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BIRMINGHAM, Mich.--At last, a press conference. Late in the afternoon, Sen. John McCain, flanked by his wife Cindy, wearing a sling after a wrist injury

The Department of Justice announced today that Roy Belfast Jr., aka Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 97

While feminists worried that the economic stimulus package would neglect them, a quiet but concerted pressure campaign to get women’s interests in the bill was underway.

Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm

The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration yesterday to overturn the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

Discourse at Iowa political events on the right and left has been getting increasingly uncivil, but a recent Carroll appearance by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley that culminated in heated words and physicality may have gone too far.

Congress and the White House are getting kudos for acting so quickly on a stimulus package for the economy, even frm the Wall Street Journal (sub req.) in a

GUANTANAMO BAY -- No one tell Marc Thiessen, but Greg Finley, a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent who said he interrogated Omar Khadr

CANCÚN, MEXICO — On Monday, Kevin Conrad, special envoy and ambassador for environment and climate change, Papua New Guinea, unveiled a new project from Sir Richard Branson. The Carbon War Room is a US-based nonprofit that “harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to implement market-driven solutions to climate change.” One of the features of its website is a tool to measure shipping efficiency

The speculation over Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s future with the group will come to an end tonight, when he is scheduled to talk with RNC members on a conference call. Fox News’ sources indicate that Steele will announce that he will not seek a second term during the call, but the chairman has remained coy about his decision.

I see that my post knocking reporters for covering the Max Baucus was drunk video got linked by Glenn Instapundit Reynolds, who 1) misunderstood my point

It’s official. A House Ethics subcommittee given the duty of weighing the charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y) has found the 20-term legislator guilty of

This week, progressive House Democrats successfully managed to forestall a vote on sweeping child-nutrition legislation that used food stamps, now known as

Two messages worth noting from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s interview with CNBC yesterday: (1) Although he was the head of the New York Federal Reserve in

Imagine you land a new job, and just as you start -- even before you’ve had the chance to prove yourself, let alone figure out how the coffee maker works --

Glenn Greenwald passes along a clip of Richard Wolffe discussing his new Barack Obama biography, Renegade, on G. Gordon Liddy’s talk show, in an interview

I admire former Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant’s ability to push a meme, but this is sort of ridiculous. With the 100-day anniversary just

We now know that there were two men who openly carried assault rifles -- CNN reports they were AR-15s -- outside the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Phoenix

As civil libertarians cheer the Obama administration’s decision to hold a criminal trial for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, they question the rationale behind other terror suspects’ continued military detention.