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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

When federal agents led a raid on medical marijuana businesses in Montana last week , questions were raised as to whether these businesses were raided because they were suspected of selling out of the proverbial back door to people without medical marijuana permits–or whether they were raided simply for being medical marijuana businesses. While answers are not readily forthcoming, facts suggest it was a little of both

WorldNetDaily has the scoop: the reservist who refuses to fight under President Obama unless he proves he wasn’t born in Africa has had his military orders

With the odds of an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions fast approaching zero, the White House is speaking favorably about a cap on just the utility sector as

United Nations food inspectors are going to Mexico to investigate reports that industrial pig farms were the source of the swine flu outbreak, the BBC

In The New York Times, University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan offers some housing-market optimism: Recent reports on housing starts, new home sales and

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is flying back to Washington from a three-day trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He

Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.), offering what he calls unsolicited advice, said that the American people won’t support sending additional troops to Afghanistan on

Don’t expect to see many detainees once held at Bagram Air Field return to the fight, Vice Adm. Robert Harward, detention operations chief for Gen. Stanley

Today, the Senate approved the long-stalled Small Business Jobs Act, a deficit-neutral bill containing tax cuts and an array of other measures to aid businesses

Facing morning headlines that auto dealers are dropping out of the popular Cash for Clunkers program because the government hasn’t reimbursed the vouchers,

House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were

Whatever else there is to be said about mountaintop mining (and there’s plenty), no one can deny that it makes a place ugly. How could it not? The technique

<div>One of the signature achievements of the surge, according to General David Petraeus and the White House, has been the creation of so-called

There was supposed to be one this week in the Senate Armed Services Committee, but -- as I told our editorial meeting with some embarrassment -- it wasn’t