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Yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, who forever tried to prevent the U.S. military from bolstering its forces in Iraq or for adopting counterinsurgency strategy there,

Volcker is celebrated as the Federal Reserve chairman who broke the plague of global inflation in the early 1980s. But he did it be engineering a violent crackdown on excess credit. Why a ’Burkean’ conservative can support this Democratic nominee.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been receiving a lot of media attention for his gadfly role as ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform

UPDATED Oct. 8, with reaction from Planned Parenthood Controversial Texas pastor Robert Jeffress introduced presidential candidate Rick Perry to the stage at

Philip Zelikow details an argument that was deployed against me when he opposed torture in the Bush administration: We briefed the following members of

Here’s a supplement to Aaron’s great photo spread from this afternoon’s rally. Remember: Fox News reported on these rallies. It didn’t promote

Correction, 5:00 EST: This story originally implied the stay placed on Foster’s execution by the U.S. Supreme Court was based on the use of pentobarbital. In

As long as New York Times Economix contributor and University of Chicago Professor Casey Mulligan continues to insist that the housing bubble was not a bubble,

Iowa politicians offer a wide array of opinions on the role of faith in politics, with some saying they can’t be separated and others saying there must be a clear delineation between the two.

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Is that your opening negotiation position, Mullah Omar? From the BBC: Taleban leader Mullah Omar has denied there are any talks under way to end the

Kathleen Keest over at Credit Slips gives the most concise explanation yet of why a worrisome percentage of car owners are underwater on their auto loans - and

Speaking of Hillary Clinton’s people, Greg Sargent has it confirmed from a knowledgeable source: Jim Steinberg, deputy national security adviser in Bill

A Thanksgiving present from Baghdad: the Iraqi parliament has passed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) ending the war by 2011. Or, as AFP reports, possibly

Ready for some Capitol Hill opposition to Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ program cuts? This is from Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services

Adele Stan’s write-up of Tuesday’s Code Red protests on Capitol Hill includes a journey into the office of Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), a surprise guest at

Though congressional lawmakers avoided a federal government shutdown by agreeing to a short-term funding extension late Friday and early Saturday, there’s still

Nate Fick -- whom Center for a New American Security chairman Richard Danzig announced this morning as the next CNAS CEO; he’s barely in his 30s -- and Andrew

There are 10,000 examples like this one, from Texas: Leon Evans is used to doing more with less. But with the state facing an estimated $18 billion budget

Sen. Norm Coleman’s counsel argued before the Minnesota Supreme Court today that wrongly rejected absentee ballots should not be counted in the U.S. Senate