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Forgive me for getting a bit self-indulgent here, but I feel like I should reply to Juan Cole’s post saying Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s remarks yesterday

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn’t normally pass up an opportunity to comment on Iran, which makes his Twitter feed pretty jarring right now. He has had

I noted in yesterday’s story about Tea Party activists reading Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals that most of the people who buy the book on Amazon are

Freezing foreclosures has become a favorite tactic to slow the housing meltdown -- a way to show that something’s being done to help people stay in their homes. But there’s no solid evidence these reprieves do anything more than postpone the day of reckoning.

Both wings of the pharameceutical industry--brand name producers and generic manufacturers--are praising the White House choice of Kansas Gov. Kathleen

MarketWatch takes a hard look at Republican nominee John McCain’s surprise proposal in last night’s debate to have the government buy up bad mortgages and

Sivyer Steel Corporation of Bettendorf has agreed to pay a $54,786 penalty and clean up residual used oil that may have leaked from its storage tanks as part of settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has received an internal plan written by senior Interior Department officials on restructuring the energy management

Michael Barone, longtime political number-cruncher (his Almanac of American Politics was first published in 1972) and increasingly conservative pundit, has

Tim Pawlenty, the Republican governor of Minnesota, today became the second possible 2012 presidential contender to endorse the Conservative Party’s candidate

Nine months ago, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill were all celebration as they hailed the renewal of the program. Last week, they called for its demise.

Sarah Palin reared her head in Hong Kong to give the the first foreign-policy speech of the Palin 2012 campaign, and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman

On the eve of the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe snags an interview with former FEMA head Michael Brown, of

The notorious Amity Shlaes, the Bloomberg scribe who drives liberals around the bend with her thinly sourced argument that the New Deal was a failure, has

Sensing vulnerability in Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest poll numbers, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is launching over a million dollars

Here’s Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) explaining to Fox News today why he’s threatening to filibuster the Democrats’ health reform bill over the inclusion of a

In case anyone was not yet completely convinced of the difficulty facing Sen. John McCain in his quest for 270 electoral votes, Politico’s Mike Allen reports

The Washington Post points out today that, by divorcing public plan rates from Medicare in their final health reform bill, House Democrats might have to hike

We can disagree on politics, Glenn Beck told a crowd of thousands, but all agree God is the answer.