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My own personal view is we ought to increase the aid to Pakistan, Holbrooke said, including to the Pakistani military.

Less than 48 hours after a Republican National Committee chairman candidates’ debate, during which contenders sang the praises of high tech and Twitter, the RNC

As the Wikileaks endless U.S. diplomatic document dump continues, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is battling back calls to resign for a UN espionage scheme , she’s leading the government’s defacto public relations campaign against Wikileaks and she’s battening down the hatches at the State Department . She is, in effect, in a war against the future the internet is promising to deliver as Wikileaks incrementally posts all of the 250,000 State Department cables it is alleged to possess.

House lawmakers are on the floor as we speak debating a bill to provide $2 billion more to what proved to be a tremendously popular cash for clunkers program.

Some unsurprising comments this morning from Rand Paul, a Republican candidate to replace retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R) in Kentucky. From the halls of

ANCHORAGE -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is seen as a reformer in a state rife with political scandal, and the vice presidential candidate may have her own set of problems.

Republicans are increasingly divided on the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts that was hammered out by the Obama administration and the Republican Congressional

Care of the office of Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who’s among the most vocal critics of the White House plan to expand offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

I noticed, on a visit to the offices of Americans for Tax Reform, that the chalkboard Glenn Beck gave to the American Conservative Union during CPAC was nowhere

Many thanks to Laura for covering the cliff dive of the markets while I couldn’t. I’m back now, and it’s fair to say the reactions to the House’s failure to

When Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) meets on Capitol Hill today with Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, the big question will be whether

This morning, Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) introduced an amendment to reinstate subsidies that help newly unemployed workers purchase health insurance to the

Sometimes sorry seems to be the hardest word, but Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner apologized profusely at his confirmation hearing today for

I emailed Curt Levey, director of the Committee for Justice, after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he would support Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to

The radio host, on vacation, throws up his hands: I don’t know what this means. In a free-form statement, he mostly just takes shots at the elites who doubt

In the month since the Deepwater Horizon disaster caused a Gulf of Mexico gusher, many experts have both doubted the official estimate that just 5,000 barrels

Shira Toeplitz reports on the ego boost that Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts has given to Republican candidates and strategists. So far it’s been enough

Rod Dreher comes at us with an actual fresh look at the Right in exile. Not whining, not paeans to President Ronald Reagan’s tailor. And not slavering over

Speaking of. According to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund’s blog: We expect the Department of Defense to announce at the Senate Armed Services

For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for