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Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was

Two Minnesota lawmakers are attending a conference hosted by a controversial corporate nonprofit that critics say allows corporations unrestricted access to state lawmakers, as well as the ability to draft bills without public disclosure. State Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer (R-Big Lake) is the state co-chair of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Minnesota.

I asked Rob Ryan, a spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, if his campaign would ask the deceptive Common Sense for America ad to be

Moments ago, the Senate adjourned for a two-week-long spring recess. The last act of business was to schedule a cloture vote on a House-passed measure to extend

As reported on Monday, the Pentagon didn’t embrace Stuart Bowen’s proposal to create a new agency -- the U.S. Office of Contingency Operations -- to help plan

Two weeks ago I noted that the U.S. military signed its last checks to the former insurgents known as the Sons of Iraq or the Awakening Councils. The program --

The editors of RedState.com are telling Republican National Committee members that if they can’t support Ken Blackwell, they should re-elect Mike Duncan. In

There’s not much to report in the NY-23 absentee ballot count, where Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman continues to gain votes at a much, much slower

The conservative group is going back into the fray, raising its total investment in the NY-23 special election to $550,000.

Three days after being released to the public, the new book by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) has made it into the top five on Amazon.com for bestselling

The news that former congressman and President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget director Rob Portman might run for Senate in Ohio is lighting up

Everyone’s favorite radical transnationalist, the Shiite cleric Harold Koh, will have his confirmation hearing to become State Department legal adviser

Obviously I watched Glenn Reynolds’ American Tea Party interview with Publius Pundit blogger Robert Mayer as soon as I could. I’ve been familiar with Publius

Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, is fighting for its legal right to declare bankruptcy as state lawmakers try to finalize a bill that would make doing so

That’s how much Scott Brown is reportedly still raising from online donors, a day after Jon Ward of the Daily Caller broke the news of the fundraising

A three judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and granted standing to a coalition of human rights groups suing the government over the 2008 FISA amendments. You can read the full ruling here

Just as soon as I finish blogging about how probable-new-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Janine Davidson is all about smoother civilian-military

Here are some of the shutdown-related news items that made headlines this weekend: • A total of 138 of the state’s legislators have continued to receive pay during the state government shutdown, the Star Tribune reported. Before the shutdown began, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton said he wouldn’t accept pay in the event of a shutdown.

Michael Patrick Leahy caps off Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava’s really bad day Tuesday by talking to Oneida County, N.Y., GOP chairman George Joseph, who

Web Ecoist showcases 20 of the World’s Weirdest Endangered Species today with some fantastic photos of such exotic creatures as the Solenodon (not a

Sen. Barack Obama’s convention speech may seem like old news, as Americans worry about Hurricane Gustav and the political class focuses on Gov. Sarah Palin and

Good for The New York Times and reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, who’ve modified their initial phrasing in today’s piece about Guantanamo so as not to presume that