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The honeymoon period that most new presidents enjoy has probably been voided this time around. President Barack Obama will face a financial crisis that only threatens to become more severe at the start of 2009. And there are no simple fixes.

No other single intelligence reporter/analyst drives me as bonkers as David Ignatius. Sometimes his Washington Post columns are straight-up brilliant, since

Source: Flickr, jimmywayne The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens Board unanimously approved water quality permits for an expansion of a taconite facility on the Iron Range Tuesday. The permits leave only one more step before the expansion , which will cost about $300 million, create 120 permanent jobs and increase the capacity of the plant, according to Keetac owner, U.S.

Don’t expect any charitable feelings around the holidays. According to a new Rasmussen national telephone survey, 58 percent of U.S. voters say they’d support

Yesterday, an unlikely message popped up in my inbox, from the U.S.-African Chamber of Commerce. Responding to Madonna’s latest controversial forays into the

Here’s one of the cheerier conservative videos of the day: Myron Ebell and Lee Doren of the energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute hound the

The National Institutes of Health in Washington D.C. announced Thursday that a study of the impact of anti-retroviral medications on the infectiousness of those infected with the virus found the medications cut infections by 96 percent. The study confirmed a determination by the Swiss High Court several years ago

The Iranians have so far greeted every Obama administration overture to them with tepid-to-hostile reactions. Without reading too much into it -- Mahmoud

CNN picks up on a mostly overlooked component of the mortgage crisis that TWI has been following: Growing numbers of trashed and abandoned bank-owned foreclosed

Hey, remember earlier this week when we discussed how to read a troop-increase announcement? The troop numbers that are typically announced are combat troops

Some more good stuff from yesterday’s conference call with Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Gen. James Cartwright, the Joint Chiefs vice chairman. Noah Shachtman

Today the Commission on Presidential Debates launched an online toolset through MySpace, in a dedicated portal called MyDebates.org. Organizers say this is

Over at The National Review, Josh Barro has a good blog post on extending the unemployment insurance system during sustained periods of high joblessness. I am

I’m not sure Alex Burns is right when he reports that President Barack Obama took direct aim at the anti-tax ’tea party’ demonstrations in Missouri. Those

Last week I reported -- ok, ok, fine, Michael Gordon at The New York Times scooped me by 20 minutes -- that a senior military liaison to the Iraqi security

IF you read the blog of Glenn Reynolds, the libertarian-leaning Instapundit who reigns over the right-ish blogosphere with a carpal-tunnelled fist, you see

J.D. Hayworth, a former Arizona Republican congressman who went down to a narrow defeat in 2006, now hosts a radio show on KFYI 550. Today he interviewed Orly

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is speaking to the National Rifle Association today, using his remarks to try and define the Supreme Court

Rep. Eric Swafford, the Tennessee Republican state legislator who has demanded President Obama’s birth certificate and passport records, has become a

Breaking a week-long silence, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor this afternoon to weigh in on last week’s explosion that killed 29 miners