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I suppose Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s heart is in the right place, but, um. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday the Western military

Over at the Weekly Standard, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Joshua D. Goodman have a piece purporting to give advice about how to export the Anbar Awakening --

You may have thought that you had heard the last of him after his appearance on The View, but it looks like Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is back in the news.

Whoever wins the Republican National Committee chairmanship today might want to tweak the party’s Website. Unless, of course, he wants voters to think George

As the Senate awaits the cap-and-trade bill expected to be released sometime before the end of September, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is looking for ways to get

As predicted this morning, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who was ousted in a landslide 2006 win by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), used his prebuttal to

In 2005, a group of toxicologists published a study suggesting that mothers whose urine contained high levels of an important component of plastics were

Despite petitions from women’s rights groups and emails from customers, department store chain Dillard’s is proceeding with sponsoring a second fundraiser with

Today, Bloomberg’s Amity Shlaes has an evocative and delightfully wrongheaded column on the best way to police and regulate markets. She cites the efforts to

As chairman of the House oversight committee, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) uncovered critical information about the worst reported abuses of power in the Bush administration.

Apparently Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) remarks to CNN about waiting until the Afghan election is sorted out before committing more U.S. troops was Obama

In the spirit of self-criticism, something that I see my New START coverage has taken for granted is the support of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the leading

The oil and gas industry’s water needs may be just a sliver of all the water use across Texas — less than one percent, according to one recent study — but

Some blunt talk in a local news interview from Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), tying in to my story from last night on how Republicans are trying to make Ted Kennedy’s

The endlessly repeated remark that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made in speeches and law review articles that she would hope that a wise Latina woman,

With federal lawmakers on recess and unlikely to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB) — the current reiteration of the decades-old Early and Secondary

From the anti-AIG bonus tax statement of Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who is no one’s idea of a disloyal Republican: The blame for these bonuses rests solely

After meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the White House today, President Obama issued a directive giving Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Members of Congress jockey to take credit for consumer-friendly legislation, though the Fed already applied the same rules.

The $700 billion bank bailout was supposed to stabilize banks and get them lending again. However, some of the recipients seem more interested in rallying big