Joe the Plumber

WASHINGTON -- Republicans held on to their House majority in Tuesday's election, leaving Democrats well short of the net gain of 25 seats they needed to take control. "The American people have once again given the House of Representatives to Republicans,...

Things certainly seem to be breaking President Barack Obama's way of late. A slew of new polls last week showed gains for him in crucial battleground states, most notably Ohio, the one state no Republican has ever won the presidency without. Mr. Obama...

White House issues new protections for military families, veterans targeted by diploma mills WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants to trademark the term “GI Bill” in an effort to shield veterans and military families being...

Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known by his alter ego "Joe the Plumber," is back. The prospective small business owner, who got his 15 minutes during the 2008 election, has taken on a new venture.  Politics…  On Super Tuesday, Wurzelbacher won his...

Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine The Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public-school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit...

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Dennis Kucinich, a liberal gadfly in Congress who tried to have former President George W. Bush impeached over the Iraq war, was defeated by a fellow Democratic incumbent on Tuesday in the first of 11 primary races......

Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine the Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit...

Joe the plumber, you know the guy who thrust himself into the spot light during the last presidential election, is now running for Congress. His real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher and he's an average American, who works hard and would like to keep...

Joe the Plumber -- a.k.a. Samuel Wurzelbacher -- is running for Congress from Ohio. His platform seems to be in tune with the Republican Party -- with one exception. Joe the Plumber opposes free-trade agreements....

Joe the Plumber in 2008. Now, Joe the Congressman could be his next step in 2010....

The state of Missouri is known throughout the humane community as "puppy mill central," a state which by some reckonings is home to nearly a third of the nation's wretched breeding factories that churn out litter after litter of puppies......

As voters across the country go to the polls, many animal lovers are watching one state in particular: Missouri, where debate has been raging for months over a proposition that would impose new regulations on large-scale dog breeding operations....