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As DeLong noted, Blackwater lost its license to operate in Iraq in 2007, after its security officers gunned down innocent civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.

At a town hall meeting last week in Florence, S.C., Sen. Jim DeMint acknowledged the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, then shot a warning flare. Democrats, he said, would have no reservations about using an outpouring of sympathy for the late senator to push for passage of a health care reform bill.

Two panel experts were called by the health and oversight subcommittees of the House Ways & Means Committee at Friday’s hearing to investigate whether,

Great reporting from Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball about the Obama administration’s debate over CIA (and maybe Joint Special Operations Command) drone strikes in

Two writers for Reuters penned a piece today proposing a program of debt forgiveness for U.S. consumers. Arguing the national economy is sluggish due to high

Ron Faucheaux’s Clarus Research Group has a poll out testing two main things: independent voters’ take on President Obama and the relative strength of possible

Politico’s Laura Rozen catches Hillary Rodham Clinton indicating to our old friend Tavis Smiley that she doesn’t envision staying on as secretary of state for

Today, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission continues its fourth round of hearings on the origins of the recession, with the current and former Treasury

Two Republican members of Congress will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss Americans United for Life’s recent report accusing Planned Parenthood

From the hordes of Tea Partiers to the prophets of Fox News, cries of scandal rocked the country this year. Only these five had no basis in reality.

UPDATED Oct. 27, 2:40 p.m. EST: Amended with a correction* and update UPDATE: The National Organization for Marriage has since removed from its website the

As I reported on Friday, a federal judge had given the Obama administration until yesterday to disclose or cite the reasons for not disclosing hundreds of

The iconoclastic conservative, who’d spent the past week attacking the way that GOP lost the health care fight, says his departure came after being asked to

It really takes an amazing amount of chutzpah for Bill Kristol to pretend he cares more about the Army than Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, and I

After the failure of the third cloture vote to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal, Senate Democrats say

Last week, The American Independent reported on the so-called “gun show loophole” that permits private gun sales without a background check in most states.

Crack intelligence reporter Erick Erickson posted that he was hearing a very credible rumor that CIA Director Leon Panetta has dispatched a resignation

Something I couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday: Ivan Oelrich, the acting president of the Federation for American Scientists, weighs in on what President

Most observers agree that Al Franken’s (DFL-Minn.) election to the U.S. Senate is not a matter of if, but when. Not so for newly minted Republican National

Here are some photos from today’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. (Click images to enlarge.) – You can

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) spokesman Brad Dayspring has responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that he’s less concerned about a long-term threat from

The benefits of longer instructional time for students were put into question this week with the published results of Chicago Public School’s state

<p>Apropos of <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/state-department">my piece on the State Department</a>, I ventured