I get alot of my state news from a key operative for the Ohio Republican Party. He shares his insight with people in monthly emails. Having read his latest, I feel compelled to share and offer reax to his offerings this time. The operative's words are in italics, my reax are not. Ohio's Races in 201...

CF Foundation Develops Congressional Cystic Fibrosis Caucus in the USA, writes Cystic Fibrosis Foundation staffer Kathryn White in a moment of candor. (You can’t find this document directly on the internet anymore, but if you search for the headline on Google, then select the option “Vie...

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why former Louisiana 6th District Representative Richard Baker was so eager to suspend the import duty on the chemicals cyclopentanone and glyoxylic acid. FEC data show, after all, that Baker was a recipient of campaign contributions from the Am...

Apparently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned from her father, Baltimore Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, to diligently keep track of people she has had helped in some way -- with an added twist. Politico: "Those around Pelosi say she has always kept her own favor file. But, like her father, she has also m...

The National Journal's annual vote ratings analysis -- complete with interactive charts -- shows how hard it is to piece together a bipartisan coalition in both the House and Senate. The ratings were based on a list of 167 key congressional roll-call votes for 2008 -- 79 votes for the Senate and 88 ...

The Democrats secretly hope Rep. Michele Bachmann keeps her job forever. Why, you ask? Because she says crazy things, which they can use to raise more money from pissed of lefties....

U.S. News & World Report - By Mary Kate Cary - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - What made his rant so riveting was that he was saying what everyone else seemed to be thinking but not saying: "What about the rest of us—the ones who work hard and play by the rules?" It's the elephant in the room that everyone's ...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to take a harder line with the Senate "after a trio of Republican senators forced Congress to trim billions from the $787 billion economic stimulus package," Politico reports. One possibility is to "force Senate Republic...

As of this morning, 59 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed on in support of H.R. 997, a bill to declare English the national language of the United States and (with some exceptions for national security, criminal justice and the like) to mandate that only English be used in fede...

The only way to close this chapter is for Major League Baseball to go through a deep and intensive soul-searching....