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What if, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) wants to know, if Gen. Stanley McChrystal thinks he’ll need additional troops for Afghanistan after another round of

Two weeks ago, Bob Woodward reported that Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, flew to Afghanistan to tell commanders not to request more

You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian

The Colorado Independent’s Ernest Luning passes along this rather remarkable quote from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), speaking earlier today at an event in

First appeared September 8, 2008 WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church,

A new Gallup poll finds, on average, Americans believe 51 cents out of every dollar the federal government spends is wasted, a new high since the question was

Documents reveal the CIA was allowed to deny detainees sleep upward of 80 to 180 hours at a time.

In the latest effort to ensure that California’s Proposition 23 is defeated, activists have purchased a number of domain names that appear to be affiliated with

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) on Tuesday staked out a role for himself in cap-and-trade policy, hosting a hearing on how

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the chamber floor this morning to question whether Elena Kagan’s close relationship with President Obama

Some people worried about the environmental degradation involved in pumping water from a spring to a truck filling station, and then sending those trucks, dozens a day, from Buena Vista to Denver to satiate the world’s seeming insatiable demand for water in little plastic bottles. Others were concerned about potential damage to the aquifer. Others thought the whole approval process was a little whack.

Here’s a sentence you don’t see much these days: A new newspaper will hit the streets Thursday.

Controversial statements and tactics by North Carolina Republicans have brought heightened attention to a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex

On Tuesday, Rep. Tim Walz joined all but one of his Minnesota DFL colleagues in support of a repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the federal government from recognizing legally married same-sex couples

Another aspect of the Obama administration’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy that went unacknowledged over the past three days’ worth of congressional hearings is

As expected, President Obama this morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into effect this