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Yesterday Hamid Karzai offered Taliban leader Mullah Omar safe passage to Afghanistan for peace talks, a move that I considered a thrown gauntlet. Now Omar’s

Charles Johnson catches the Tea Party activist with the infamous N-word sign getting taken seriously by The Washington Times, which quotes him as a founder of

Charter school magnate Clark Durant is trying to chip away at Pete Hoekstra’s massive lead in the race to take on Sen. Debbie Stabenow by comparing his primary opponent to the woman they want to replace. The Grand Rapids Press reports : Speaking to reporters at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, Durant referred to the Holland Republican as a “partner” of U.S

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- I don’t blog everything that Sarah Palin writes on Facebook, but her response to Vice President Joe Biden’s jab at her energy policy -- made

As funding for the $1 billion cash for clunkers program has reportedly dried up less than one week after its launch, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Susan

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has released a letter she sent to President Obama and Attorney

This weekend, Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that it was too soon to say whether the Obama administration might revive

The Detroit Free Press reports that hospitals in Michigan are taking on a project that helps reduce the number of medically unnecessary C-sections in the state. The project “considered a national model is helping women avoid medically unnecessary C-sections and contributing to healthier outcomes for their babies, project organizers report,” according to the Free Press .

Facing one of the worst droughts in its history, many local communities in Texas are setting limits on how much water can be used for natural gas hydrofracking. Bloomberg Businessweek reports : Local water districts, which have authority to allocate water from subterranean aquifers, are adding a water-intensive production method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to some of the pumping restrictions they’re imposing on farmers and small towns. The city of Grand Prairie in the Barnett Shale in North Texas in August became the first municipality to ban the use of city water for fracking

Attorney General Eric Holder artfully skirts Bush-era legal problems facing the Department of Justice.

The race between longtime incumbent U.S. Reps

Some Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, have been calling for hearings to

A poll released this week by Bloomberg shows Texas Governor Rick Perry with a small lead (26-22) over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, with no other candidate preferred by even 10 percent of Republicans. Perry, though, is viewed favorably by only three in ten Americans while being viewed unfavorably by four in ten. Perry, at this point, trails Obama 49-40 among all voters, according to the poll.

There’s good reason to be confused about the Labor Department’s latest unemployment figures, which showed that the nation’s jobless numbers rose by 11,000 last

A Denver district judge this week rejected motions by the state of Colorado and a Canadian uranium mining company to throw out a lawsuit challenging the proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in Montrose County. Denver District Judge Brian Whitney sided with the Telluride-based Sheep Mountain Alliance, which contends the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) may have violated various state and federal laws in issuing a permit for the mill.

This morning, Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu rolled out an $8 billion weatherization program, which they hope will create 87,000 jobs,

Gov. Rick Scott has until Saturday to act on House Bill 1355, the controversial elections bill that passed the Florida Legislature along party lines over objections that it would make voting more difficult

As expected, President George W. Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill today, citing high costs and numerous giveaways to wealthy farmers. Many outside

The publicity-hungry sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., repeatedly stole headlines this year. Dubbing himself America’s Toughest Sheriff, Arpaio starred in

Drug companies have been raising prices at the fastest rate since 1992. President 2.0 Barack Obama has never used Twitter. Karl Rove rips into Obama for

We need to be buying more oil from Canada. That’s what Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) told a Canadian newspaper this weekend on a trip to the country to observe