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In an appearance on Democracy Now! yesterday morning to discuss Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, I made the point that Abdulmutallab’s ability to board Northwest

Say hi to Adm. James Stavridis, whom Defense Secretary Bob Gates just tapped to become NATO commander (or, for those who prefer formality, Supreme Allied

Today, returned from the six-week August recess to vote on the state aid bill, House Democrats put forward legislation to create a fifth tier of unemployment

The announcement is the result of an Obama administration task force’s proposal -- first reported by The Washington Independent.

This revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s new book, nabbed by Paul Bedard, might shed some light on why Ridge passed on a 2010 U.S.

When most of us flip on the lights (or type into our computers, for that matter), we aren’t thinking about how those simple acts might affect those living in

In another move that suggests the Obama Department of Justice is not making many big policy breaks with its predecessor when it comes to the legal rights of

Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is getting some help from his old friends today. The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax organization founded by Wall Street

Photo: Chisholm’s Iron Man Statue; Source: Flickr, jimmywayne Minnesota’s Executive Council voted Wednesday for a six month delay on the lease of mineral rights on privately-held land in northeast Minnesota. A handful of non-ferrous mining companies are seeking the 77 leases , but landowners, some of whom attended Wednesday’s meeting, are unhappy with the process and the prospect of pollution by non-ferrous mining.

A statement by Dick Armey, the former U.S. House Majority leader from Texas, that only 49 out of 3,000 faculty members at Texas A&M brought in enough money to

UPDATE: Steele deviated a bit from his prepared remarks, and I’ve changed the text to reflect that. In his speech to Republican National Committee state

On Friday, the news broke that hackers had obtained and released thousands of email exchanges between climate scientists at England’s University of East Anglia.

The 2010 budget outline unveiled by President Obama this morning projects $646 billion in revenue from a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions by 2019.

MarketWatch had some additional thoughts on Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s $300 billion plan to have the government buy up mortgages. People

Hmm, so it appears that Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special envoy to Af-Pak, is going to be the first administration figure to explore the

The still-not-30 Weekly Standard editor Matthew Continetti, who penned a book about Jack Abramoff in 2006, is working on a campaign biography of Alaska’s

The key question about how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab retained his visa to enter the U.S. centers on the connection between the terror watchlist he was on and

Since I’ve been singing the praises of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments all day, I leave this one to Colin Clark of DODBuzz: “I can tell

Frank Enten is a fixture at CPAC, a cheery military veteran with boxes and boxes of presidential and political memorabilia. Here was one of his display items