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The Michigan Catholic Conference is slamming the Legislature for passing a 48-month lifetime cash assistance limit without considering the impact on the 25,000 kids whose already destitute families will be kicked off aid Oct. 1.

President George W. Bush is saying that the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav is far better than the response to Katrina in 2005. The president canceled

Related to our piece today on the silence of Congress even in the face of surging gun violence, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne this morning is asking a

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s hearing on Blackwater/Paravant’s subcontract with Raytheon and the Army to train Afghan security forces has just ended,

If there were a healthy or coherent relationship between civilian and military efforts in war zones or weak states or post-conflict environments, there wouldn’t

At a Heritage Foundation luncheon today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) went off on a bit of a tangent and told conservative bloggers to check out a five-minute

Let’s see what Lou Dobbs makes of this one: turns out the crackdown on border crossings by undocumented immigrants has actually led to an increase in the

From Roxana Tiron at The Hill: Federal law enforcement officials have subpoenaed the congressional and campaign offices of Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) to get

Dave Catanese of Politico reports U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) will likely run for a fourth term in 2012 after losing the 2010 gubernatorial primary

The ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is hounding the governor even as the media spotlight (temporarily?) flits

Does a recessionary economy mean that workers must necessarily accept lower wages? Last week, The Wall Street Journal got a lot of attention for an article

We know that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), burned by voter anger over his coziness with Wall Street, received only $4,250 in

Early in today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on President-elect Obama’s Pentagon subcabinet nominees, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) doubled down on his anti-ACORN activism at today’s Big Government press conference. Video below the jump.

In the NY Times Week in Review on Sunday, Jonathan Mahler opens his piece about How to Define Terror with the story of Salim Hamdan, former driver for Osama

At the How to Take Back America conference in St. Louis, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy led two workshop sessions -- one on how to defeat attacks on sovereignty by U.N. treaties and North American Union and one on how to understand Islam.

In the final presidential debate in 1980, Ronald Reagan ensured his election by proving that he was a man the American people could feel safe with, a man whose actions wouldn’t send the world into a mass panic. Obama must do the same tonight against McCain if he wants to win the White House.

During their recent congressional testimony, Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker refused to be pinned own on the goals, mission or even the meaning of

Progressives who oppose escalation see an opportunity to change the public debate.

Remember the PreserveRaptorJobs Website? The one portraying the F-22 Raptor fighter jet as an economic engine; and one that seeks to mobilize people to write in

For more on using counterinsurgency means to counterterrorism ends, Marc Ambinder is hearing things about the White House Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review,