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Just released from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s office: Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador

The foreclosure crisis is far from over. Rather, as this chart from Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic shows, it is in some ways just peaking. Last month, banks

I’ve been meaning to talk about this all week, but that pesky little AIG debacle served as quite a distraction. Anyway, as TWI has reported, there are other

A major theme of last night’s speeches at Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Conference was, ironically, out-and-out gloating about

The aging song stylist uses the latest edition of his Newsmax.com column to demand the president’s birth certificate (it’s here, by the way), repeating some

The AP reports that Gen. Ray Odierno, who’s been commanding U.S. Forces-Iraq since mid-2008, when it was called Multinational Force-Iraq, will be succeeded by

According to a Pentagon announcement, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has received and accepted the recommendations of a panel he put together after the November

Two men, a Democrat and a Republican, were urged by the Branstad administration to vacate their leadership roles on the Iowa Board of Regents. They have

A few weeks ago, we ran a piece pointing out the disastrous trickle-down effect that the auto industry’s troubles have had on the companies that supply them

GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the architect of the financial regulatory reform bill, just released a statement saying that he and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) have

In Texas, a bill to renew a five-year-old Medicaid women’s health program that is due to expire in December is under threat from passage, all given that

Congress is poised to cut food stamps again, taking more away from an extended benefit created by the 2009 stimulus, before its original expiry date, and

The battle over Medicare has hit the airways in Iowa, as a group dedicated to fighting cuts to the popular government program has begun buying TV ads in Des Moines. The Partnership to Protect Medicare spent $39,390 at the local CBS and NBC affiliates in Des Moines between Nov

Here’s the Office of Legal Counsel memo from May 10, 2005, which outlines approved interrogation techniques, including

As the battle over gun reform has raged on Capitol Hill this year, it’s become ever-more clear that this is more a regional issue than a partisan one. Indeed,

Perhaps the biggest unexpected fact to emerge in the hearing comes in response to a question from Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). According to Gen. McChrystal,

GUANTANAMO BAY -- As Omar Khadr’s defense team rushes to present as much of its case as possible this week before a court-mandated government psychological exam

Laura Rozen takes a crack at it. In other words, be willing to try to get back to diplomatic negotiations with Iran, slow down their program, protect regional

Just a few days after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before House lawmakers about his role in Bank of America’s controversial buyout of Merrill