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The Salerno army base offers a window into the hard counterinsurgency battle at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) Rep

Iran is placing extraordinary emphasis on its ballistic missile and WMD development programs. The ballistic missile infrastructure in Iran is now more

New unemployment claims took their first significant drop in nearly four months last week, dipping below 400,000 for the first time since April with 398,000 new claims. The four week average stands at 413,750.

New Mexico will end a food stamp supplement for elderly and disabled residents, according to the Associated Press . The cuts come just as Congress is considering cuts to the food stamp program even as a record-high amount of people are receiving the benefits. The AP reports that the Human Services Department will stop the supplement on July 1 because there is no money in the state budget for the program.

COMMENTARY Washington again placed bets on the wrong foreign leaders. Is personal diplomacy a farce?

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) plans to celebrate Tuesday whether or not he wins his party’s primary. Democrats decline to host town halls in an attempt to

Senate leaders are only too aware that, amidst the nation’s jobs crisis, the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits is less than two weeks away.

The full agenda for the Sept. 12 Tea Party march on Washington is up at the event’s Website. Co-sponsored by FreedomWorks and a constellation of conservative

Today Alabamans go to the polls, again, to determine the Republican candidate for governor after a June 1 primary forced a runoff between Bradley Byrne, a

GOP candidate U.S.

Those who view the U.S. military command in Iraq as being an outpost of opposition to President Obama’s withdrawal plans would have an interesting time with

Two weeks ago, I talked to independent Republican groups and people working on the special congressional election in New York’s 20th Congressional District and

The 2004 report into the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program from then-Inspector General John Helgerson is becoming something of a white whale for the ACLU.

I don’t know what he’ll say, but Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg probably wouldn’t address an audience convened by the Obama administration’s shadow

Believe it: photographs from the Project on Government Oversight that don’t show contractors behaving in a sexually crude manner. Instead, in a letter

Iowa political leaders generally agree religion sometimes gets a bad name because of how politicians use it.

Mary’s blog post this morning on The Washington Post’s report today that Fannie Mae is going to pay bonuses to four top executives offers a test of the

Democratic leaders have been busy patting themselves on the back this morning following the tentative deal struck last night between liberal and conservative

The federal government’s answer to the furor over AIG’s payments of ridiculous multi-million dollar bonuses to the same executives who helped drive the company