On March 3, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., took the Fairness Doctrine and its often overlooked potential threat to Christian radio to the Senate floor. The Oklahoma senator gave a lengthy floor speech and mentioned that Sen. Jim DeMint's effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Fairness Doctrine issue, ...

It’s a pretty cool place for people your age, from what I’m told. Anyway, I just thought that you should know: do you know Sarah & James Parker? They go to your school. Yeah, them. Are they nice? I’ve never met them, so I don’t know. I do know that their parents really ca...

I met Mike Huckabee once, briefly, and he was extremely charming. He offered up more of what I’d seen in the best of Mike Huckabee on television—a charismatic, friendly guy who laced his conservatism with real Christian values like generosity and humility. And then there’s this guy: &#...

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President Barack Obama is giving the State of the Union Address, which is not really a State of the Union. There is a lot of discussion about what he might say. Language Guru George Lakoff has a good post on DK about Obama’s progressive code. Six weeks ago, the smartest guy in Washington DC se...

Hat Tip: Politico.com Sen. Dick Durbin urged Sen. Roland Burris on Tuesday to quit his job as the junior senator from Illinois, but the embattled senator has no plans of leaving the Senate. In a private meeting that lasted nearly an hour, Durbin told Burris that the growing controversy over his appo...

In a meeting a short time ago, Senator Dick Durbin told Roland Burris he should consider resigning. Burris said he won't. Durbin did not sound happy. He told Andrea Mitchell that Burris "did not give a full disclosure" about his contacts with Blagojevich. And, he talked about the criminal investigat...

Burris admitted this week he had several discussions about fundraising with Blagojevich. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Wednesday that a Senate ethics panel is investigating Sen. Roland Burris following his disclosure that he had spoken with Rod Blagojevich's brother about r...

A newly revealed e-mail indicates the Justice Department was close to completing an internal investigation on senior lawyers who wrote controversial positions on the legality of waterboarding....

Cross-posted from Congress Matters. Remember when Harry Reid and Dick Durbin said Roland Burris' credentials appointing him to the Senate were insufficient because they originally lacked the signature of Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White? And remember when they only approved his swearing in wh...