Constitution and nobody came?
