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Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) has read the Army-Marine Corps Field Manual on Counterinsurgency that Petraeus quarterbacked in 2006, and he notes that it urges

John Harwood of The New York Times has sketched an emerging scenario in which the Obama administration seeks comprehensive health care and energy reform without

This morning, the conservative Heritage Foundation rolled out an energy proposal to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, arguing that the jobs created by

Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain’s brother referred to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria as communist country, presumably for their

Bad polling news for a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls is coming out all at once. The first -- and most surprising -- item concerns Gov. Joe Manchin

A trusted defense source emails me a report from the subscription-only Inside The Pentagon newsletter that seems to herald the first defense-budget chicanery of

As Rahm Emanuel weighs his decision about whether to run for Chicago mayor, he may face opposition from at least one group: the immigrants rights community.

If there’s one rule that’s been pretty consistent throughout the ongoing debate over the appropriateness of federal earmarking, it’s that the critics usually

Ken Vogel and Michael Calderone muse on the meaning of Glenn Beck’s starring role at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which they argue marks a new

The big winner Thursday night might have been U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) -- but not because of anything he said or didn’t say during Fox News’ GOP

Todd Herman, the new media director of the Republican National Committee, avers that his Twitter comments are not statements on behalf of my employer. That’s

A budget proposal introduced by Congressional Republicans last week would end federal funding for Community Health Centers, and that, experts say, would devastate a key program that provides access to health care for thousands of Michigan residents. The proposal comes as part of a plan to fund the remainder of the current fiscal year

Analysts -- those who have worked on al-Qaeda and on other threats -- describe themselves as drinking from a firehose of information shared with the National Counterterrorism Center by the partner intelligence agencies.

State Republican leaders are staying mum in the wake of the release of emails between Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz and an operative effort backing GOP candidate and former U.S. Sen

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August jobs report Friday morning, finding that a small increase in private-sector employment of 17,000 jobs was exactly offset by a loss of 17,000 public-sector jobs. Unemployment remains unchanged at 9.1 percent. However, the U-6 measure — including involuntary part-time workers, marginally attached workers and discouraged workers — is unchanged at 16.2 percent.

The unsurprising decision in Ricci v. DeStefano is making for political fodder against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

As the Justice Department prepares to argue Thursday against Arizona’s immigration law, The Associated Press takes a look into the background of the judge who

Last-minute editing by the White House of a Department of the Interior report on the Gulf oil spill led to the false implication that the report’s

NewOrleans.com got its hands on BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill response plan. It’s 582 pages long, but I’m going to leaf through it to find items of interest.

The House leadership may not be ready to pressure embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to step down, but his colleagues are starting to amp up their