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Oh, Washington Post editorial board. When Steve Coll left the paper, did he take all his voluminous historical memory about U.S. policy to Afghanistan between

An interesting tidbit from this weekend’s New York Times article on lawyers who attempt to specialize on Supreme Court cases: Critics of such specialists argue

-To reduce the state debt in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) wants to make a drastic cut in public assistance for legal immigrants. The cut

Bloomberg had the money interview with Don Blankenship: “Whatever happened at UBB is something that needs to be figured out, but it’s not the result of my

TWI’s David Weigel is tweeting live from the Libel Lawfare Islamism conference (follow here), and he reports that Center for Security Policy President Frank

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm hopes so.

A new report commissioned by the Center for American Progress finds that oil industry contracts with universities to conduct energy research may not adequately

In his opening statement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) noted that Thurgood Marshall, despite the fact that he graduated first in his

The word from the White House and from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is unequivocal, by which the Obama administration fully supports the actions

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - Yesterday, President Obama met with members of the Domestic Policy Council to talk strategy on

Sen. George Voinovich, the two-term Republican from Ohio, announces his retirement. Michelle Malkin proclaims victory. When I think of George Voinovich, I

<div class="mini gray">Photo credit: Lauren Burke, WDCPix</div> <p>When Mike Huckabee was sworn in as governor of Arkansas in 1996,

Glenn Beck closed the 37th annual CPAC with a passionate, personal, ideological-but-not-partisan speech about his career and America’s values. For 45 minutes he

Today, the Senate overcame a key procedural hurdle to move forward on a much-needed $26.1 billion state aid bill. The provision provides $10 billion in funds

The American Independent has previously reported on the growing corporatization of the incipient medical marijuana industry at a time when medical marijuana

Jesselyn Radack at Daily Kos slams The Washington Post for its editorial yesterday praising the Senate Judiciary Committee for its highly compromised Patriot

Today, the Obama administration announced it will spend $3 billion more to help jobless homeowners. First, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is