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This is my favorite rejection under the Freedom of Information Act ever. In May, following a wealth of disclosures about the role of the Survival Evasion

In an internal 2003 memo, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously warned that the struggle against terrorism would be a long, hard slog. His

I saw in my RSS reader that four U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours. Hmm, I thought, I get emails from the International Security

Gen. Jim Jones is close to getting the job, according to Dave Rogers at Politico. If so, it would be a good choice. With Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton very likely

RedState’s Erick Erickson announces a blanket ban on conspiracy theorists at his site, taking some whacks at liberals and Clintonistas for starting the

Responding to the creeping notion that the government might be forced to swoop in and nationalize some of the country’s flailing banks, Washington’s financial

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that one reason he decided to try the five suspected 9/11

Breaking news from The Washington Post: A member of the security advance team for President Obama’s recent trip to Mexico is suspected of having contracted the

As Fox News and others excoriate President Obama for easing up on deportations, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has the gall to say that what this country needs more of is immigration. From The Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) said Friday that the “single biggest” thing President Obama can do right now to spur job creation in the United States is to allow more immigration. “Most importantly, we want to get immigrants from around the world to come to America,” Bloomberg said in an interview with the “CBS Early Show.” “That’s the single biggest thing that the president could do with Congress, is open up the borders to those that will create jobs here.” He told CBS that immigrants “don’t take away jobs” but rather they create jobs for people already living in the United States

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Nebraska Gov

In five minutes, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) announced she would skip the 2010 gubernatorial race, resign her own office at the end of July (her term is up

The Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force has issued a preliminary report recommending that Guantanamo Bay detainees be tried in federal court for

Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov.

In response to concerns over the term “Occupy Albuquerque”, the protest movement has renamed itself “ (Un)occupy Albuquerque .” The decision was made in a general assembly meeting of protesters othe University of New Mexico campus. As the New Mexico Independent reported last week, some of the ’99 percenters’ objected to the association of the word ‘Occupy’ with what one Daily Kos contributor called “…five-hundred years of forced occupation of lands, resources, cultures, power, and voices by the imperial powers of both Spain and the United States

Chuck Darrell, who previously served as communications director of the Minnesota Family Council, will head the media efforts of Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition of conservative Christian groups that are working to convince voters to back a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. “We are very fortunate to have a seasoned, skilled communications professional such as Chuck Darrell join our campaign,” John Helmberger, chairman of Minnesota for Marriage, said in a statement .

The Department of Justice this morning announced that twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen

Later this morning, I’ll be on a conference call with the deputy U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi security forces. It’d be interesting to get his

A poll released Thursday by Public Opinion Strategies shows that 62 percent of Americans say that marriage in the United States should be between a man and a

When the Pentagon’s leadership announced a process to end the military’s ban on open gay service before Congress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates played the

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the people Gen. Stanley McChrystal dissed to Rolling Stone, issued this