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Chadi Moussa is a man in trouble, The New York Times reports today. He is unable to afford the mortgage on his $2.24 California mansion - and yet ineligible for

It’s very hard to have a debate with someone when your underlying assumptions are radically different. Inevitably, things will get pretty heated. That’s what

The national security adviser, upset by Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recent speech, told CNN that it’s better for military advice to come up through the chain of

At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has capitulated and decided to vote for financial regulatory reform legislation.

President Obama is expected to sign an executive order Monday ending the controversial ban on increased federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, The

This morning as I tried to draw up plays for the anemic Bengals offense -- the worst since Coach Marvin Lewis offered a glimmer of hope when he took over six

I’ve been writing a lot about this lately, but there are just so many interesting facets to the trials and tribulations of Sen. John McCain as he tries to court

Four Democratic senators are calling on BP to suspend all drilling operations in Libya so the State Department can conduct an investigation into allegations

It’s a small gesture, but during a press briefing yesterday on coordinating NATO civilian-military planning with Afghan efforts, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the

PHOENIX -- Sen. John McCain paints himself as a pro-veteran’s veteran, but his voting history tells a different story.

As Matt points out, President George W. Bush announced he wants to see the U.S. start drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and exploring the Arctic National

So says The Hill, which is reporting that the 91-year West Virginia Democrat was released from the hospital Tuesday after more than six weeks of treatment for

Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard.

The Cairo speech has eaten up most of my day, but last night, Bruce Riedel, the chairman of the Obama administration’s strategy review on Afghanistan and

In the House, the appropriations committee is marking up spending bills, which means that rhetoric about earmarks is about to ramp up. Yesterday, the House

Jim Geraghty takes issue with the president’s Washington Post op-ed, specifically the part criticizing those who think tax cuts alone will solve our

In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

When President George W. Bush wrote on February 7, 2002 that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees, he took the first step down a slippery slope of legal interpretation that he and members of his administration may come to regret.

An executive from BP will be asked to testify at a July 29 hearing on the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of organizing the 1988 bombing of

DENVER -- General Wesley Clark, whom the left feared was dissed by Barack Obama into not attending the convention, is right here, underneath the stage, in a

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on April 16, 2009. These are medieval documents,

The Michigan Messenger’s Minehaha Forman has the details: The FBI has offered Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers a plea deal involving her apparent