Obama's In-Flight Cash Plea  —  In an anxious conference call from Air Force One, Obama asked campaign donors to send more money.  Lloyd Grove obtained the tape and describes the presidential pitch.  —  President Obama sounded weary and maybe a tad worried late Friday during …

Bain Attacks Make Inroads for President  —  Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital to raise questions about Mr. Romney's commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say …

What Really Makes Us Fat  —  A CALORIE is a calorie.  This truism has been the foundation of nutritional wisdom and our beliefs about obesity since the 1960s.  —  What it means is that a calorie of protein will generate the same energy when metabolized in a living organism as a calorie of fat or carbohydrate.

Power outages could last for days  —  Daybreak Sunday found 789,358 in the Washington region still without power, facing another sweltering day and the prospect of returning to work Monday before electricity is restored to their homes.  —  Many roads made impassable by fallen trees …

GOP lawmakers: Romney needs to distance himself from Bush  —  Republican lawmakers say Mitt Romney should distance himself from former President George W. Bush.  —  Such a move, they say, would take away a key political advantage from President Obama, who has repeatedly suggested Romney …

Gov. Scott Says Fla. Won't Comply with Health Care Law  —  The governor announced Friday night the state would not expand the Medicaid program to lower number of uninsured residents  —  South Florida health care experts and politicians were quick to react Thursday to the to Supreme Court's decision …

How Liberals Win  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA has endured much criticism of his legislative skills from his fellow progressives.  His conciliatory approach has been compared unfavorably with Franklin D. Roosevelt's gleeful pugnacity and Lyndon B. Johnson's relentless arm-twisting.

Chief Justice Roberts and His Apologists  —  Some conservatives see a silver lining in the ObamaCare ruling.  But it's exactly the big-government disaster it appears to be.  —  White House judge-pickers sometimes ask prospective nominees about their favorite Supreme Court justice.

Bobby Jindal: Libraries?  We Don't Need No Stinkin' Libraries!  —  No libraries for you, little people of Louisiana!  Bobby Jindal just signed a $25 billion dollar budget that cut all state funding for libraries, which wasn't exactly a huge porkfest to begin with ($900,000).