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After spending untold billions of dollars securing the nation’s airlines from ill-intentioned passengers, it seems there’s a new menace in the nation’s skies. A

As Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey busily works to bury the abuses of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court may be getting ready to hand President George W.

The prime minister of the Caribbean vacation nation Antigua & Barbuda (official name!) has renamed his country’s highest mountain Mount Obama. Seriously. W.

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

Refugees International, a humanitarian non-governmental organization recently headed by former Pentagon official Kenneth Bacon, is out this morning with a new

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- MSNBC reports that Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration has said it would cost $45 million to get copies of emails messages sent between her

Over at the Middle East Report, Jason Brownlee critiques the Army’s new stability operations field manual as a bloodthirsty imperialist document. Over at Abu

If the 5,000 plus demonstrators that marched to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation (MBA) annual meeting in Chicago on Monday are any indication, the city has had

The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that housing starts climbed more than expected in March. Builders applied for

Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) announced his retirement today, mixed--but mostly dire--news for Democrats, who were hopeful that he could hold on and defeat his

Add birth control to the growing list of taboos in the Florida House of Representatives. House leaders threw out a proposal yesterday that would make April 12 “Birth Control Matters Day,” because House Rules Committee chair Gary Aubuchon, R-Cape Coral, thought the resolution was “controversial.” # This newest installment of women’s-topics-that-make-Florida-legislators-uncomfortable comes on the heels of a dust-up over the word “uterus” last week . # According to the Orlando Sentinel , Aubuchon rejected the proposal by Rep

<p>I agree with those who saw a bit of a valedictory air in Hillary Clinton’s final comments in Thursday night’s debate. But I’m

One reason why Republicans so often cite Rasmussen Reports is that other pollsters have consistently shown much more -- and more resilient -- support for

Cleveland blogger Bill Callahan follows another development in the foreclosure crisis hitting Cleveland and other cities in the Midwest. He illustrates the end

As he mentions in his Washington Examiner column this week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared in a commercial about the environment with House

The trendy way to influence elections this cycle is through independent expenditure committees, and as I wrote yesterday, these committees are, in most

Though former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has yet to launch a formal presidential exploratory committee, despite his Newt Explore 2012 website, the

President-elect Barack Obama tried to kill two birds with one stone by keeping a campaign promise and reaching out to the GOP, but now he’s in danger of losing Democratic allies.