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Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks how the department will have the culture, the morale and the resources necessary to succeed. Back to Adm. Mullen’s

Just announced from the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the upper chamber will vote this afternoon to bring to the floor a $245 billion

Via Derrick Crowe at The Seminal*, a new CNN poll has found that support for the Afghanistan war has dropped yet again, and now it’s at 39 percent, with 58

The Supreme Court will hear a case this session that could clarify whether states have the right to crack down on illegal immigration. The case, to be heard

Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s GOP primary victory might be old news, but her campaign’s financial improprieties dredged up during the primary

We are now eight months into the Obama administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development still doesn’t have an administrator. The vetting process

Rep. Michele Bachmann told radio host Mark Levin on Friday evening that in facing protests by labor supporters Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans are like President Abraham Lincoln, who fought the Confederacy, and President Reagan, who contended with the Soviet Union

Responding to a Florida Independent story revealing ties between Project SOS , a federally funded Jacksonville abstinence education program, and Martin Ssempa, a controversial Ugandan pastor who supports a law in that country that prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality, program founder Pam Mullarkey says she wants to “dissociate and distance” herself from “allegations” about Ssempa made by “the US media.” # Mullarkey contacted the Independent via email with this statement: # While I don’t believe the allegations made about Pr. Ssempa, and he has categorically denied them, I wish to dissociate and distance myself from the allegations of genocide, violence against gays which are attributed to Dr.

With the DISCLOSE Act still stalled in the Senate, President Obama took the opportunity on Saturday to scold the GOP leadership for its recalcitrance in working

With major gay rights victories in Iowa and Vermont in recent days, the movement seem to be on the upswing in much of the country. Arizona, however, is another

In a major turnaround for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, she told ABC News, in an interview that aired last night, that she doesn’t disagree with scientists who say

Updated at 5:08 p.m. In the tide of abortion-related legislation sweeping the nation, among the popular proposals is to mandate counseling services for women

Byron York’s report on Republican frustration with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is as juicy as it could be without actually naming any

One reason that Republicans are happy to have recruited Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) to run against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) -- the odds of a primary win by

For every banner headline crowning Sen. Barack Obama the Democratic nominee for president, there was at least one lurking lower on the page wondering what Sen.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton breathed new life into the floundering climate talks in Copenhagen this morning with a surprise announcement that the

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has rejected a written request, penned on Sept. 18, by his fellow armed-services-committee senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe

Lt. Choi may not be so satisfied with Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ decision to relax Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell enforcement, but it’s being greeted warmly by

An economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley has filed a formal grievance to investigate the tenure of one of Berkeley’s most