Rep. Mark Souder announces resignation

House candidate Mark Souder has just been knocked off his own stool by the force of his own dishonesty.
Souder is one of those family-values guys who just can’t keep his hands off the forbidden fruit. He just won a contested primary for his seat. Here’s ‘Prepared Remarks by Indiana Rep. Mark Souder’:
It is [...]

Karzai, Clinton iron out differences between US and Afghan government

President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to put recent differences between the U.S. and Afghan governments behind them Tuesday, saying that while they may have policy disagreements, such disputes do not reflect instability in the overall bilateral relationship.
The last time Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, was in Washington—a year ago—he had [...]

Big Ten expansion push on fast track

According to a report in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, the Big Ten is looking to accelerate its timetable for potential expansion. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the process, multiple high-ranking Big Ten officials are meeting Sunday in Washington, D.C. to discuss the potential for expansion.
The impromptu meeting in the nation’s capital makes sense because the [...]

Israel, US talk over Palestine-Israeli land dispute cannot come to terms yet

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has held talks with US President Barack Obama–their first meeting since a row over plans to build homes in East Jerusalem.
Differences remain between Israel and the US, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
visit to Washington, the White House has said.
President Obama urged the Israeli PM to take steps to build confidence [...]

Health Care Reform to become a Law

The remarkable change in political fortunes thrust Obama into a period of uncertainty and demonstrated the ability of one person to control the balance of power in Washington. On Jan. 19, that person seemed to be Brown. But as the next 61 days would show, culminating in Sunday night’s historic vote, the fate [...]

Fate for the Beltway Snipers

John Gaeta received a letter of apology this week from the man who shot him point-blank in the neck at a Louisiana mall in 2002.
The shooter was Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger half of the so-called D.C. sniper team that terrorized the Southeast and the nation’s capital that year. Malvo is serving a life [...]