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Even as Michaele and Tareq Salahi try to sell their story to the highest media bidder, it looks like America’s most successful party crashers may get more

Put simply: People are spending their mortgages, says Housing Wire’s Paul Jackson.

The Republican response to Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrats’ nominee for President Obama’s old Senate seat in Illinois, has been one of outright derision. As

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fresh from Moscow for a military-to-military relations visit, is at the National Press Club. I

A really good piece from The Washington Post yesterday points out that a ton of wasteful defense spending comes from congressional Democrats. It was Democrats

In a clear and unambiguous indication that the Obama administration will stop at nothing to undermine the security of the United States, State Department

Via Andrew Sullivan, Marc Ambinder gives the Obama administration’s rationale for opposing a truth commission on torture: In the view, a commission would

Federal drug officials on Monday raided at least 10 medical marijuana operations in at least six Montana towns. From The Great Falls Tribune: Federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration were seen clearing hundreds of marijuana plants out of Montana Cannabis’ greenhouses Monday as local law enforcement officials stood by outside the building.

For conservative Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), already struggling in her reelection bid this year, the news went from bad to worse today, as Arkansas’

The U.S. Census Bureau is expected to release the preliminary results of the 2010 census Tuesday morning and the result could mean a loss of one seat in the Michigan Congressional delegation. The number of seats in the U.S

I think the Obama administration is not likely to cede that authority back to the Congress. -- Dick Cheney, Dec. 15, 2008 What the cynics fail to

Live from Dirksen Senate office building 226: you’re not going to see former FBI agent Ali Soufan, one of the two stars of today’s Senate judiciary subcommittee

The controversy surrounding the conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman (D) took a dramatic turn Thursday, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman John

Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has an important reason for Americans to vote Democratic this year: Accountability for war

The school voucher bill in Pennsylvania will likely have to wait until after lawmakers return from their two-month summer recess following an 11th-hour push to

Summer 2003 was the moment, roughly, when the insurgency in Iraq began to coalesce. (Naturally, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted no such thing was

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was an original sponsor of the DREAM Act, a bill to help some undocumented young people gain legal status through school or military

FBI documents released today reveal the bureau had been gathering background information on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) pre-Senate dealings with

Via Greg Sargent, a Gallup poll finds 51 percent of the public wants an investigation into the use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects