Michal Conger

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

A  wheelchair-accessible van maker that received $50 million through the same Energy Department loan program that funded Fisker Automotive has shut its doors and laid off its employees. The DOE froze the Vehicle Production Group’s loan after the company’s finances fell below the...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Benghazi, told Congress today that a State Department official began criticizing his job performance, and he was ultimately demoted, after he asked why U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice attributed the Benghazi attack to an...

Philip Klein

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

A major new study finding that expanding Medicaid does not improve the physical health of the program's beneficiaries is embarrassing for Republican governors who backed Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid. To recap, last year's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court gave states the option of not...

Byron York

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

Tuesday at 5 p.m. was the deadline for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to propose amendments to the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill.  There were a lot of amendments.  Sen. Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the committee, proposed 77.  Fellow...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

Comedian Stephen Colbert mocked Fox News on his show last night for its continuing coverage on the terrorist attacks of Benghazi. Colbert mocked the network for hyping the upcoming House and Oversight Committee hearings on the Obama administration’s response to the attacks, featuring the...

Michael Barone

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Republican Mark Sanford won yesterday’s South Carolina 1 special election by a 54%-45% margin over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert (the alleged comedian Stephen Colbert’s sister) Busch. The turnout of 143,357 was pretty high . This was less than the 62%-34% reelection victory of Republican Tim...

Brian Hughes

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

President Obama on Tuesday vowed to curb sexual assaults in the U.S. military following the release of a Pentagon report that shows a spike in such attacks and just after the Air Force officer in charge of preventing such assaults was charged with groping a woman in Northern Virginia. At a...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Senators who support expanding criminal background checks for gun buyers said Tuesday that they intend to revive the legislation for a vote by this summer, though the measure won't be exactly the same as the one senators defeated a month ago. The Senate last month fell four votes shy of...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Earlier today, we wrote about Sen. Marco Rubio’s criticism of the Heritage Foundation study that outlined the steep cost of  providing a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11.5 million illegal aliens. Rubio called the study “flawed” and suggested it maligned immigrants who are...

Michael Barone

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Markets work. But sometimes they take time. That's the uncomfortable lesson that proprietors of America's colleges and universities are learning. For many years market forces didn't seem to apply to them. There was a widespread societal consensus that a college education was a good economic...