Kathleen Miller

Staffers working for a Republican vying for a New York Congressional seat called the police to a parking lot where a reporter for the conservative publication The Weekly Standard had been trying to get her to answer questions about her support for union card-check legislation and various health care reform proposals.
Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the Republican [...]

The head of South Carolina’s Republican Party will not ask two county GOP leaders to resign after authoring a newspaper editorial that praises Sen. Jim DeMint for being like a “Jew” who is “watching our nation’s pennies.”
The letter appeared in Sunday’s edition of the South Carolina newspaper The Times and Democrat, and was authored by [...]

U.S. Army commanders in Iraq had an advisory suicide prevention plan, but no mandatory steps to follow when dealing with at-risk soldiers like the one accused of killing five troops at a military mental health clinic last May, according to a review of military procedures.
Sgt. John Russell is accused of shooting and killing five soldiers [...]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dodged questions Monday about whether comments from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani made at weekend campaign events on his behalf were intended to ignite racial controversy.
Giuliani warned Sunday that crime rates could skyrocket if Bloomberg doesn’t win re-election—Bloomberg’s main opponent is the African-American Democratic nominee and city controller Bill Thompson.
“I [...]

The White House is distancing itself from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, meeting directly with CEOs of major American companies, more often than with the lobbying group that has long-represented business interests, several media reports said Monday.
President Obama’s administration enjoyed the support of the U.S. Chamber early on, when the organization rushed to embrace his [...]