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McChrystal forcefully defended the Obama administration’s revised strategy, its weeks-long decision-making process and President Obama’s ultimate decision to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops for the war effort.

There’s been a great deal of talk about how the ease of buying weapons in the United States might be helping to arm the Mexican gun cartels responsible for so

So just who are those civil liberties groups that have encouraged the Obama administration to issue an executive order creating a system of prolonged

A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds fewer Republicans (16 percent, down from 33 percent last September) and Americans overall (14 percent, down from 23 percent) describing themselves as “angry” with the federal government. # A growing number say they’re “frustrated.” Other options — “basically content” and “don’t know” — remain statistically unchanged

The progressive Iraq/Afghanistan veterans group VoteVets has been, to the best of my knowledge, supportive of a properly resourced and focused Afghanistan

As expected, the House approved Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s (R-Fla.) resolution condemning South African judge Richard

Add Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) to the growing list of conservative state officials who are preaching fiscal restraint while also vying for federal stimulus

From The New York Times this morning: “As every student of American history knows, this country’s core founding principles included nonpunitive taxation,

Senate Democrats attempting to pass a much-needed $26.1 billion state aid bill -- a fully paid-for provision including funds for teachers’ jobs and for Medicaid

Ben Geman, talking to the senators who’ll decide whether or not to bring cap-and-trade to the floor, reports that it isn’t. And in another report, he finds the

Christina Romer, leaving her position as the head of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers this week, gave a flash response to the jobs report released

Religious conservatives are stepping up the pressure on Republicans legislators as the final week of the legislative session approaches and a proposed amendment to add a ban on gay marriage to the Minnesota Constitution appears stalled. The Minnesota Family Council threatened Republicans that any effort to stall the bill will be redefined as a vote against the bill, while the National Organization for Marriage pleaded that if the bill doesn’t go forward it will encourage “gay marriage activists.” “Contact your legislator and tell them to vote yes on the marriage amendment,” the Minnesota Family Council wrote to supporters

Denver attorney Robert Corry spoke out this week against federal scare tactics he said were being used to create uncertainty in Colorado’s medical marijuana community.

<p>First Joe Lieberman went to New Hampshire to stump for John McCain.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Now he&rsquo;s taking his

It came as a welcome change of pace yesterday when President Barack Obama took the inaugural podium, looked the country in the eye and warned that surviving two

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson today admitted the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, comes with certain risks, telling reporters at the company’s annual meeting that the debate still needs to stay “fact-based.” “We know there are risks,” Tillerson said, according to Reuters .

The long slog that has been the debate over school vouchers in Pennsylvania is nearing a climax, with a state representative planning on introducing a more

A burning sugar cane field (Pic by skatoolaki, via Flickr) Many of the most influential American agricultural interests are headquartered in specific parts of the country: The majority of peanuts come from Georgia, corn from Iowa and sugar from Florida. But even though agricultural interests have a significant presence in only a small number of congressional districts, they play an inordinately large role in the political landscape of the entire country.

Just days before a United Nations vote to determine the Palestinian right to statehood, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry lambasted