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One man’s short take after watching the Inauguration through the trees at the southern edge of the WWII Memorial: There were few surprises through the

The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Rosenberg (with aid from Yochi Dreazen) has a piece that I can’t recommend strongly enough: a profile of Gul Agha Shirzai, the

Public protections against fraud hang in the balance over the upcoming SEC budget battle.

Ben Smith has the not-so-shocking news that FreedomWorks, the chief organizer of a large September 12 anti-tax, anti-spending march on Washington, has been

An increase of U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan seemed like a certainty during a Pentagon press conference held Thursday afternoon by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, though both men insisted no decision had yet been made.

Marco Rubio, the conservative underdog in the 2010 GOP primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat, tells CNN that Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) made a disappointing

The embattled Republican candidate in the NY-23 special election buckles and signs the Americans for Tax Reform pledge never to support a tax increase. How does

Peter Baker has the skinny on the hiring of James Glassman, former editor of Roll Call, former publisher of the New Republic, to run the George W. Bush

If you missed it, the roll call vote on Cass Sunstein’s nomination to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is up here. All but six Republicans

The American Federation for Children’s insistence that it is a bipartisan education group took a hit today when it was revealed to be one of three school

The news that Democrats in the House and Senate will likely marry their health reform bills in closed-door sessions -- not in a formal conference committee --

Three days and four hearings on the ground views of Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy have just ended. And there are still a number of questions that have gone

Yesterday, reports emerged that liberal Democrats won’t push too hard to assist illegal immigrants under health care reform as long as the White House commits

There’s going to be a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and, for once, it won’t involve the tea parties. The Washington Post reports that

If you’re a legislator crafting a bailout for the auto industry in the middle of a national recession, you’d probably tweak it in such a way that U.S.

I’d like to think that this symbolizes some good old-fashioned traditional conservatism making a comeback in the GOP, said Ron Paul spokesman Jesse Benton.

CBS has released another clip of Katie Couric’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Tonight’s segment will focus on foreign policy -- and judging from this

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) introduced legislation yesterday to replace the likeness of Ulysses S. Grant with that of Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill. Every

The Conservative Political Action Conference is holding an online vote for two big prizes -- the 2010 Blogger of the Year and the 2010 Journalist of the Year.