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Expanded settlements in East Jerusalem are an insult to the United States, says the secretary of state.

Here’s something that’s sure to get under environmentalists’ skin. Chevron announced yesterday that it plans to develop two Gulf of Mexico oil fields in waters

Health care is a question not only of ideology, but also of geography. Obama goes to Denmark to pitch Chicago’s Olympics bid. As the Senate Finance

Daniel Gross at Slate checks in with a timely piece reminding us that people earn $250,000 or so a year are, in fact, rich. Gross feels the need to explain this

According to news reports over the weekend, the relentless Spanish judge and human rights prosecutor, Baltasar Garzon, who first came to international attention

Rep. Michele Bachmann lashed out at First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday over her promotion of breastfeeding, particularly among black women, to curb obesity. On Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Bachmann said that Obama’s campaign — and an IRS change that makes breast pumps tax deductible — constituted a “nanny state” and that it was part of her “hard left agenda.” Michelle Obama said last week , “We’re working to promote breastfeeding, especially in the black community, where 40 per cent of our babies never get breastfed at all, even in the first weeks of life, and we know that babies that are breastfed are less likely to be obese as children.” The first lady wants to encourage employers to be more open to women who are breastfeeding.

Now that I’ve praised Defense Secretary Robert Gates, let me highlight an issue on which he’s taking a lot of heat from progressives. Gates has relaxed

During back-to-back speeches in Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Ron Paul and Texas Gov. Rick Perry stuck to their trademark talking points, displaying two distinct

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is just now announcing the details of the administration’s bank bailout plan, but Naked Capitalism already has a verdict -

According to analysis by the National Women’s Law Center of the 2010 Census information, “record numbers of women were living in poverty — and extreme poverty” in 2010. According to the analysis : The poverty rate among women climbed to 14.5 percent in 2010 from 13.9 percent in 2009, the highest in 17 years. The extreme poverty rate among women climbed to 6.3 percent in 2010 from 5.9 percent in 2009, the highest rate ever recorded

Massey CEO Don Blankenship is poised to testify before a Senate funding panel this afternoon. That hasn’t happened yet, but Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) is

Last week I reported that Doug Wilson, a veteran of public diplomacy efforts at the defunct U.S. Information Agency and the Pentagon, was passed over for the

The top eight spenders in the financial industry alone spent nearly $30 million to lobby Capitol Hill last year, according to Nathaniel Popper of the Los

The Las Conchas fire has now burned more than 80,000 acres as of Wednesday night, leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory closed through at least Friday. LANL says that no fires are burning within its 36 square miles of land, and fire crews are working on thinning fuels and improving existing fire roads.

GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Numbers USA — an organization that supports “Attrition Through Enforcement” immigration policy and wants “lower immigration levels” — blames Rick Perry’s results in the Florida straw poll on his weak stance on immigration enforcement. Numbers USA, which supports mandatory E-Verfiy, writes : Not by design, Texas Gov

On the day Eric Massa resigned from the House, he refunded $112,000 in campaign donations, according to the Federal Election Commission. More than half of those

See the related story here. In the third quarter of 2008, some 765,558 American properties received default notices or were in foreclosure. While Fannie

The U.S. government tried to get Binyam Mohamed -- the British resident who was held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for four years and allegedly

Under newly proposed legislation, the federal government would no longer fund projects that only teach sex education in the context of abstinence only until