Sonia Sotomayor officially cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Obama administration will "require" health insurance plans to cover some weight loss programs to help fight obesity. I still like my idea better .. a FAT tax.

This is not good news for Barack Obama. A majority of Americans believe exactly the opposite of what he is preaching about healthcare: it is going to increase costs and hurt the quality of care.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed says that the Senate Finance Committee would wrap up its work on the health care reform bill before the end of next week.

Okay, so Republican representatives may know more about the Democrat healthcare bill than Democrat representatives. Here's an idea. Why don't the Republicans come up with some darn ideas for themselves. Hell, I could write a better bill in ten minutes.

Politicians are trying really hard to convince you that this economic stimulus plan is working. For example, they will count a job as being created by the economic stimulus ... even if it only 3 hours worth of work.

The Government Accountability Office is expected to add the Postal Service to its list of "high risk" government operations.

The government can't properly decide what cars would qualify for its own stimulus program.

Now that George Bush is out of office, who are the Democrats going to blame when things don't go their way?

Rep. Jeff Flake isn't making any friends in the House Rules Committee right now. Good for him.

Chicago is experiencing the coldest July in 67 years. Must be all that global warming.

The British government published a 20-page report on how to Twitter. Wait, 20 pages?

Can you be sued for a Tweet? Apparently the answer is yes.

This story out of Atlanta is getting national attention. An Atlanta police officer shot and killed a family dog while investigating a house call.

The traffic at the official White House Web site--whitehouse.gov--has fallen from a post-Inauguration peak to nearly the same level it was toward the end of the Bush administration.

Which conservative commentators are NOT on the birther bandwagon?