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If there were a healthy or coherent relationship between civilian and military efforts in war zones or weak states or post-conflict environments, there wouldn’t

From Roxana Tiron at The Hill: Federal law enforcement officials have subpoenaed the congressional and campaign offices of Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) to get

SurveyUSA has the results of an ugly round of South Carolina polling: Based on what you know, should Gov. Mark Sanford remain in office? Remain in office -

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

On Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki endorsed -- unprompted and by name -- Barack Obama’s call for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months to the German magazine Der

Floyd Norris of The New York Times picks up on President George W. Bush’s myopic views of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,

One of the greatest obstacles to overarching energy policy reform is likely to come in the form of a group of moderate Democratic senators from states that rely

The New Mexico Independent’s Trip Jennings reports that Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) is getting in on some of that sweet, sweet executive privilege

Early in today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on President-elect Obama’s Pentagon subcabinet nominees, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for

Related to our piece today on the silence of Congress even in the face of surging gun violence, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne this morning is asking a

Dave Catanese of Politico reports U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) will likely run for a fourth term in 2012 after losing the 2010 gubernatorial primary

During their recent congressional testimony, Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker refused to be pinned own on the goals, mission or even the meaning of

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

In the NY Times Week in Review on Sunday, Jonathan Mahler opens his piece about How to Define Terror with the story of Salim Hamdan, former driver for Osama

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) doubled down on his anti-ACORN activism at today’s Big Government press conference. Video below the jump.

At the How to Take Back America conference in St. Louis, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy led two workshop sessions -- one on how to defeat attacks on sovereignty by U.N. treaties and North American Union and one on how to understand Islam.

BALTIMORE -- A day after he sent the press corps following McCain scurrying with a report that the presumptive Republican nominee would be picking a

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

Remember the PreserveRaptorJobs Website? The one portraying the F-22 Raptor fighter jet as an economic engine; and one that seeks to mobilize people to write in