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In March, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino demurred on a question about the military. Her reason? Don’t ask her -- she’s just a woman. Some of

Meet the next commander of the beleagured Afghanistan war. The Senate confirmed now-four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal by voice vote this afternoon.

Starting today, the state of Florida requires a doctor to perform an ultrasound prior to any abortion service, whether it is medically necessary or not.

A new index from a leading education policy group allows parents and students to assess a college’s “borrowing-to-credential ratio,” combining newly

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

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Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) says he thinks Clinton will succeed. But he’s the one making the uncomfortable statements about the Clinton Foundation. It’s a

A new tweet from the governor of Alaska reveals her choice of reading material; the new, bestselling book from the legal-minded conservative radio host.

Public Policy Polling, conducting an automated poll on the Massachusetts Senate race, is finding good data for Republican candidate Scott Brown. According to

This is the third and final installment in a series on social networking sites and the military. Part One: How the Army Found Middle Ground Part Two:

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

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who’s been one of Sonia Sotomayor’s harshest critics and questioners at her confirmation hearings, just said to Sotomayor: “I

The Blaze, the conservative news and opinion website founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck, reports on a claim that the Obama administration increased the

Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak spoke at a forum last month organized by the Center for a New American Security. He wanted sustained American support

I’ll be totally honest: I’m swamped with other documents, but Greg Sargent has read through some newly acquired CIA documents from the American Civil Liberties

A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote. On the dispensary’s website, owner Skekina Pena writes : Protect Your Access! Vote 2011: All dispensaries are doing a voter registration drive

Not many generals have been inclined to portray calm in Iraq as irreversible. But in southern Iraq, where violence has declined so steeply that now U.S. troops

Sam Stein listens in to Mike Huckabee’s little-noticed radio commentaries for ABC and finds a bit of bad taste. Huckabee’s commentary on the morning of Aug. 27,

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

Really, media? Is it really newsworthy that President Obama said thank you in Arabic to an Arabic-speaking leader and an Arabic-speaking press? Could it be that

New numbers from The Washington Post as President Obama is expected to announce a decision on prospective troop increases within days: He has a formidable

Some quick fun with the transitive property. Item one: Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how is handling her job as Speaker of the