For the second time this year, a top U.S. official visiting China has declined in advance to publicly discuss Beijing's human rights record, a shift in practice that comes almost exactly two decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre. ...more

May 24, 2009

Attilio Corbo of Palm Harbor says op-ed page columnist James Hibbs all wrong on torture issue. ...more

May 15, 2009

During discussions with people here in my community, when you ask them who has control over taxing, spending and oversight during the last eight years they will tell you "Bush and the Republicans." ...more

March 26, 2009

The Democratic-led House overwhelmingly approved a bill today to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from AIG and other firms bailed out by taxpayers. The vote was 328-93. "We want our money back and we want our money back now for the taxpayers," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. ...more

March 19, 2009

Members of both parties Monday voted to keep their cherished home-state projects as the Senate resumed debate on a spending bill covering foreign aid and domestic agency budgets. By a 63-32 vote, lawmakers rejected a bid by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to effectively strip about 8,000 of those earmarks from the $410 billion measure. ...more

March 9, 2009

President Barack Obama led a Kennedy Center crowd in a performance of "Happy Birthday" on Sunday night, capping a star-studded musical birthday tribute to ailing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. ...more

March 9, 2009

crack down on free speech they don't like, that is - is now impossible to deny. ...more

March 8, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't lose her temper. But she unleashed a bit of sarcasm when someone suggested, yet again, that she's a thorn in President Barack Obama's side. ...more

March 7, 2009

He's at the start of his first term, riding high in public approval ratings, supported by Congress' Democratic leaders and fresh out of the gate with legislative victories. ...more

February 24, 2009

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford has been found in Virginia and served with legal papers in a multibillion-dollar fraud case. ...more

February 20, 2009