On the Sunday before Christmas, 40 conservative House Republicans jumped on a conference call to talk about political strategy going into the holiday break.
The message from Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price: This is no time for a vacation.
While the Capitol is quiet for the winter recess, GOP lawmakers have been anything [...]
HONOLULU – President Barack Obama’s New Year’s Eve will involve a mix of family time and studying the preliminary findings of the government reviews he ordered earlier this week to determine how a 23-year-old Nigerian man with extremist ties got onto a Northwest Airlines flight with explosives.
After he received briefings Thursday morning from [...]
Think back to December 2008. Barack Obama had just won a sweeping electoral victory, and the press was speculating about the ways in which Obama had changed America: high-tech campaigns, the post-racial future, even bipartisanship.
But Barack Obama’s first year as president wasn’t always exactly what Americans expected.
The very first thing that surprised [...]
Think back to December 2008. Barack Obama had just won a sweeping electoral victory, and the press was speculating about the ways in which Obama had changed America: high-tech campaigns, the post-racial future, even bipartisanship.
But Barack Obama’s first year as president wasn’t always exactly what Americans expected.
The very first thing that surprised [...]
President Barack Obama’s announcement that intelligence agencies had information that could have headed off the attempted airplane bombing on Christmas Day but failed to share it has left many of those who have urged a dramatic overhaul of the intelligence community exasperated.
“It’s discouragingly familiar,” said Tom Kean, a former Republican governor of New [...]
It all came rushing back — the “War with Islam?” graphics, the terrorism experts, the breathless reports of a “suspicious van” parked near Times Square, and Chris Matthews mincing no words when describing the Al Qaeda threat.
"They’re the enemy. They’re going to use any means they can to get us,” he said Tuesday on [...]
Democrats are moving to eliminate superdelegates to party’s national convention, the elected officials and party leaders whose role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s closely-contested primary.
Those superdelegates provided, for a time, a lifeline to then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s flagging campaign, and the effective end of their independent role [...]
Information that would have kept a bomb off Northwest’s Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was “vague but available” to intelligence agencies, according to officials involved in reviews ordered by President Barack Obama.
If the dots had been connected, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who tried to detonate the bomb, would have been [...]
Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made [...]
Mounting anxiety about their prospects in next year’s elections is suddenly reviving a debate that has split the Democratic Party for a generation: Should it tack to the political middle to claim centrist swing voters or remain true to liberal principles to motivate the base and other change-hungry voters.
It’s an argument that, thanks [...]
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