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Here’s what Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Fareed Zakaria about the disgusting Afghan marital rape law: Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy

The recent Supreme Court decision upholding the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act, which penalizes employers that knowingly hire undocumented workers by revoking

The smart take among liberal and Democratic strategists is that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is making an empty threat to filibuster his party’s health care

At noon, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce the fate of a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound, near Cape Cod -- and The Boston Globe is

The paranoid, mysterious Judson Phillips in the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention gave way to the real, jovial Phillips this weekend.

Outgoing Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) met with reporters today just a few hours after the news leaked that the 18-year House veteran had decided to hang up his

In the end a slight majority of Republicans opposed levying a 90 percent tax on bonuses for companies that take TARP money — another signal of how complicated

Can it really be that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn’t have any supporters on Twitter using either the #iran or #iranelections hashtags? Challenger

Jan Markell, an end-times preacher and longtime friend of Michele Bachmann, defended anti-Islam statements by Lynne Torgerson, Rep. Keith Ellison’s first announced challenger for the 2012 election. In late-June, Torgerson launched her campaign at Tea Party Nation by calling Ellison a “radical Islamist” who “fails to oppose banning Islamic Sharia law in the United States.” Ellison responded by accusing her of running a campaign “based on hate, division, and fear.” In an interview on Friday, Markell defended Torgerson

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, penned an op-ed in Politico today in which he called for passage

Unemployment insurance is widely popular, and economists say it’s an effective stimulus. But there’s one obstacle it can’t overcome: the U.S. Senate.

Just how fast are those prospective Karzai-Taliban peace talks advancing? According to this Voice of America report, a mini-jirga meeting of Afghan and

Over a complete Republican boycott, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed its climate bill last week by a vote of 11-1. The lone dissenter

Over at Human Events, Rowan Scarborough attempts to advance the story, first floated by House Republicans, of David Axelrod’s long-disclosed financial gains

A new poll shows Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is holding onto a comfortable lead over Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) in his Senate reelection bid. According to a

On the front page of The Washington Post, Jerry Markon has an excellent, lengthy look at the conservative movement’s newfound -- or at least newly invigorated

After State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly told reporters yesterday that an interagency process led by the National Counterterrorism Center was responsible

Echoing sentiments expressed to the Colorado Independent by U.S. House Leader Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., more than 49 percent of the shareholders of an oil and gas company in the Permian Basin of West Texas recently asked for more transparency in hydraulic fracturing operations. Nancy Pelosi Pelosi last week told the Independent that oil and gas operators should want to publicly disclose all the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” as protection against future litigation.

As to my can-there-be-a-decent-right question about torture, Philip Zelikow, the counselor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the executive

The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee.

The Associated Press releases a brutal report on Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and his use of state resources. The most damaging items: $1,265 for a flight from

Via Roll Call, here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) telling reporters Wednesday that President Obama’s looming heath reform address to Congress

While most of us were still reading or recovering from the latest batch of gruesome torture memos released by the Justice Department last week, bmaz at