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So, keeping up on the Pakistani military’s offensive against the Taliban, there’s this: The government claimed 700 insurgents had died and the Taliban were on

The title of Sen. John McCain’s newest campaign ad, "Love" -- which opens with scenes from the summer of the same name -- may make you think he’s gone

I spent a few minutes talking with Maggie Gallagher, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, after she gave a rip-roaring introduction for

Late last year, as Democrats were considering climate change bills and the Obama administration was mulling new regulations to rein in mountaintop removal coal

The compromise Senate health reform bill cleared its first major hurdle early this morning, as senators voted strictly along party lines to block a Republican

Lehman Brothers, Inc., released its second quarter earnings last week, reporting a loss of $2.8 billion ($4.1 billion before taxes). The losses were caused

OMAHA, Neb. -- Following his speech at the NAACP national convention in Cincinnati, Sen. John McCain announced he would take some questions from the audience.

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld (pdf.) the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act, a decision that deepens the debate between between supporters and detractors of mandatory state and federal E-Verify programs

Today during the markup process to overhaul the main education law of the land, No Child Left Behind, senators on the HELP Committee managed to discuss a

Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal personally apologized to the family of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the fallen Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire in 2004, for

In short: no, it wouldn’t, according to Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, and Jim Harper, director of information

With all the public barbs being traded back and forth between the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama administration, it’s easy to forget that the Chamber is

Every living CIA director -- except Bob Gates and Leon Panetta, of course* (Update: and President George H.W. Bush and Adm. Stansfield Turner) -- has signed a

There is nothing I could possibly add to this amazing video fact-check of the wild inaccuracies that Fox peppers its PATRIOT Act report with, produced by my

I swear: this is the full and complete text of an email alert that the State Department just sent me. Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Remarks

I’m still in shock over former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comment that we had no domestic attacks under Bush. Is it possible that he meant to add after

On Monday an installment of Freedom Radio, a podcast production of FreedomWorks, outlined the conservative action group’s involvement in the school choice

Since his announcement of an exploratory committee for a possible 2012 presidential campaign, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has been carving out a campaign

Economic analysts agree it’s too early to judge Gov. Terry Branstad on attaining the economic goals he set forth during his campaign, but at least one says it’s a safe bet they won’t be reached

Via Danger Room, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, took a jaundiced view of the role of contractors in Afghanistan: I