District of Columbia Politics News

The controversy about the Hawaiian birth certificate of the President-elect Barack Obama - which raises questions about Obama's eligibility to take office next month - has reached the Supreme Court, which is likely to announce Monday whether it will consider...

Just when you think that Democrats may be on the verge of finally getting the 60 votes needed to pass a Senate Healthcare Bill, Abortion and abotion activists rear their ugly heads again. Once again placing their own selfish needs...

It’s official: Barack Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate conference on December 18, the final day of scheduled negotiations. Originally slated only for a brief stopover at the start of the conference, en route to accepting his Nobel Peace Prize...

It is rather ironic that Obama should now win the praise of the same neo-con hawks that pushed Bush towards an aggressive imperialist policy. In fact some of these figures were involved in the PNAC (Project for a New American...

So it's hard not to like today's unemployment report : the economy only lost 11,000 jobs in November, a number so small the Labor Department considers the employment level "essentially unchanged" from October. That's after shedding an average of 135,000...

When it comes to trimming entitlements such as Medicare there is all sorts of talk about the expenses being unsustainable. But when it comes to military adventures this does not really come up. There is all sorts of talk about...

Modestly, moderately, jobs. These are the three words that cover just about everything that is going on in America’s political economy. The latest summary prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports that “economic conditions have generally improved...