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Ken Keen, a three-star Army general, was in Haiti on Tuesday at the U.S. ambassador’s office shortly before nightfall when the quake began. The ambassador’s

Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called

Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park (Pic via Facebook) Think Progress is reporting that just months after playing a lead role in the temporary shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Rep

Tuesday’s rallies drew only small crowds, but the demonstrators were hopeful that passage of health care reform would lead to an electoral and legal backlash.

ANCHORAGE -- While I was working on a piece about Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policies, one local pointed me to the story of a town of about 300 residents on the

This is a change in personnel, President Obama said, announcing Gen. David Petraeus’ takeover of the Afghanistan war, but not a change in policy. Yes and no.

Yesterday, Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) accused banking giant JPMorgan Chase of violating a confidentiality agreement with one its customers, Susan Wones, who had

The Occupy Wall Street protests that started in New York and have now spread to cities including Chicago, Boston and San Francisco (and coming soon to Texas),

GOP Senate candidate Mike McCalister is facing more questions about his military service, this time from a Vietnam veteran. # According to the St

Here’s a sterling example of how the fringe conservative Website WorldNetDaily, which has published more than 200 articles about Obama birth conspiracy

The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), has been added

Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture has an astounding followup to Matthew Blake’s coverage of Congress tearing into the rating agencies on Wednesday. As Matthew

Planned Parenthood celebrates the 95th anniversary of its founding this week amid a barrage of political attacks, ranging from a full-on congressional investigation to a proposed federal budget that would defund the chain of women’s clinics. Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, wrote a letter announcing that the organization was turning “95 years young” this week.

On Monday, the federal government filed a lawsuit seeking to block H.B. 56, Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law. In doing so, the Obama administration is

A few pieces of good news for supporters of a more inclusive immigration policy: Harry Reid beat out Sharron Angle (R), who ran a campaign that relied heavily

Here’s the latest research on just where all of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP oil spill went. According to

In a startling new Pew survey, more than half of households say that within the past year a member of the household has been out of work -- up 15 percentage

The Democratic and Republican leadership elections are finally upon us, and it seems that most of the drama and uncertainty has already worked itself out well

Quelle surprise. Eli Lake reports today that regardless of Sen. Richard Lugar’s (R-Ind.) support for the New START nuclear-arms reduction treaty with Russia,

According to Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the Eagle Forum, the conference drew its largest crowd in 38 years, signaling a surge of grass-roots enthusiasm for 2010.

The Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition (MFFC) is lending its voice to the battle over a constitutional amendment limiting marriage between a man and a woman in Minnesota.