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GUANTANAMO BAY -- I’ll be heading into the courtroom for Day 2 of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing shortly, and that means I’ll be unable to provide any updates

Byron York, covering the 2006 immigration rallies: At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators

I know I’m delirious now, because Rep. Tom Tancredo just asked if there are MS-13 gangs within the military, who are using their Iraq training when they come

If you were watching MSNBC moments ago, you may have noticed some Olympic-class logical contortions performed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s spokeswoman, Meg

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) asked Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal how he views the strategic importance of reducing civilian casualties and how he intends to reduce

If you saw me on al-Jazeera fifteen minutes ago making this point, sorry for repeating myself. But if not: Robert Gibbs said in his White House press conference

As President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, Gerard is one of the biggest mouthpieces for the oil and gas industries in the climate change debate.

Here’s one interesting tidbit from today’s conference call on the deepwater drilling moratorium. Even though the administration has decided to lift the

Controversial political stalwart Karl Rove said that he doesn’t think Iowa and New Hampshire Republican voters need worry about Democratic infiltrators in upcoming primaries or caucuses — at least not as long as the Obama 2012 campaign is being led by a nobody. Rove, who served as a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W.

Quality preschool, including easy accessibility to it, is key for any state’s quest to reform education and be a frontrunner in the classroom, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a Monday morning keynote on the first day of the Iowa Education Summit , and Iowa is no exception. “A commitment to free public preschool will pay off for Iowa,” Duncan said, amid applause.

A May 2009 video of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman praising Van Jones, which was posted by TWI yesterday, has inspired a parody video from the

I think it’s a bit above my pay grade to speculate on the broader sociological meaning of this. But for what it is worth, the arrested subject of this past

Christine O’Donnell, a longtime conservative activist who took on the thankless task of challenging Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) in 2008, is running against Rep.

The controversial Radiance Foundation is still dissatisfied with a recent NPR interview with its founder, Ryan Bomberger. Since the July 18 airing of the interview on Tell Me More , Bomberger has maintained that NPR heavily edited his portion of the interview, while preserving the words of pro-choice Rev.

GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner (right), in a 2009 photo (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) GOP Senate hopeful Adam Hasner called Occupy Wall Street supporters all over the country “anarchists,” “extremists” and “thugs” in an email to supporters today.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the self-described (sort of) freedom fighter against the Democratic majority, is rolling out the latest of his hard-right economic

Tomorrow is (probably) going to be Nuke Day in Washington, as the Obama administration releases its long-awaited Nuclear Posture Review. That’ll tee up

Andrew Ackerman at the Wall Street Journal parses the jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and finds that a full one million Americans exhausted their jobless benefits in the past year. About 8.2 million idled workers were receiving unemployment benefits as of the week ended April 9, the Labor Department said in its weekly jobless claims report.

The Associated Press is reporting that a Rapid City, S.D. doctor plans to challenge four-term Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin in the Democratic primary. Kevin

Just an addendum to Dave’s insightful post: when you see conservatives lauding President Obama’s Nobel speech or his Afghanistan policy by, say, comparing