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Today’s ruling by a federal district court judge that some prisoners who’ve been detained in Afghanistan for years without charge or trial have the right to

Not really sure what to make of this, fresh out from the Pentagon: President Barack Obama’s 2010 defense budget request will be delayed, possibly until

Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he’ll be splitting the Mineral Management Service into three pieces in response to charges that

With all the necessary caveats about polling in Afghanistan, this new BBC poll finds a surprisingly robust acceptance among Afghans for the U.S. troop

Of the nine dismissals in the U.S. attorney scandal, the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Atty. David Iglesias was probably the most blatantly partisan. A

I reported earlier this week that Republicans were holding up a vote to confirm Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin because, basically, of arguments over

A new report from the Treasury Department -- the last of its kind -- shows that despite all the regulation-avoiding PR campaigns, new loans at the nine largest

The McCain campaign quickly backtracked from its Tuesday announcement that the Republican presidential nominee invented the BlackBerry, explaining that the

So why did Feith believe the Taliban -- not Al Qaeda -- was entitled to Geneva Conventions protections but not P.O.W. privileges? This comes across as

On Tuesday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rolled out the House GOP’s budget blueprint for 2012. Meanwhile, the White House and the GOP-controlled House

As The American Independent recently reported, Maryland groups against same-sex marriage legalization in the state are informing churches how to influence

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the longtime top Democrat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, has died at 77 years of age. Murtha, the subject of ethics

No real surprise that progressive Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) would be appalled by the inspectors general report on warrantless surveillance, but this is news

Amid the debate over Sotomayor’s supposedly activist move joining the per curiam opinion in the reverse discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano, there’s

Just as the National Security Strategy places an international order based on binding global norms at the center of President Obama’s foreign policy, a United

Detainees moving through immigration courts lack certain rights that most Americans take for granted, and among them is the right to legal counsel. Although a

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial America’s toughest sheriff who pushed for SB 1070 and parades inmates around in pink, faces another scandal: His office

The Department of Homeland Security wants to prioritize dangerous criminals for deportation, and state laws that fast-track undocumented prisoners are helping.

Bethany Haley, a spokeswoman for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), has told WorldNetDaily that her boss is more interested in the conspiracy theories about Barack