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Here’s Mairead Maguire, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, blasting today’s surprise announcement that President Obama has been named the newest

What is it with Paul Krugman, anyway? The Nobel economist with the dour outlook is becoming the most unlikely of pop icons. First, there was, Hey Paul

The martial arts star goes to the slush pile for his new column, reprinting all of an open letter to the president from Lou Pritchett and appending his own

After a week of unwanted attention that seemed to end with him signing on to Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) bill to demand birth certificates from future

Just when you thought it was a tough time to be a banker comes this heartwarming tale of a bank executive effectively squatting in a $12 million Malibu

I’m not sure if Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has touched down in India yet, but she’s released a statement condemning last night’s bombing of an

A new poll (PDF) by Public Policy Polling shows voter opinion of Ohio’s anti-collective-bargaining law Senate Bill 5 remains extremely unfavorable. According to

Mark Kirk, the Republican senator-elect from Illinois, could be sworn in as early as Nov. 29 due to special circumstances regarding his seat, which used to

The National Organization for Marriage, a Washington, D.C.–based group that opposes rights for same-sex couples, has hired Christopher Plante to run its Minnesota operations in the run-up to a 2012 vote that would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota’s constitution. Plante is the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage Rhode Island

Time’s Michael Crowley has published a good overview of the current independent expenditure landscape heading into midterm elections. It covers mostly trodden

Mike Allen has a dizzying scoop about the American Conservative Union: The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in

The only one on the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning who says the defense budget should be on the table for President Obama’s spending freeze is a

A new report released today by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, and the law firm of

The Israeli bombardment of Gaza is in its third day, and now the Islamic University in Gaza -- which The New York Times calls a Hamas stronghold and Israel

President Obama will host this morning what’s expected to be his final meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan strategy ahead of a revision

As Adam Liptak wrote in The New York Times on Saturday, the President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department is going to have to quickly figure out what

National Association of Evangelicals is in the market for a new top lobbyist, according to The Christian Post. The job description includes a very unusual

This had been coming ever since the 2007 Nisour Square massacre, but now it’s here. From The Washington Post: The Iraqi government has informed the U.S.

I just got off the phone with Frank MacKay, state chairman of the New York Independence Party, a powerful third party which had endorsed Republican candidate

Julian Barnes reports: I don’t think there’s a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or the Congress, Pelosi

My friend J.P. Freire, the managing editor of The American Spectator, is the brains behind NewAmericanTeaParty.com. When I saw him today after Grover Norquist’s

A fascinating CNN/Opinion Research poll (PDF) shows that there really isn’t much change pre- and post-Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in how the American public

John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism adviser, has completed his review of the November shootings at Fort Hood. The White House has just released a