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Thirty years into the epidemic, the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday launched the first ever congressional HIV/AIDS caucus. According to the National Minority AIDS Council , “the Caucus will examine methods by which the United States can maintain global leadership in the response to this 30 year epidemic.” Given the “estimated 56,000 new HIV infections each year,” the Minority AIDS Council said the HIV/AIDS caucus will monitor the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and seek financing for HIV/AIDS programs

Dr. Howard Fuller, a longtime advocate for school choice options in inner cities who recently came out against aggressive voucher expansion in his home state of

A new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that low-income Latino immigrants face increasing hostility as they fill low-wage jobs in

<div class="mini gray">photo credit: Lauren Burke, wdcpix</div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Immigration was to be the

A statement just in from the Club for Growth’s head honcho Pat Toomey. As this disastrous recession worsens, I have become increasingly concerned about the

The news is already abuzz with the start of the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the United States Supreme

This is sort of sad. Lt. Scott R. Easterling, a former contractor who became a commissioned officer in 2007, has signed up with Orly Taitz’s crackpot quest for

The Justice Department on Thursday again delayed disclosure of three critical legal memos written by Steven Bradbury, then a lawyer in the Justice Department’s

Leadership in the U.S.

Ah, strategic myopia. Yesterday, Ted Gistaro, a top intelligence analyst, gave a speech to the Washington Institute about Al Qaeda’s intent and capability to

Florida’s influential affiliate of the Family Research Council will be hosting GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., at its annual policy awards dinner.

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson took home a load of campaign cash last week from a fundraiser held by Linda Orlans, owner of Orlans Associates Law Firm, which has been implicated in robo-signing fraud in Michigan and Massachusetts.

From @PersianKiwi just now, a terrifying escalation in the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress the protests: Baseej shooting in Azadi sq - army standing by

With a good number of reservations, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors lobby, today put its significant weight behind the health

<p>Remember Donald Rumsfeld? He seems like a bad dream. And yet here he is, popping up in Washington to talk about how the U.S. needs a Ministry of

Just released from Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National Security Council: “National Security Advisor General James Jones is pleased to announce an

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had threatened to file a federal lawsuit if Democrats deemed the health care reform bill passed. In the end, of course,

Eric Holder has taken heat from the right, but the attorney general hopeful may face tough questions from the left during confirmation hearings on Thursday.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she has to live ... every day with her vote for the Iraq war, which was based on the dead wrong National Intelligence

One of the more frustrating aspects of counterinsurgency is talking to the people who were recently shooting at you -- sometimes while they’re shooting at you.

Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), the outspoken chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the panel