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Bill Clinton wishes the best for a liberated Lil Wayne... ...and Kanye West sympathizes with Bush about being called a racist. Bush says he authorized

MARION — When told by an audience member that he should tell Iowans urging other competitors to hop into the 2012 GOP presidential contest to read his book and take another look at his record, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty brushed it off. Tim Pawlenty meets with Iowans at the Marion Public Library before beginning his opening remarks

The Iraqi government shows signs of increasing impatience with Blackwater guards getting hired by other private security firms: A top Iraqi official said

Some good reading today in The Washington Post, which got its hands on transcripts depicting reactions from some AIG employees when their bonuses were

The firm faces a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad.

Economist Dean Baker isn’t happy about seeing people like Larry Summers and Robert Rubin surrounding President-elect Barack Obama as he consults experts on the

Joe Miller ad says Murkowski is not a witch, but might be Voldemort. Liberal? It might be genetics. Obama says he might evolve his same-sex marriage

Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument. It relieves the U.S. from dependency on foreign oil, some reports say, and it reduces the pollution spewed out the tailpipe

In my piece a few weeks ago about the rudderlessness of GOP foreign policy, I mentioned a National Journal item reporting that several of the neoconservative

During a recent retreat featuring a cast of influential conservatives, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his support for a controversial Ohio bill seeking to

Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kervorkian has died at the age of 83 after a long battle with kidney and heart problems. His attorney Mayer Morganroth tells the Free Press that Kervorkian died as the result of “pulmonary thrombosis when a blood clot from his leg broke free and lodged in his heart.” Kervorkian made headlines in the 90s when he assisted or was present at 130 suicides of terminally ill residents of the state. That advocacy led to a 1999 conviction on second degree murder charges.

Check out this authentic-frontier-gibberish from Bernard Henri-Levy: From these three certainties, considered together, arises a clear obligation: aiding and

A new peer-reviewed study published by the National Academy of Sciences shows a link between hydrofracking wells to obtain natural gas and contamination of drinking water supplies — particularly with methane, which can even make drinking water flammable. ProPublica reports : For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire… The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University

According to credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, Ohio’s decision to overturn its contentious anti-collective-bargaining law will have little effect on its

When President Barack Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress to unveil steps for job creation and the economy, there’s only one thing he needs to remember: go big.

Ben Smith has a rose-colored look at a possible Senate run in New York by Mort Zuckerman, the 72-year-old media mogul and pundit who seems interested in Sen.

Just days after American Forces launched a targeted assault that killed Osama Bin Laden, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet asked nominees for counterterrorism posts in the Obama Administration how Bin Laden’s death would affect the flow of financing to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and how terrorist network overlap might complicate U.S

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in conjunction with anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council, an