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Adam Serwer has an absolutely sterling post about the dangers of assigning collective guilt to American Muslims for the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: In

Erik Prince, the founder of the private — and embattled — private military contractor Blackwater (now Xe) is reportedly engaged with a South African organization to provide security for Somalia’s battered government.

Via Fred Thompson (yes, that one): Andrew Langer, organizer of DC @TeaParty, just reported 1 of their 2 permits was cancelled this AM by Secret Serv at last

We interrupt hearing-bloggery for this message, just released from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, to the troops in Afghanistan -- and, presumably, those on the

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who apologized last night after yelling you lie! during the president’s address to Congress, appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is circulating around Capitol Hill a proposal that would allow nuclear and coal with carbon capture and storage technology to count

Dedicated readers know that since March I’ve been trying to determine how the Obama administration conceives of the actual endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan --

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not pleased with the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s offshore drilling announcement today. Here’s Karen Harbert, president

An important nugget from President Obama’s proposed 2011 budget: The White House aims to scrap $36.5 billion in subsidies to oil and gas producers by repealing

Elijah Zarlin, who worked for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 in fundraising, was arrested on Monday during the ongoing protests at the White House in opposition to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of America. He soon won’t be alone. More than 100 Obama staffers from the 2008 campaign plan to join the protests and risk arrest on Thursday

Jason Hancock of The Iowa Independent, TWI’s sister site, is traveling through the state today with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), whose position as the senior

Although the mainstream media in the United States hasn’t picked up on it, at least one Mexican newspaper and some U.S. bloggers are reporting that swine flu

As expected, President Obama reappointed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to another term today today, noting in remarks delivered in Martha’s Vineyard

<p>Update/Correction:&nbsp; We <a href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/providing-needed">reported</a> on Feb. 29,

One more thing really quickly about Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s ascension to commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. On Friday, I blogged about changes in

What, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wanted to know, would Gen. McChrystal have achieved in 18 months? We will have convinced the Afghan people that we and the

The University of Texas is once again embroiled in a possible Supreme Court case involving affirmative action in their admissions process. As the Austin

In Birmingham, Alabama today, the state goes to court to defend its new immigration law, which is set to go into effect Sept. 1. The United States has sued to block the law from being implemented, saying essentially that immigration is a federal issue.

The Cable’s Josh Rogin interviews Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Kit Bond (R-Mo.), who attended this afternoon’s White House meeting on

The NY-23 special election has gotten so much attention that a special election in California, for the seat of now-Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, has

Today, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, kicked off a national advertising campaign. The goal is to explain to regular Americans what it actually