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Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel who’s making his second run for Congress from a south Florida swing district next year, pens a column for Human Events

Leading headlines this morning are two economic datapoints that count as positive in the current climate. Thursday is the day for weekly jobless claims, and

How tax cuts lead to deficits, and higher taxes. You know, the stuff Republicans don’t like to talk about.

People always talk about The Washington Post’s Bob Kagan as the smart Kagan child, but even if his brother wasn’t Fred Kagan, this column would still be pretty

Last time, it was the lascivious behavior of ArmorGroup -- the private security firm handling the U.S. Embassy in Kabul -- that attracted headlines. Those

This is bound to draw some fire from the left: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern

Freshman Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), who took some heat for introducing a bill that would force presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship, explains

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that

Daily Kos diarist Chuck Cook has photos of a Americans for Prosperity-sponsored rally against freshman Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-Md.) in Salisbury, Md. The

The Charleston Daily Mail reports today that the West Virginia board charged with investing the state’s pension money will not join nine other states in

The Occupy Miami protest campground (Pic by Ashley Lopez) Occupy Miami protesters are reporting that county officials are requesting that they move from the area they have been occupying since Oct. 15 by 5 p.m.

On Thursday, right as Round One of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing gaveled to a close at Guantanamo Bay, the Office of the Secretary of Defense announced that

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just told reporters that he doesn’t know. That cash, gifted to General Motors ($13.4 billion) and Chrysler ($4 billion) in December

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination: As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) today joined the growing list of lawmakers who said they want Congressional hearings on the 14th Amendment, specifically its

In the opening pages of Going Rogue, Sarah Palin tells an anecdote about the Alaska State Fair that took me aback. Here’s the story: Ahead, on my right, I

One of the odd coincidences of CPAC is the location of the National Organization for Marriage’s booth just 20-odd feet away from the booth of GOProud, the

When the stimulus was the talk of the town, some women piped up to note that the stimulus funds were seemingly targeted at male unemployment, only to be told