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T. Boone Pickens has spent a lifetime in the oil business. Shortly after graduating from Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) in 1951, Pickens went to work for Phillips Petroleum.

Big picture, May 2008: The Democrats aren’t the ones falling apart, the Republicans are.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been giving a series of speeches recently to both define himself to the general electorate and highlight his positions on issues that he intends to campaign on in the fall.

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The Washington Times, a daily that turned 25 last fall, plans to unveil a string of sweeping redesigns that will include a weekly national security section, a new electronic edition, and a Sunday paper that leads with a magazine-style opening section.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean today announced the blogs selected to participate in the DemConvention State Blogger Corps during the four-day event in August.

Funny, the Progressives don’t seem so worked up when Barack Obama works his religion on the campaign trail.

Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is trying to tap a new audience of potential voters by taking his campaign message to liberal and nonpolitical issues-based blogs, which reach millions of readers but don’t often delve into conservative politics.

The centrist Democratic group instrumental to former President Clinton’s rise to the White House in 1992 has some advice for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.: get to the center, starting with taxes.

To hear Sen. Barack Obama tell it, his speech to the Detroit Economic Club last May pitching tougher fuel-economy standards was a Daniel-in-the-lion’s-den moment, one that he has replayed for crowds from Oregon to North Carolina.

Barack Obama is in hot pursuit of general election voters, hoping America won’t notice he got his head handed to him in West Virginia.

Spending some time on the campaign trail has confirmed a couple of thoughts I’ve had before I entered the Republican primary race.

President Bush has threatened to veto a mortgage crisis “relief” bill that the House passed Thursday, 266-155, in the face of that threat. If the Senate doesn’t change the bill substantially – and perhaps even if it does – he should carry through on t

Of all of the current Congress’s attempts to manage the U.S. economy — housing bailouts, “stimulus” packages, an energy bill that bans light bulbs — the farm bill is probably the most exasperating.

For John McCain, global warming is the magic silver bullet, the issue that will unite liberals, moderates and evangelical conservatives into a powerful electoral force that will push him into the White House.

John McCain’s global-warming speech on Monday made it clear that there will be no presidential candidate this year willing to question the assertion that global warming (a.k.a. “climate change”) is manmade, or the assertion that we can fix global wa

I saw Bobby Jindal talk last week at the National Press Club. He’s being widely touted as McCain’s potential running mate, though I agree that this would be a mistake–for Jindal. No one should run for office this year as a Republican who doesn’t have to.

Sen. John McCain’s comments about climate change Friday have sparked a flurry of speculation among national environmentalists, who are now optimistic the presumptive GOP nominee will vote next month for a bill limiting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

A milestone will be reached Tuesday when Elaine Chao becomes the longest-serving secretary of labor since Francis Perkins was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Unions keep losing membership as a share of the national workforce, which explains why organized labor’s main political focus is changing the rules to force more workers into unions.

As Congress moves to aid distressed US homeowners, the prospect of a new rescue is drawing fire from a diverse array of activists, economists and consumers opposing what they call a bailout.

Congress seems ready to spend billions on a new “Manhattan Project” for green energy, or at least the political class really, really likes talking about one. But maybe we should look at what our energy subsidy dollars are buying now.

At least in Oregon, the Republicans seem to be looking forward to taking on Barack Obama over the issue of trade.

University of Maine head football coach Jack Cosgrove announced on Wednesday that Kevin Cahill has joined the coaching staff as an assistant coach in charge of running backs.

Tax and tax. Spend and spend. Elect and elect!” New Deal architect Harry Hopkins may not have actually spoken those words, but they have nonetheless been the working motto of Democrats for 75 years.

As the presidential campaign heats up, a key issue is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 income tax cuts, which expire in 2011. John McCain wants to make the tax cuts permanent. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to let the rates rise.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s speech on judges on Tuesday was a mostly successful effort in his continuing attempt to rebuild bridges with conservatives justifiably angry at him about both issues and attitudes, not to mention anger, in his

The Club for Growth Political Action Committee has long been attacked for intervening in Republican primaries and targeting the party’s most economically liberal incumbents.

Peter Mandelson, European trade commissioner, has said the protectionist stances taken by the US presidential candidates risk taking the world trading system back by decades.

There will be unmelted snowballs in Hades before this Congress agrees to cut out the pork in the farm bill headed for a vote within the next week, so President Bush should get his veto pen ready.

Club for Growth is publishing this scorecard so our members and the public can monitor the actions and the voting behavior of members of Congress on economic growth issues.

I’m getting so completely sick and tired of hearing otherwise sensible people angling for Gov. Bobby Jindal for McCain’s VP.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised he would not accept campaign donations from lobbyists, but apparently former lobbyists don’t fall into his self-imposed ban.

Americans remain split on whether homeowners about to default on their mortgages should receive special treatment to help them keep their houses, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Poll.

Say you’re running for president and dropping by the most economically ravaged state in the nation.

British environmentalist Chris Goodall asserted last year, in his provocative book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, that driving your car to the supermarket could be better for the environment than walking there.

More than two years ago, now-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues promised what they called a “common sense” energy plan to bring down prices at the gas pump.

Accusing Congress of “pandering to the general public,” Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, Tuesday defended oil companies and proposed a $1-per-gallon gas tax to bring down demand.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, clinging to a slim chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination, passed up a chance to send an earmark reform measure to the Senate floor last week

Cleaner air may actually threatenthe Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate scientists.

In order to remain competitive in the general election, John McCain will have to perform a Herculean task: Court the Hispanic vote without alienating the base of the Republican Party.