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Some conservatives are taking heart that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had second thoughts about trying 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan.

There’s not much I can add at this point to Mark Mazzetti’s great scoop about the CIA hiring the-private-military-firm-formerly-known-as-Blackwater for its

White House Internet wizard Jesse Lee writes to defend the record of the solicitor general and Supreme Court nominee: Most prominently, a handful of Republican

In Afghanistan, you’ve got a war of unclear goals that everyone agrees has no military solution. But it’s also not clear if the alternative to open-ended

Luke Johnson’s piece on the Values Voters Summit, which took place in Washington this weekend, provides a nice look into the ongoing war over the importance of

A few weeks back, President Obama made waves by announcing his support for an expansion of offshore oil drilling -- a strategy that Democrats on Capitol Hill

Forgive me if this reads like I’m greasing a source, but as part of the holds on administration appointees released by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) last week,

The Obama administration may circumvent the spirit of a judge’s order to disclose hundreds of documents relating to the CIA’s Bush-era interrogation program.

TPMDC’s Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has announced he plans to vote to send the Senate health care bill to the Senate floor. Senate

Elaine Silvestrini reports that Maj. Stefan F. Cook’s request for a Florida court to force Simtech into giving him his old job back has been dismissed, because

Following the Tuesday release of House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget resolution (PDF), senior groups and analysts have come out

The Minnesota congresswoman, who’s promised to introduce repealer bill after repealer bill if Republicans win a majority in 2010, introduces a one-page bill

Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) today introduced -- along with 75 other Republicans -- a resolution to officially commemorate the

<p>John Deeth of the <em>Iowa Independent</em> has a <a

Right before his confirmation as the next Afghanistan-war commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Spiegel,

While maintaining that he remains “hopeful” a compromise can be reached between U.S. House Republicans and Senate Democrats before a stop-gap budget bill expires next week, U.S.

Here’s Dan Pfeiffer, deputy communications director at the White House, writing yesterday to dispel stories that President Obama and Democratic leaders have

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute), who’s inching toward a decision on a White House run, is releasing his newest book, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That

Yesterday I blogged The Washington Post’s story on political appointees slyly sliding into career positions. One expert on the subject I spoke with said the

It was one of the final rule changes of the Bush administration: A controversial new regulation allowing gun owners to bring concealed weapons into national

Lawmakers shouldn’t overlook how the Federal Home Loan Banks extended Countrywide a $50 billion lifeline when no one else would.

New fundraising numbers are in for both parties, and they’re telling the same old story of this election cycle. All three national Democratic campaign

Sen. John McCain said one substantive thing about Afghanistan in Friday’s debate: we should take Gen. David Petraeus’ Iraq strategy and move it a few thousand