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You’re not going to believe this, but Scott Carney’s got a post up at Danger Room interviewing Somali pirates on their strategies for hijacking cargo ships,

That didn’t take long. On the first day of the 111th Congress, House Democrats are already targeting the last-minute regulations passed down by the Bush

Last week, U.S. Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced H.R. 937, which was submitted with the curious name, “The Rising Tides Act of 2011.” The

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain will be in the Sunshine State this week, for stops in both Tampa and Sanford.

The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill -- passed out of Congress yesterday and headed for President Obama’s desk next week -- runs for 2,300 pages,

Want some details about how the Navy SEALs took down the pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage? Christian Lowe has some good enlightened speculation

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral argument this morning in a case brought by the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of a woman who was arrested for being too poor to pay child support. In a press release, the ACLU says: The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic are representing Selesa Likine, who lost her job and custody of her three children after being diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Investigators have determined that Bill Sparkman, the census worker who was found dead with an anti-federal government message scrawled on his body, committed

The New York Times: For the first time, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spoken out against plans to stage the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused

For the past few weeks, anti-abortion rights organizations and news services have been advertising a webcast featuring one of the stars of the resurgent

Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a

The Senate is set (in a few minutes) to vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just took to the

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer (Pic via ice.gov) The Miami-Dade County Commission today will consider a resolution urging the state Legislature not to pass legislation related to immigration, “while supporting comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level.” Sponsored by Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, the resolution (.pdf) states “Miami-Dade County has the most diverse population in the State of Florida, and one of the most diverse populations in the U.S.” “65 percent of the residents of Miami-Dade County are Hispanic or Latino.” “Of the non-Hispanic population, 17 percent are White and 17 percent are African American or Black with a significant part being of Caribbean descent.” “Approximately one-half of the people living in Miami-Dade County were born in another country, with the most common countries of origin being Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Haiti, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Jamaica.” “Among people at least five years old living in Miami-Dade County in 2010, 71 percent spoke a language other than English at home, with 88 percent speaking Spanish and 12 percent speaking some other language.” “Protecting the people of Miami-Dade County from unnecessary and unwarranted requests for immigration documents is of paramount importance.” The E-Verify logo (Pic via do.washk12.org) The resolution adds that during the 2011 session, the Florida Senate considered Senate Bill 2040, which “would have required immigration checks of inmates and also would have required employers to use the federal system to verify immigration status,” while the “House’s bill, HB 7189, would have provided for immigration checks when a person is under a criminal investigation and there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal immigrant.” The Florida Legislature failed to pass both bills mentioned, which would also have made programs such as Secure Communities a permanent part of law enforcement in Florida. Problems with Secure Communities , a federal immigration enforcement program, has already prompted elected officials from other states to opt out of the program. The program counts the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and all of Florida’s counties (.pdf) as participants. In early August, Miami-Dade’s legislative delegation discussed immigration reform — a signal that the controversial issue will be important in Florida’s 2012 legislative session

The Iowa Independent reports that in his latest Human Events column, action-movie star and karate guy Chuck Norris has endorsed Bob Vander Plaats, a Sioux City

When I started calling around Tuesday to the Departments of State and Defense about the prospective loss of Kyrgyzstan’s Manas air base, the critical facility

Today, Automatic Data Processing, or ADP, which processes payrolls for private companies, said that the private sector added 55,000 jobs to payroll in May --

I spent the early afternoon at the March for Life, the annual rally held on the National Mall to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, to see how the 48-hour-old