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Attorney General Eric Holder just announced that he will seek the death penalty for the five 9/11 terror suspects. They will be tried in a New York federal

In an unusual move by a federal district court, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., today issued an order (PDF) holding the

Breaking news, from Zero Hedge: As we expected when we reported that the Delaware AG got into the foreclosure fray (Delaware not being a judicial state), it

If released, Department of Justice memos could make it difficult for Obama administration to avoid confronting whether Bush broke the law.

As the heat gets turned up on the health care reform debate, anti-immigrant activists are using the issue to whip up fear and anger toward immigrants, portraying them as a costly and burdensome drain on any taxpayer-supported U.S. health care system.

The trouble facing Democrats as they continue to push for health care reform is that, in a country of roughly 300 million people, almost 260 million already

Adam Gadahn, the California metalhead (really!) who became al-Qaeda’s first American citizen recruit, has been apprehended in Pakistan. In 2006, the Bush

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may be running for a Hero of Wall Street award. Over the last few months, he has opened up the Fed’s coffers

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty got an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai after yesterday’s presidential debate. The whole thing’s fairly predictable --

The latest tweet from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa): Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words death boards. Even liberal press never accused me of

Via Democracy Arsenal. CQ Politics’ Political Insider reports some glaring similarities between parts of Sen. John McCain’s statement to reporters earlier today

Here’s Ali Soufan, from his written opening statement and his spoken summary, delivered from behind the wooden partition. One aspect of Ali Soufan’s

Sen. John McCain gave another statement to reporters earlier this morning about the escalating conflict in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In the

Quinnipiac is the latest pollster to find a huge uptick in support for an Afghanistan escalation, making last week’s speech by President Obama -- somewhat

Bo Dietl, an MSNBC analyst and Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council (appointed by former Gov. George Pataki), unleashed a disturbing,

Everybody has a spoof of Christine O’Donnell’s I’m not a witch ad. Sharron Angle and Harry Reid accuse each other of helping child molesters. Joe

Despite the stall-out in the recovery and the decline in median wages, Wall Street executives look set for record pay-outs this year. The Wall Street Journal

First appeared March 4, 2008 Usually I limit my blogging to environment-related topics, but this was just too good to be true (though I assure you, it is).