The Democrats' naked power grab  —  “Congress is broken,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday before holding a party-line vote that disposed of rules that have guided and protected the chamber since 1789.  —  If Congress wasn't broken before, it certainly is now.

On 50th anniversary of JFK death, Dallas holds first memorial  —  (Reuters) - Dallas will observe the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination with its first official memorial on Friday, as the rest of the nation pauses to remember the event that changed history.

Mary Landrieu approval ratings drop, Bobby Jindal's rise in latest polling data  —  U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's approval rating dropped and Gov. Bobby Jindal's rose over the last six months, according to polling data released Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 from Southern Media & Opinion Research.

Round 2 of ObamaCare enrollment to be delayed until after 2014 midterms  —  The Obama administration plans to delay the start of next year's ObamaCare enrollment period, a move pitched as a way to give consumers and insurance companies more time to study their options …

Expanding Social Security  —  For many years there has been one overwhelming rule for people who wanted to be considered serious inside the Beltway.  It was this: You must declare your willingness to cut Social Security in the name of “entitlement reform.”  It wasn't really about the numbers …

How to Win the Obama-Walker Voters  —  If conservative principles are the problem, then why are so many Republicans in office who campaigned on them?  —  In the wake of the 2012 elections, Republicans are being warned once again that they need to compromise their principles to win at the ballot box.

The South's New Lost Cause  —  Before he was immortalized for saving the union, freeing the slaves and giving the best political speech in American history, Abraham Lincoln was just an unpopular new president handed a colossal crisis.  Elected with 39.7 percent of the vote, Lincoln told a big lie in his inaugural address of 1861.

Levitating Train Between DC And NYC Would Leave The Rest Of America Behind  —  Many Americans have long nursed a pipe dream of one day riding a super-high-speed train just like the engineering marvels that have cropped up in Japan, China, and Europe.  With a newly publicized offer from Japan …

Dual Attacks Take On Voting Restriction Efforts In Arizona, Kansas  —  Well, that didn't take long.  —  Just weeks after Kansas and Arizona made clear their intentions to move ahead with two-tier voting systems, legal efforts are being mounted to fight those plans.

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: November 2013  —  The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public's views souring on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in November, with about half having an unfavorable view of the law and a third having a favorable view, a gap that was seen only once before …

Key part of HeathCare.gov passed test, but Anonymous Shopper shelved anyway  —  Washington (CNN) — When the troubled federal health care website came online, the key “Anonymous Shopper” function was nowhere to be found — even though it passed a key test almost two weeks before HealthCare.gov launched.

Leaning Out  —  How Michelle Obama became a feminist nightmare.  —  Last Tuesday, when Michelle Obama took a fashionably shod toe and dipped it into her husband's efforts to address the nation's higher-ed gap, the move was greeted by some feminists with a relieved, “It's about damn time!”

Democrats call Issa's Obamacare road show a ‘destructive’ political act  —  (CNN) - The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday accused the panel's chairman of engaging in a “destructive political exercise” by launching a series of hearings on the road meant …

State GOP chair Susan Hutchison cites ‘war on women’ in pay-raise spat  —  Susan Hutchison, the new chair of the state Republican party, gets a salary of about $75,000 a year — substantially less than the $95,000 earned by her predecessor, Kirby Wilbur.  —  But when Hutchison tried …

EXCLUSIVE — MCCONNELL: TEA PARTY ‘BULLIES’ WHO NEED PUNCH IN NOSE  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove's Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a …