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Now, the Democrats’ big dog: Jim Webb, the streetfighting Marine from Virginia. He started out by casually remarking that his son was in Anbar in 2006 for the

Harry Shearer plans to buy up all the comedic talent in the world, one jokester at a time.

The Christian Science Monitor carries an interview with an anonymous and recently retired senior Pakistani intelligence official, who tells us to expect more

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The Washington Post: Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are

Stacy McCain reports on a new Zogby poll that, according to John Zogby, puts the president’s approval rating at about 50-50. This has got to scare Democrats

Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he would put in place a plan to expand the time that soldiers spend at home between deployments. By 2011,

Here’s more video from the front end of today’s red alert anti-health care reform protest -- a lengthy first crack at a Tea Party version of The Twelve Days

While costly, the ship was the linchpin in the sea service’s advanced strategy to patrol and fight in the most dangerous shallow sea lanes, known as littorals. Think Iraq’s national waters, where the country’s two oil terminals are located. But the Navy suddenly killed the weapon program. The explanation has pleased no one -- especially Congress.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) In an order filed yesterday in a U.S.

Today, I’ll be covering a Treasury Department conference on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that provide

The two leading House Democrats on environmental policy are expected to unveil a major energy and climate bill today with more ambitious goals than recent

This might qualify as evidence that there is a God, and he (or she) has a sense of humor. From The New York Post’s Page Six: lthough we didn’t think it

For all the talk about Obama not governing as a progressive, take a look at his first not-even-48 hours in office. He’s suspended the Guantanamo Bay military

Yesterday I reported on a 501c4’s attack ad targeting Democratic members of Congress over warrantless surveillance. But here’s something strange: the ad is very

I guess the folks at AIG, the insurance company that has gotten tens of billions of dollars from the government to keep it afloat, didn’t listen very closely

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (aka CREW) has filed an FBI complaint against Rep.

My understanding is that around 2:00 or 2:30 p.m. today, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) are going to introduce their bill providing aid

A poll released today by Public Policy Polling shows Newt Gingrich with a commanding lead over Mitt Romney in Colorado. The poll shows Gingrich up 37-18 over Romney in Colorado.

From Beijing, President Obama says that his imminent announcement of refined Afghanistan strategy will contain some very important details: “I am very

Seventy-five years ago, Mar. 4, 1933, with the Great Depression deepening, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration heralded the most productive, dynamic