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Registan’s Josh Foust is at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan -- hopefully he’ll find the Korean BBQ dining facility that I missed -- and he has a fascinating

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Former congressional candidate and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh was arrested this weekend after dancing at Jefferson Memorial.

In a last-minute scramble yesterday, Planned Parenthood’s clinic located in Overland Park was granted a license from a Kansas state agency allowing the clinic to continue providing legal abortion services. # The Planned Parenthood clinic was one of the last three clinics operating in the state until a new law went into effect today

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr Union members who have been locked out from American Crystal Sugar plants since the start of August rejected the company’s most recent offer in a vote Tuesday.

I’ve been tracking the progress of Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009, the legislation that would kill the salaries

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, is facing accusations that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper and

With roughly an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama struck a deal to avoid a shutdown of the federal government — at least for this week.

The House on Friday approved legislation to extend the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits through November. It does not create new

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Everyone in the blogosphere -- Glenn, I’m looking in your direction -- who may have thought that John Brennan was kneecapped just because he didn’t become CIA

A system that protects southeast Michigan water systems by monitoring for chemical contamination in Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair and Detroit rivers may shut down because of a lack of funding.

Five former Treasury secretaries support the Volcker Rule to separate banks’ risky trading from their commercial banking operations. Social networking theory

The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to 11,000 to 445,000 this week, the Labor Department reported this morning. Economists had

Declining numbers of Pennsylvania Republicans and anger at party moderates have made backers of Pat Toomey confident they can defeat the five-term senator.

Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) suggestion that the climate bill being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) might be introduced as

Sure, it’s probably too little, too late. But blownmortgage.com reports that insurers are finally saying no to Liar Loans, which are mortgages that allowed

Alissa J. Rubin has a great story in The New York Times today about a crucial issue in Iraq (which some wags are starting to call the Forgotten War): an

<p>Hello, my name is Allison Silver. I’m the editor of <em>The Washington Independent</em>. I’ve been involved in analysis and commentary in

It goes to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was asked on a conference call about reports that Smartronix.com will get an $18 million contract to rebuild

For all his talk about how he doesn’t care about opinion polls, former Vice President Dick Cheney is narcissistically incapable of criticizing President Obama

Glenn Beck, one-time shock jock now wildly emotive and popular TV political conspiracy theorist, is airing his last regular show on the Fox network tonight. He plans to stride from the Fox studio after his nightly show to the home of his new “GBTV” outlet to do a post-Fox interview– not with any media talking head but with regular people who will participate in a live Q&A. To hear GB talk about his new venture, it’s going to be typically low key and free of grandiose aspirations