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This is sort of sad. Lt. Scott R. Easterling, a former contractor who became a commissioned officer in 2007, has signed up with Orly Taitz’s crackpot quest for

Ah, strategic myopia. Yesterday, Ted Gistaro, a top intelligence analyst, gave a speech to the Washington Institute about Al Qaeda’s intent and capability to

Florida’s influential affiliate of the Family Research Council will be hosting GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at its annual policy awards dinner.

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson took home a load of campaign cash last week from a fundraiser held by Linda Orlans, owner of Orlans Associates Law Firm, which has been implicated in robo-signing fraud in Michigan and Massachusetts.

From @PersianKiwi just now, a terrifying escalation in the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress the protests: Baseej shooting in Azadi sq - army standing by

With a good number of reservations, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors lobby, today put its significant weight behind the health

Reports that the Obama administration will appoint the assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Bush administration, Daniel Fried, as a

LONGMONT– The right and left protesters and counter-protesters gathered here off a sprawling suburban four-lane road and around a wall-less field house at the Boulder County Fairgrounds agreed on at least two things: that the group hosting the gathering, Americans for Prosperity , is suffering an image problem and that government subsidies to oil and gas companies have got to end.

<p>Remember Donald Rumsfeld? He seems like a bad dream. And yet here he is, popping up in Washington to talk about how the U.S. needs a Ministry of

Just released from Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council: “National Security Advisor General James Jones is pleased to announce an

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had threatened to file a federal lawsuit if Democrats deemed the health care reform bill passed. In the end, of course,

Following up on Laura’s post on the Bush administration’s efforts to burrow political appointees into permanent civil service jobs: On the bright side,

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she has to live ... every day with her vote for the Iraq war, which was based on the dead wrong National Intelligence

Eric Holder has taken heat from the right, but the attorney general hopeful may face tough questions from the left during confirmation hearings on Thursday.

Yesterday, we ran a piece pointing out that there’s really nothing stopping lawmakers, congressional staffers and other government employees from using the

The Senate voted this afternoon to grant the incoming Obama administration the remaining $350 billion from the Wall Street bailout -- sans restrictions. The

Let it never be said that President Obama is cutting defense. Obama’s budget outline today doesn’t really include the defense budget. What it includes is the

NEW ULM — Flanked by New Ulm Mayor Bob Beussman, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak joined local city officials from south central Minnesota Wednesday to warn local residents about the crippling effects of potential cut to Local Government Aid (LGA) under the tax bill that Gov

By any objective telling, the Democrats have been nothing if not kind to business since Barack Obama’s election. They’ve bailed out the banks with hundreds of

Should we lift restrictions on Cuban-American family travel back to Cuba? Yes, says Clinton. Cuban-Americans are the best ambassadors for democracy, freedom

One of the more frustrating aspects of counterinsurgency is talking to the people who were recently shooting at you -- sometimes while they’re shooting at you.