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Tom Ricks, preparing for today’s Pentagon subcabinet-official hearings, muses: It’ll be interesting to watch the Armed Services Committee hearing today on

Here’s an interesting detail/admission from Michael O’Brien’s interview with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho): Crapo said that he credited the August recess protests

Porter Goss, director of the CIA from 2004 to 2006, previously gave the impression he was dismayed when his operations chief, Jose Rodriguez, ordered the

Today, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its 2010 report on the state of the American housing market. The verdict? Not good, if stable. The

Newt Gingrich spent the last week promoting a liveblog of the health care summit at his Center for Health Transformation, with expert commentary and the

HALT, an immigration-enforcement bill, is necessary because President Obama is seeking “backdoor amnesty” for millions of undocumented immigrants, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said Tuesday during a House Judiciary committee hearing

The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) is getting some serious help in his Senate primary contest against billionaire Jeff

In a rote column about liberals stifling dissent, The Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone argues that the two most violent incidents at this summer’s town

Wow. A federal judge has ordered the release of five of six Algerian enemy-combatant defendants from Guantanamo Bay -- including Lakhdar Boumediene himself, the

Alex Koppelman is a must-read on the subject of Lou Dobbs, and his decision to trust the incredibly strange, discredited conspiracy theories of people like Orly

The Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily ceased clean-up operations of last year’s massive oil spill since last week because of storms and high flood levels on the Kalamazoo River. Mark Durno, deputy incident commander for the EPA response in Calhoun, tells Michigan Messenger the decision to stop clean up work was made because the river is nearly as high as it was last July 25 when Enbridge Energy Partners’ Lakehead Pipeline 6B ruptured , spewing an estimated one million gallons of Cold Lake crude oil into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.

As Congress jousts over how to reform the nation’s health care system, many experts say that the Massachusetts model, which has reduced the state’s uninsured rate to the lowest in the nation, is a good place to start.

DENVER -- Here we go, Al Gore! 6:46pm: Gore comes out. Invesco is going nuts. He says if he was president we’d never have invaded Iraq. 6:48pm: Gore on

Yesterday, it was Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) citing Climategate as reason to doubt the legitimacy of the EPA’s recent finding that greenhouse emissions

Moments ago, while giving his stump speech at a campaign rally in Defiance, Ohio, Sen. John McCain apparently strayed from his prepared remarks, with hilarious

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for Georgia to execute a man convicted of murdering a police officer in 1989, though seven of nine witnesses in

The Emily’s List-endorsed candidate hoping to unseat Rep.

Faced with increasing push-back from the public, the media, government watchdogs and a bipartisan list of lawmakers, the Department of Justice Thursday agreed to drop a proposed regulation that would have allowed government agencies to lie to members of the public seeking records through the Freedom of Information Act . “I believe it is extremely important that we do not attempt to protect our citizens by lying to them,” Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall said in a letter to Holder mailed Wednesday .

In a sharp switch from their historic reproach of government-backed health care, Republicans on Capitol Hill this year are embracing Medicare in their bid to kill the Democrats’ health reform plans.