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It might be this, from Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), on why he’s still wavering on the Senate race that he ruled out last year. o do that, I’d have to give up the

Here’s a portion of a press release issued by Said Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Washington, to mark the recent rise in U.S. military fatalities in his

David Rivkin and Lee Casey are an op-ed-writing team of former GOP legal officials who defend practically every terrorism-related policy pushed by the Bush

Swift Communications newspapers in Colorado will soon ask online readers to pay for access to content. The Carson City, Nevada-based company, which owns a slew of publications in Colorado and is sometimes mocked for its “ McMountain News ” mass-production publishing style, has already started erecting paywalls at publications elsewhere and will likely begin charging customers here next year

First appeared December 12, 2008 As I wrote on Wednesday, there are already several lawsuits from torture victims pending against the United States, and

A recent study of sexually-active women in California finds that socioeconomic status does not fully explain why certain groups of women in the Golden State use

Tory Newmeyer confirms that Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) will resign from Congress this afternoon, ending any drama over whether he would stick around to help block

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder says Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate and energy policy adviser, is a plausible candidate to become White House chief of

A spokeswoman for Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration said yesterday in a statement to The Florida Independent that it believes Florida’s plan to allow Medicaid providers the option of not providing family planning “is in compliance with federal requirements.” # The agency is currently in charge of writing up proposals of Florida’s Medicaid reform program to show the federal government for approval. The agency is not expressing any concerns that the federal government might strike down an opt-out provision for family planning . # This past legislative session, the state Legislature added a provision to its Medicaid overhaul that allows Medicaid providers to choose to not provide family planning services for “moral or religious” reasons, as requested by Florida Catholic Services

Michael Mukasey, the highest legal official in the land: "the Vice President is obviously one of the close advisers to the president and is within the

Citigroup is selling new mortgage-backed securities for the first time in two years. The company expects the mortgages to be rated AAA. But, BusinessWeek

The day after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services upheld the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include contraception in its list of

As the IRS continues to expand audits demanding millions of dollars in back taxes from medical marijuana dispensaries across California, many dispensaries are

The Orlando Sentinel is calling on Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) to withdraw his bill (now co-sponsored by 10 other House Republicans) demanding proof of citizenship

Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this morning that he’d met with Vice President Joe Biden, who was in Phoenix fundraising for Democratic

Obama to The New York Times: Mr. Obama said on the campaign trail last year that the possibility of breaking away some elements of the Taliban

A new database highlights the hand-in-glove relationship between private organizations and the Defense Department that has watchdog groups concerned.

Starting on Sept. 1, when combat troops depart Iraq and 50,000 training/advisory troops remain, the war once known as Operation Iraqi Freedom will become

Newsweek has intelligently re-posted the transcript of an interview Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar -- the captured Taliban leader -- granted the magazine late last