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State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, who arrived on Beacon Hill eight years ago as a moderate Democrat, has suddenly become a frequent conservative voice on Fox News, joining its roster of Tea Party activists and right-leaning media stars battling to defeat the Democratic health care plan in Washington. Cahill, with his blistering criticism of the Massachusetts health care law, has made four appearances in three days on national Fox News programs, including yesterday afternoon on Glenn Beck's show, one of the most-watched public affairs programs in the nation. The state treasurer, who left the Democratic Party last summer to run for governor as an independent, has also bought ads on the right-leaning Drudge Report and given interviews to several national conservative magazines, including National Review, American Spectator, and Reason. Why the abrupt and high- profile appeals to the right? His advisers say Cahill is merely trying to use the health care debate to define his independent id

David FrumÕs conservative credentials are unimpeachable. He wrote for the conservative journal National Review for 25 years, was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and even wrote a book with Richard Perle, a man known in liberal quarters as the ÒPrince of Darkness.Ó

In a rare of display of unity, lawmakers and pundits from across the US political spectrum on Friday offered praise for President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrators angered by the Obama administration's move to prosecute the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks in civilian court on U.S. soil called on Saturday for the trial to be moved to a military tribunal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrators angered by the Obama administration's move to prosecute the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks in civilian court on U.S. soil called on Saturday for the trial to be moved to a military tribunal.

Children of William F. Buckley Jr.'s late sister accuse father of stealing from trust fund. Six children of the sister of the late conservative columnist William F. Buckley are accusing their father of stealing money from a trust fund their mother set up using some of the Buckley family fortune.

The New York Senate has delayed a vote on a gay marriage bill. The New York Senate has delayed a vote on a gay marriage bill, the 'New York Times' reported. If and when senators will vote on the bill remains a contentious issue between gay rights activists who've lobbied all year in favor of the bill and lawmakers who continue to put off a vote. Senators said Tuesday closing a $3 billion budget gap was a more pressing matter. Yet, lawmakers adjourned without a resolution on either. Advocates have relentlessly pressed for a vote, calling the budget an ?excuse? not to act on the legislation. ?Of course, budget matters are important,? Alan Van Capelle, executive director of Empire State Pride Agenda, the state's largest gay advocate, said in a statement. ?But the reality is that there have always been budget problems in Albany and probably always will be.? ?It is time for the New York state Senate to take up the issue of marriage equality. Millions of gay and lesbian New Yorkers and their

New York Governor David Paterson to press for a vote on gay marriage in the Senate next week. New York Governor David Paterson said Thursday that he would press for a vote on gay marriage during an extraordinary session of the Senate he is calling for Tuesday, the AP reported. Gay activists have the support of Paterson who has previously attempted to pressure the Senate to act on the legislation already approved by the Assembly. While the governor controls the agenda in the Senate, he cannot force lawmakers to act. Still, senators appears to be warming up to the idea of counting heads on the issue, including Senate President Malcolm Smith, who earlier advised against taking a vote until it was certain the bill would pass. ?There are obviously still challenges with the votes, but you've got to bring it forward and let it happen, one way or another,? Smith said late last month at a fundraiser for Empire State Pride Agenda, the state's largest gay rights advocate. The bill's sponsor in th

Suggestions that elections indicate a sea change in politics are premature. Relishing TuesdayÕs GOP victories in the governors races in New Jersey and Virginia, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele declared Wednesday, ÒThe Republican renaissance has begun.Ó The editors of the conservative National Review declared in a headline Wednesday: ÒThe comeback begins.Ó

Maggie Gallagher attacks conservative lawyer Ted Olson's reasons for defending gay marriage. Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), has attacked conservative lawyer Ted Olson's reasons for defending gay marriage. NOM, the nation's most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, is a major backer of the campaign to repeal gay marriage in Maine. Olson and David Boies are representing a gay couple and a lesbian couple in their fight to strike down Proposition 8, the voter-approved measure that bans gay marriage in California. Writing at the 'National Review', Gallagher called Olson's defense a use of ?the Constitution (IE the power of government) to impose your values.? ?I have seen the arguments he and David Boies are using in the case to strike down Prop 8 and impose gay marriage on all 50 states,? Gallagher said. ?They are standard liberal fare ? speaking constitutionally, not politically.? Gallagher was rapped by comments Olson made on Sunday to the 'Sa

Irving Kristol, political thinker, writer and godfather of neoconservatism, dead at 89. Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, has died. He was 89.

Republican Mitch Daniels has repeatedly insisted that his 2008 run for a second term as Indiana's governor was his last election and that he's not interested in the "savagery" of a national campaign.

Ind. Gov. Daniels denies White House interest despite growing GOP buzz about his 2012 plans. Republican Mitch Daniels has repeatedly insisted that his 2008 run for a second term as Indiana's governor was his last election and that he's not interested in the "savagery" of a national campaign.

Republicans such as Sen. Tom Coburn trust the nuts, not their own government. ÒIt is time to water the tree of libertyÓ said the sign carried by a gun-toting protester milling outside President Barack ObamaÕs town-hall meeting in New Hampshire two weeks ago. The Thomas Jefferson quote that inspired this message, of course, said nothing about water: ÒThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Ó ThatÕs the beauty of a gun ? you donÕt have to spell out the Òblood.Ó

Reform: If the world's most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, is a shining example of British health care, how is it that others in the U.K. are repeatedly denied critical care and medicine?

CIA: The latest media kerfuffle over the supposedly secret "plan" to kidnap or kill al-Qaida leaders shows just how pathetic our Congress has become. Gee, aren't we supposed to kidnap or kill the enemy?

CIA: The latest media kerfuffle over the supposedly secret "plan" to kidnap or kill al-Qaida leaders shows just how pathetic our Congress has become. Gee, aren't we supposed to kidnap or kill the enemy?

FBI releases file of Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt, including Presidential pardon request. Watergate break-in planner E. Howard Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had "executive authorization," according to FBI documents released two years after his death. He died without getting a pardon.

Senators and others stumble onto many ways to say ÔSotomayorÕ. WASHINGTON ? With the historic nomination of the first Hispanic woman to the U.S. Supreme Court came the phonetic fallout.

New Hampshire is just one vote away from passing a gay marriage bill – again. New Hampshire is just one vote away from passing a gay marriage bill ? again. Senators this morning approved a compromised gay marriage bill that includes the religious protections sought by Governor John Lynch. The 14 to 10 vote went down along party lines with all Democrats in support and all Republicans in opposition. But the real fight will come later today when the House of Representatives takes up the issue. Last month legislators unexpectedly passed a gay marriage bill, but Lynch remained coy about whether he would withhold his signature. House members narrowly approved the measure and Senators dismissed the recommendation of its Judiciary Committee, passing the measure on a 13 to 11 vote. Lynch agreed to go along on the condition that legislators codify religious exceptions for churches and their workers. Opponents howled, calling the governor a turncoat; they said he had broken his promise to protect