The Washington Times' political blog.
By Susan Crabtree | Published March 23, 2012 Comments
With relations between the two allies increasingly tense, President Obama plans to meet with Pakistan Prime Minister Gilani Tuesday during the nuclear security summit in Seoul next week.
by Seth McLaughlin | Published March 23, 2012 Comments
A new poll shows GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has double-digit lead over Rick Santorum heading into the Wisconsin primary early next month.
by Stephen Dinan | Published March 22, 2012 Comments
Sen. Richard J. Durbin announced Thursday he will hold hearings looking into the recent revelation that the New Orleans Saints paid players bounties for injuring other teams' players.
by Seth McLaughlin | Published March 22, 2012 Comments
Mitt Romney released a new campaign commercial in Wisconsin on Wednesday in which he touts his fiscal record as governor in Massachusetts and argues the federal government should act more like a business — as he looks ahead to the state's winner-take-all contest early next month.
by Stephen Dinan | Published March 22, 2012 Comments
A new report by Congress' research division says U.S. oil production is up under President Obama, but almost all of the expansion of oil production in the U.S. came on non-federal land, not on leases from the federal government.
by Sean Lengell | Published March 21, 2012 Comments
Two new polls show the race to fill retiring Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's seat is too close to call.
by David Eldridge | Published March 21, 2012 Comments
Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who has been trading barbs with Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum the past few days, said Wednesday his former Senate colleague isn't ready for the Oval Office.
by Sean Lengell | Published March 21, 2012 Comments
Rep. Charles B. Rangel says he will seek a 22nd term despite being found guilty of several House ethics charges.
by Stephen Dinan | Published March 21, 2012 Comments
Mitt Romney continues to rely heavily on high-dollar donors to his presidential campaign, collecting more than 90 percent of his money in February from contributors who gave at least $200.
by Seth McLaughlin | Published March 21, 2012 Comments
GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich responded to the news that Mitt Romney won the Illinois primary election and he finished in last place by delivering an electronic version of a good old-fashioned, one-two punch, which aimed at chopping down the two men who are easily outpacing him in the race to collect the magic number of delegates needed to seal up the Republican nomination.
by Stephen Dinan | Published March 20, 2012 Comments
Congress's official tax scorekeepers said late Tuesday that a Buffett Rule tax like the one President Obama has called for would raise about $47 billion over the next decade — less than 1 percent of the deficits Mr. Obama's spending plans would lead to.
by Stephen Dinan | Published March 20, 2012 Comments
Newt Gingrich, who last year attacked Paul Ryan's budget as "social engineering," has only kind words this year for the House Budget Committee chairman's second go-around.
by Sean Lengell | Published March 20, 2012 Comments
A new poll shows that Republican Sen. Scott Brown is losing ground on Democrat Elizabeth Warren in this year's Massachusetts Senate race, with the challenger up 5 percentage points.
by David Eldridge | Published March 19, 2012 Comments
Depending on which news report you read, Rush Limbaugh has lost anywhere from a few dozen to more than a hundred advertisers since late February, when the radio talk show host called law student and contraception advocate Sandra Fluke a "slut."
by Susan Crabtree | Published March 19, 2012 Comments
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the United States was deeply saddened to learn of the killing of four people in a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on Monday morning.
By Andrew P. Napolitano
The president's men trash the Constitution to pursue antagonists
