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Now that the House and Senate armed services committees have heard from Amb. Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, there are two more hearings to go: the

In addition to Guantanamo Bay and torture, the big topics of the day seems to be warrant-less surveillance and Federal Intelligence and Surveillance Act and

Look, the media doesn’t pay enough attention to Samuel Wurzelbacher. The key scene in Wurzelbacher’s latest episode of Just Joe, the Pajamas TV web show comes

The conservative blogger/reporter/columnist, author of In Defense of Internment and Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and

On page 30 of the 2004 CIA inspector general report, the CIA’s interrogation guidelines provided for “standard techniques” of interrogation that include,

Two weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, the Colorado legislature enjoyed a historic moment swearing in two African-American men

Progressives who oppose escalation see an opportunity to change the public debate.

We know that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), burned by voter anger over his coziness with Wall Street, received only $4,250 in

At a Heritage Foundation luncheon today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) went off on a bit of a tangent and told conservative bloggers to check out a five-minute

The Michigan Catholic Conference is slamming the Legislature for passing a 48-month lifetime cash assistance limit without considering the impact on the 25,000 kids whose already destitute families will be kicked off aid Oct. 1.

WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the

Politico’s Laura Rozen obtained a formal dissent filed by a senior USAID development economist, C. Stuart Callison, against the development approach for

Presidential candidate Rick Perry has signed the National Organization for Marriage’s marriage pledge, the group announced on Friday. The Texas governor has a

As I wrote earlier today, it is difficult to see the May jobs numbers as anything but a worrying disappointment. The stall-out in job growth might be temporary

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical ticking bomb case -- OMG there’s a bomb hidden in

I’ve been buying Michael Barone and Richard E. Cohen’s biannual Almanac of American Politics since 2001, so I’m happy to own the new 2010 edition, even if a

This certainly seems like a prelude to a very long-telegraphed campaign: There’s been a heavy bombardment. They targeted some militant hideouts as well as

UPDATED Nov. 11, with additions to the list of services offered* by Stanton Healthcare A Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, has a new neighbor, Stanton

A new weekly newspaper launching in Vail next week already has competition in the form of a preemptive publishing strike from Vail Daily Editor and Publisher Don Rogers, who tells the Colorado Independent he already launched his own new weekly Thursday afternoon. “Ours came out yesterday afternoon,” Rogers said in an email. “It’s a weekend fun guide, basically

How would CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta prevent the next dubious intelligence-based public presentation, a la then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s 2003

RedState.com uses scare quotes to refer to the bipartisanship that would result if merely two Republicans vote for the stimulus package. True: if only two of

Fresh off last week’s news that companies run by the nephew of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the prominent House defense appropriator, have received millions of

Parts political reprimand and parts pragmatic entreaty, President Obama on Wednesday urged congressional lawmakers from both parties to put away the partisan

An interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is slated to air on the NewsHour tonight and, according to an early transcript, here’s what she says