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Frank Deffer, assistant inspector general for the department of Homeland Security, told Congress yesterday that the federal government is not prepared to handle

The judiciary committee hearing seemed a little backward -- with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy calling for a truth commission and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter pushing for a full-fledged prosecution.

PIMCO is taking Treasury’s money and running.

Speaking of Rick Santelli, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart takes him on. (Santelli bailed out on an invitation to appear personally, as Jon Stewart put

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

Rasmussen Reports gins up the does President Obama hate America and love Europe controversy — which doesn’t seem to be, er, denting Obama’s improving poll

Here’s another point I should have made in my piece earlier today: Just because President Obama’s Justice Department has been asserting a remarkably broad,

While having a mostly-unrelated conversation with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), I asked whether the congressman had watched Rick Santelli on CNBC last week,

Among the most contentious questions facing Senate Finance Committee members this week revolves around how much flexibility the states should have to set their

Collier County’s Planned Parenthood is scheduled to hold a workshop April 28 with Catholics for Choice — a pro-choice Catholic organization that “supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health.” Since the workshop was announced, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League and the Diocese of Venice in Florida have both publicly stated their disapproval, with the former accusing Catholics for Choice of working to “champion child abuse in the womb.” # Donohue released a press release yesterday saying that Catholics for Choice’s central message that “‘you can be prochoice and Catholic’–carries as much credibility as saying you can be pro-genocide and Catholic”: # Catholics for Choice has twice been condemned by the bishops’ conference as a fraud–there is nothing Catholic about it. Indeed, it has never raised as much as a dime from practicing Catholics, relying almost exclusively on donations from the Ford Foundation and other establishment groups.

What’s going on with the Afghanistan insurgent-reconciliation process? Last month, the Kabul government seemed disinclined to deal with the leadership of the

After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Russia have agreed on a wide-ranging series of mutual reductions in their massive nuclear arsenals. Arms control

A friend passes on a copy of the inaugural issue of The Centurion, the conservative paper James O’Keefe started at Rutgers University -- before he worked for a

Two other big results for the energy/climate crowd. First, Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is projected to beat Republican John Raese in the West Virginia Senate race.

With the advent of new credit card regulations designed to keep credit card companies from engaging in the most predatory practices, the companies are very,

While there’s certainly no longer any chance that the DISCLOSE Act, which fell short of overcoming a GOP filibuster by just one vote the other week in the

It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows these things that President-elect Barack Obama today chose as the new attorney general his campaign co-chair

I noticed last week that the Afghan Defense Minister, Ahdul Rahim Wardak, and the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, signed

In this installment, he asks the president to set him on fire (Video after the jump).