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United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger holds up a document during a news conference in Detroit, Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. A relieved Gettelfinger said he's happy that the White House appears poised to step in and rescue the beleaguered auto industry, and he accused GOP senators who blocked emergency loans of trying to "pierce the heart" of organized labor. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)(CNSNews.com) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is “solely” to blame for the collapse of negotiations on a $14-billion auto bailout deal that stalled in the Senate Thursday, Sen. Tom Colburn (R-Okla.) told CNSNews.com on Friday. But UAW...

WASHINGTON — A new poll suggests that a third political party focused on immigration enforcement could cause a major shakeup in the 2008 election. Just don't bet on border-control crusader Rep. Tom Tancredo to jump on that bandwagon. Today, the political bulletin Rasmussen Reports released a survey of 1,000 people that found that a third-party candidate who promised to make border security and immigration enforcement the "top priority" would run neck-and-neck with a generic Democrat and well ahead of a generic Republican. Tancredo, a lifelong Republican from Littleton, has gained a national following over his border-control crusade and has toyed...

The Supreme Court today effectively expanded the right of local governments to seize private property under eminent domain, ruling that people's homes and businesses -- even those not considered blighted -- can be taken against their will for private development if the seizure serves a broadly defined "public use." In a 5-4 decision, the court upheld the ability of New London, Conn., to seize people's homes to make way for an office, residential and retail complex supporting a new $300 million research facility of the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. The city had argued that the project served a public use within...