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Everyone remembers that on Aug. 6, 2001, while President George W. Bush was clearing brush in Texas, he received an intelligence brief warning about Al Qaeda’s

In a fairly muted online Q&A with Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio -- questions were along the lines of what can we do to stop this health care

With the GOP set to take over the House in January, I’ve been trying to pinpoint some immigration proposals -- if any exist -- that House Republicans, Senate

Before Bill Clinton secured the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, I made the longshot prediction that the noontime State Department press briefing would be

With the exit of 43 House Democrats who voted for last year’s cap-and-trade bill, environmental progress will be hard to come by.

Before there was Glenn Beck, there was John Gibson, a dyspeptic Fox News host who anchored the network’s 5 p.m. block and steadily upped his outrage against

After receiving a letter from Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who investigated Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza, to dispute an impending

The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an order late Monday morning (pdf) denying an emergency motion from the Norm Coleman campaign to stop the State Canvassing

This morning I got an email from a spokesman for Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, objecting to my characterization of him in my

The New Hampshire state representative sponsoring a bill that would repeal the state’s same-sex marriage law has decided not to pursue a constitutional

A new committee called Alaskans Standing Together is providing some major help to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her longshot write-in bid for re-election.

The Texas Congressman has a new 60-second ad spot that highlights not only Ron Paul ‘s own background in the military, but features veterans discussing the ways that Paul has honored them. The ad is embedded below: The Paul campaign has said the full ad time buy is in excess of $1 million.

Civil and immigrant rights groups have expressed outrage about a federal judge’s decision to allow many of the provisions of Alabama’s new immigration

Apropos of Friday’s queries about Gen. Raymond Odierno’s commitment to the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement that guarantees the withdrawal of all U.S.

Many legislatures have rejected ’Arizona-style’ legislation out of concern for the price tag.

Shortly after Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told a Senate panel this morning that we are regaining the initiative and insurgency

An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded

During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Andrea Merkel on Tuesday, President Obama suggested that he would like to explore with Congressional leaders the possibility of extending unemployment benefits again. Some of the steps that we took during the lame duck session, the payroll tax, the extension of unemployment insurance, the investment in — or the tax breaks for business investment in plants and equipment — all those things have helped. And one of the things that I’m going to be interested in exploring with the members of both parties in Congress is how do we continue some of these policies to make sure that we get this recovery up and running in a robust way.

Less than a week remains before Gov. Rick Perry’s Houston prayer event, and since Perry distanced himself from some controversial endorsers of The Response,