Call it embattled women vs. Gov. Sam Brownback.  The gals won. Round one, at least. The case before U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten concerned the Dodge City Family Planning Clinic and the governor’s decision…

Oregon, Montana and Vermont want to move much faster on health care reform than President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act will allow. It’s frustrating.  Oregon Gov. John Kitshaber said, “We want to show that…

Veteran senators Joe Lie-berman, an independent of Connecticut, and Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, have suggested a third year of pay freezes for federal employees.Sens. Collins and Lieberman are both moderates, an endangered Washington species.…

Herman Cain shot to the top of the polls over the past couple of weeks, powered by his 9-9-9 cure-all. The former pizza executive would repeal all of the nation’s tax laws and replace them…

Gov. Rick Perry was talking about America’s problems to fraternity students at Dartmouth College.  He said: “Our founding fathers never meant for Washington, D.C., to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of…

Only 14 percent of registered voters say members of Congress deserved to be re-elected, and 84 percent think it’s time to throw the rascals out and give “someone else a chance,” according to a recent…

Rep. Michele Bachmann says she will turn out the lights at the Department of Education if elected president. Even Mitt Romney, who ran for president in 2008 as a strong supporter of “No Child Left…

Here are three new names to learn: Tawakkol Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee. Ms. Karman, 32, is a leading member of Yemen’s Islamist party, Islah, the largest political party in the country. She…

One of the by-products of a 9.1 percent unemployment rate is an ample supply of young, well-educated, angry folks ready to join a protest movement such as the “99ers” who march and yell slogans under…

head Europe may be on the edge of a new recession. Greece may default, weakening banks throughout the continent. Unemployment remains critically high in some countries. The jobless rate is 20 percent in Spain, double…