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Combined with a recent congressional proposal to delay a troop request, the options request might allow President Obama to avoid the politically thorny question of ordering a second escalation of U.S. forces in Afghanistan this year.

Matthew Vadum of the union-skeptic Capital Research Center makes it: It makes perfect sense that President Obama has appointed left-wing newsman Tom Brokaw to

Am I crazy or is White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs daring former Vice President Dick Cheney to keep denouncing the Obama administration? Clip after the

Two separate votes. Two high-profile legislative reforms, wrapped together, are on their way to the White House for a signature. The first installs sweeping

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, one of the Obama administration’s most influential officials shaping Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, will

Kenneth Feinberg will take over BP’s claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill on Aug. 23. As that date fast approaches, Feinberg is rounding out his

In a speech this morning at Atlanta Technical College, Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said that the Federal Reserve will

For the past 82 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- in its reporting of national crime statistics -- has not recognized that men can be raped, that

I need you Charlotte! I need you North Carolina! thundered Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday, addressing 15,000 people who gathered to hear him in this bright red

That’s according to Orly Taitz, the attorney for Maj. Stefan F. Cook. A day after he made news for asking not to be sent to Afghanistan unless President Barack

Greg Sargent reports that Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is calling out Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, for implying to The Washington Post

After being unsure how long it would take to train a 400,000-soldier Afghan Army, I started calling around to experts, and in the process it was gingerly

Palau’s decision to accept the 17 Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay, whom the United States and numerous other countries refused to take, may have been

Following up on my piece today on the increasing odds of a utilities-only carbon cap -- particularly given a supportive statement from swing Sen. Olympia Snowe

Yet another letter to Congress opposing the Waxman-Markey climate bill has been revealed to be a fake. The letter, the 14th confirmed forgery, claims to be from

University of Chicago economist and New York Times Economix contributor Casey Mulligan does not really believe there was a housing bubble. He has written a

In my piece yesterday I mention several big-ticket defense platforms beloved by the military services that have featured chronic cost-overruns. One of them is a

The senior senator from Arizona ends weeks of speculation about his Supreme Court vote with a lengthy floor statement explaining that he’ll vote no. Sniping

People who have struck out looking for jobs, like Michele Walker of Pennsylvania, are dropped from the nation’s labor force, even if they desperately want work.

Another principle most participants in the Future of Housing Finance Treasury Department conference agreed on: The country needs more, better rental housing.