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Admiral William Fallon, the bulwark between Bush and a war with Iran, is resigning as head of U.S. Central Command. According to the tidbit I just saw on CNN,

While everyone’s railing about the incredibly nasty speech by former Vice President Dick Cheney this morning -- who takes credit for preventing terrorist

There wasn’t a great deal of fanfare last week when U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley released a three-year-long committee staff review of the financial activities of several media-based ministries and churches, but that is likely because the paper offers no concrete steps forward.

A picture is emerging of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who murdered seven CIA agents and Blackwater contractors in Khost Province

An Arizona company, sued in June by Attorney General Tom Miller , has been barred from all future telemarketing and mail solicitations in Iowa because it used falsehoods about raising money for those with disabilities to elicit funds from state residents. District Court Judge Brad McCall earlier ordered Phoenix-based Americans with Disabilities, L.L.C., a for-profit company, and its owner, Dale R. Sieck, from future telephone and mail solicitations to Iowa consumers

Jan Markell, an end-times preacher and longtime friend of Michele Bachmann, defended anti-Islam statements by Lynne Torgerson, Rep. Keith Ellison’s first announced challenger for the 2012 election. In late-June, Torgerson launched her campaign at Tea Party Nation by calling Ellison a “radical Islamist” who “fails to oppose banning Islamic Sharia law in the United States.” Ellison responded by accusing her of running a campaign “based on hate, division, and fear.” In an interview on Friday, Markell defended Torgerson

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, penned an op-ed in Politico today in which he called for passage

Up to 11,000 refugees will lose access to federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments next week after an eligibility extension begins to run out, The

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today that it’s important to work closely with industry, scientists and other stakeholders to improve the technology used to

Phil Klein has the ultra-Shermanesque statement (which cites Sherman!), made in New Hampshire last night by the Centcom commander: I thought I’d said no

The tripartisan group of senators crafting climate legislation -- John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) -- plan to release

Three immigrant brothers were sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for their roles in a murky plot to kill military personnel, maybe at the Fort Dix army post in

There is little doubt of the continued fluidity within the GOP field, and Iowa — as home to fiscal and social conservatives searching for an ideal candidate — remains one of the best places (if not the best) to ride the roller coaster of the 2012 Republican nomination and presidential election. Our 14th edition of the GOP Power Rankings is compiled in the same way as our first was in March. We rely on the opinions and predictions of Iowans — academics, grassroots activists, political reporters and consultants.

Photo: John Steven Fernandez, Flickr Some teachers at Anoka-Hennepin School District have failed a teachers test because they refused to affirm that the district’s policy limiting discussions of LGBT issues in the district’s schools is intended to make “students feel safe.” The district’s policy is at the heart of a culture war in the district and is the subject of a lawsuit by six students and their parents who say the district has not taken appropriate steps to prevent bullying against students who are, or are perceived to be, LGBT.

I’m set to write a piece on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s just-wrapped speech in, oh, an hour, but a few policy highlights: The biggest U.S.

On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, both Paul Krugman and Robert Reich offered far more pessimistic views of the economy than the rosier outlook put forth by

Twenty-seven days, four votes and a long lesson in tedium later, the upper chamber has passed legislation extending unemployment benefits by at least 14 weeks

A great piece in The Washington Times today reveals a remarkable degree of hypocrisy from some GOP critics of last year’s $787 billion economic stimulus

Forget auditing the Fed or breaking up the banks. Before senators address those proposed amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform

Seated across the table from the United States and its allies, the Iranian regime is considering an ambitious diplomatic offer to ship its uranium out of the country.

Via Andrew Sullivan, who insightfully notes that we’re the only country whose prestige is on the rise in the eyes of our international fellows.

Some of the least convincing score-settling in Courage and Consequences comes when Karl Rove attempts to rebut the charge that he politicized the appointment

Today, more than 300 economists and policy experts released a letter warning that the still-fragile economic recovery will be undercut by austerity economics