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Thirty-seven years after his death, community organizer Saul Alinsky has a surprising new fan base.

How bad is the Afghan insurgency? What will it take to roll it back? During his confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Eikenberry

Pam Hess, the Associated Press’ intelligence correspondent, reports that Tom Fingar, the intelligence community’s chief analyst, is on his way out of

The Iowa Independent has a big scoop: The suspect in the fatal shooting of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Kansas was an occasional contributor to a

For a few months, I’ve been following the efforts of the unemployed -- specifically the long-term unemployed, and especially the 99ers, who have exhausted the

The governor-turned-Fox News pundit tells Greta Van Susteren that she’s still headlining the embattled National Tea Party Convention next week. Oh, you betcha

AMES — Tensions reached their apex Thursday night during the Fox News/Washington Examiner GOP presidential debate, sending Republican enthusiasm through the roof with less than 48 hours until the Ames Straw Poll gates open Saturday. Debate topics were typical: conflict in the Middle East, American’s floundering economy, immigration, states’ rights, and of course, hot button social issues

While younger Republicans are hard at work trying to figure out how to make their party viable in a post-Bush political landscape, some older members of the

House Republicans are following up President Obama’s speech to their annual retreat with strikingly combative questions, with phrasing and numbers very familiar

More on yesterday’s buck-wild killing of Kandahar police chief Matiullah Qati. P.J. Tobia at True/Slant hears that the mysterious U.S.-trained Afghan security

While photo identification legislation has gotten top billing in the GOP-led battle against Election Day voter fraud fears, other proposals are being

DENVER - Gov. Sarah Palin’s candidacy is clearly deteriorating. The only question is whether the decline is more like Lehman Bros or a polar ice

At a rally for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sarah Palin -- who I do think has been unfairly attacked as a source of violent backlash against health care --

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) clearly prefers to read entire speeches in context before calling a general insubordinate. After attending yesterday’s congressional

Following up on my post yesterday on inconsistencies in the Gulf oil spill claims process, I thought I’d share this email I received from Gary Eichler, who runs

While many of us have been speculating about what the 30-plus pages of blacked-out material in the newly released 2004 CIA inspector general report might be

In a full-page spread in Roll Call Wednesday Thursday, a long list of business executives are trumpeting their support for an unlikely proposal: Legislation

Later today, President Barack Obama will give a speech at George Washington University outlining his long-term deficit-reduction plan. He is expected to look

Chelsea Schilling has published the best WorldNetDaily article in my recent memory, an expose of the many, many, many names that WND Editor-in-Chief Joseph

A host of U.S. officials, led by Vice President Joe Biden, traveled to Munich for a prestigious annual security conference over the weekend, where they’re