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Over at the Weekly Standard, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Joshua D. Goodman have a piece purporting to give advice about how to export the Anbar Awakening --

Greg Sargent makes a great point about the torture memos: What was actually revealed in yesterday’s memos was the nature of the Bush administration’s

In the past few weeks, Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has become the unlikely point person on a debate on Wall Street

Legal Times made an interesting observation today about President-elect Barack Obama’s opportunity to shift the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, a notoriously

Having never worked in the Middle East, Christopher Hill sought to prove his understanding of the region.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson (Pic by USACEpublicaffairs, via Flickr) EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson penned a new op-ed for the Los Angeles Times , criticizing House Republicans desperately seeking to undermine the authority of the agency they have dubbed a “job killer.” Arguing that the environment affects red states and blue states alike, Jackson writes that “it is time for House Republicans to stop politicizing our air and water.” As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Jackson has faced harsh criticism from House Republicans and GOP presidential candidates who say the agency’s regulations are an undue burden on businesses that have to cut jobs simply to comply with clean water and air rules. Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann has pledged to end the EPA if she takes office. “Since the beginning of this year, Republicans in the House have averaged roughly a vote every day the chamber has been in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation’s environmental laws,” writes Jackson.

Presidential hopeful and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared to commit a large blunder Monday when, after she announced her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, she promised to “mimic the spirit of Waterloo’s own John Wayne.” However, according to The Washington Times , Bachmann misspoke because Waterloo’s John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer. “Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa.

I’m in one of the two massive ballrooms of the Washington Convention Center, where in a few minutes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to present a

On a Republican National Committee conference call with reporters, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kans.) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) voiced vociferous opposition to the

Kalsoom Lakhani over at Changing Up Pakistan takes a look at the conclusion of this week’s ministerial talks. s expected, a diplomatic “We’re Just Not That

Today, President Obama announced he will not sign H.R. 3808, the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010, quietly passed through the Senate with no

Annie Lowrey, our former colleague at the Washington Independent, is now writing for Slate — and is still doing the brilliant job she did for our network of telling the story of the 99ers , those who have been unemployed so long that they have exhausted their unemployment benefits. The average length of a spell of unemployment now sits at 30 weeks, after hitting a high of 35 weeks in July

The Twitter-crazed Michigan GOP chairman, Saul Anuzis, is nominated by Rev. Keith Butler, a black pastor who whom he walked the streets of Detroit, supporting

Here’s the internal American Petroleum Institute analysis that breaks down the economic effects that regulations proposed in light of the Deepwater Horizon oil

When Congress passed rules to reign in the most usurious of credit card practices, many Americans cheered. When Congress moved up the deadline for companies to

NASHVILLE -- The closest thing to a controversy at the National Tea Party Convention has been the opening speech by former congressman Tom Tancredo, in which he

Almost 29 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter delivered what is considered one of the worst speeches of his career. Americans were

CHICAGO, Ill. - Speaking to reporters on the campaign plane Monday morning, an aide to Sen. Barack Obama placed a bet on Sen. John McCain’s next weak spot:

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though the state Department of Agriculture has begun ramping up its campaign to educate Floridians about the safety of gulf seafood, some remain unconvinced that it is as safe for consumption as the Food and Drug Administration has claimed. Just last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental advocacy group, filed a petition with the FDA, demanding that the agency “recognize the hazards posed by PAHs in seafood and set a health protective standard.” PAHs, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, are pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer in both animals and humans

Add former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich to the list of 2012 competitors who will not participate in Nevada if that state’s caucuses interfere with New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.