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Don Blankenship has never been accused of being genteel. Still, you’d think that even the pugnacious CEO of Massey Energy would recognize the disadvantages

The president of the Center for a New American Security, John Nagl, has an op-ed in the New York Daily News arguing against despair for the Afghanistan war.

So let’s just say for the sake of argument that you’ve got a military severely overtaxed by multiple combat deployments and practically certain to experience at

I wouldn’t normally flag a policy proposal by a car reviewer, but Dan Neil’s piece in The Los Angeles Times today deserves mention. With a few nifty

Last seen issuing racial epithets at Barack Obama in order to preserve Al Qaeda’s crumbling narrative, Ayman al-Zawahiri is under attack from a former jihadist

There’s a major generation gap in the public’s concerns about the environment -- one that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel hopes to capitalize on in

TWI’s David Weigel went on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about his reporting on Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream

During her speech at the Iowa-based Family Leader on Friday, potential presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann made a bold claim before the gathering of social conservatives: Sen.

Ken Vogel previews CPAC by highlighting the new power and prominence of people like Erick Erickson of RedState, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, and

TWI parses the myriad stimulus proposals and quizzed economists about which they expect the Obama administration and Congress use in their attempt to turn around the U.S. economy.

Turns out, quite a lot of money. We mentioned here last week that no fewer than 30 Senate Democrats are urging chamber leaders to include a public insurance

Greg Sargent hears something similar to what I’m hearing about Republican plans for a possible Democratic push to pass elements of health care reform through

As I reported last week, it’s still unclear what consumers may do now that oil and gasoline prices have plummeted. A bit of news from TradingMarkets.com shows

Despite the easy media and think-tank cynicism about the irrelevance of National Security Strategies -- quick, what did George H.W. Bush say? -- presidents

As every lawyer knows, language matters. Bill Clinton was famously impeached because his definition of “sexual relations” didn’t include oral sex – a

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) has uploaded the video of her press conference with Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Paul Broun

Some people foolishly think that Washington’s recent high-profile effort to steer, subsidize and protect the American financial sector is the beginning of

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