Democrats face threats, vandalism over health care vote
Democratic Congress members are getting lessons from the FBI on how to handle threats such as several directed at their colleagues, including bricks hurled through windows and menacing obscenity-laced phone…
Tea Party brews terrorism
Tea Party activist Mike Troxel of Lynchburg, VA, decided it would be cute to post what he thought was Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello‘s home address on his blog after the…
Mistakes will force health care bill back to the House
Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama‘s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have…
Tea Party hurts Republicans at ballot box
Warning to Republicans. The Tea Party could cost you election victories in November. A new poll shows that while the GOP leads Democrats in many Congressional districts, that lead would…
Obama signs executive order banning payments for abortions
President Barack Obama signed an executive order barring taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions, keeping to a pledge he made to help push his health care reform…
A Half-Baked Alaska Sermon
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. 1999 – Glenn Beck begins talks with Church of Latter Day Saints…
Oops! Health care bill overlooks children
Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children. Obama…
Now it’s up to the Senate
President Barack Obama has signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. health care since Medicare, but one last chapter in the epic struggle is still playing out in…
States challenge constitutionality of health care law
Top legal officials from 14 states across the country on Tuesday filed lawsuits challenging an overhaul of the U.S.’ $2.5 trillion healthcare system, minutes after President Barack Obama signed the…
Anybody got a user manual on health care reform?
President Barack Obama and the Democrats have overcome their doubts and divisions to pass landmark health care legislation affecting every family and one-sixth of the economy. The president will sign…
