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For all the criticism faced by Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater -- since renamed Xe -- no one’s ever called him a killer. But

Colorado voters in 2008 and 2010 roundly rejected “personhood” initiatives that aimed to grant full legal rights to human eggs from the moment of fertilization. The national organization behind the idea, Personhood USA, then took its campaign to Mississippi, betting the state’s large bloc of religious voters might put it over the top and set the stage to challenge Roe v Wade , the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973

In our story Monday about the government’s rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we raised the question of why, once again, no conditions were required

The Illinois General Assembly will address a proposed state education bill mandating more comprehensive sex education in its fall veto session, which begins

Officially, House leaders are saying they’ll have the support to pass an enormous jobs proposal that would extend the deadline to file for additional

It may not be the 9/11 Commission, and may not have the force of, say, John Durham’s Justice Department inquiry into prospective CIA illegality in the Bush

Clifton Hicks, who was in Iraq in 2004 with the 1st Cavalry Division, began with a statement of gratitude and pride for his fellow cavalrymen. I did not come

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on May 21, 2009. Bouncing around the InterWeb,

Well, not explicitly, of course. But that Senate Armed Services Committee report blaming Donald Rumsfeld for the torture of detainees in Defense Dept. custody?

Roger L. Simon of Pajamas Media and PJTV reacts to Samuel Wurzelbacher’s Christianity Today interview: It should go without saying that this view in no way

Republican Governors Association chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour spoke Friday to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg at the Washington Ideas Forum —

Like Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced an immigration bill last night just before the Senate shut down for its pre-election

Late Thursday afternoon U.S. Bruce Braley (D-IA) said that all U.S.

Last September, I was standing in James Lileks’ lawn at his 50th birthday party, a classy event that happened to overlap with the Republican National

Here’s a video of one of the better scenes from the CPAC exhibit hall: Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty hosts sumo wrestling matches that pitted America

In a remarkable display of contrition from a military officer who operates far from public visibility, Vice Adm. William McRaven, chief of the Joint Special

Jim Cramer is looking at President Obama and seeing red. Let me tell you something, we heard Lenin. There was a little snippet last week that was, ‘Now is

Earlier this week, it was Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) being targeted by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which is hoping that some liberal lawmaker

While looking up something about Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) I ran across his Wikipedia page. Either it was edited by former Gov. Pierre Pete du Pont or one of