The Huffington Post reports that House Democrats want to phase out armed military contractors in our theaters of war:

On Tuesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) introduced the Stop Outsourcing Security Act, which would make it the military’s responsibility to use its own personnel to train troops and police, guard convoys, repair weapons, run military prisons and do military intelligence activity.| MORE ›

When Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow a plane out of the sky shortly outside Denver, Colorado on Christmas Day, there was media coverage everywhere, and on every format.  Newspapers, TV, Internet news sites, blogs.  You name the place, people were talking about it.  In fact, they’re still talking about it.| MORE ›

At CPAC, Ryan Sorba’s denunciation of GOProud, a group of gay conservatives.

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Then later, he got into a debate with Alex Knepper, an openly gay conservative, which culminated in the above statement.  My reaction upon seeing that:| MORE ›

Yesterday, Ed Morrissey wrote an article over at Hot Air criticizing the Obama administration’s plans to create an indefinite detention system for untriable terrorists:| MORE ›

Back in the days of silent films, the weekly thrill a minute serial kept audiences on the edge of their seats,ending each week with the heroine or the hero facing looming disaster. For the past three decades, there has been a steady claim that the earth was facing disaster unless the world’s leading economies made substantial changes in how their populations live. A year and a half ago, few people doubted the nature of the problems facing the planet.| MORE ›

There has been much debate over the past year, and longer than that, about where the United States should house detainees still being held in the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  A plan initiated by President Obama last year is slow to come to fruition due to logistical issues, a lot of NIMBYness from politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as warnings about the rise of attempted attacks on the U.S. should we move terrorists inland.| MORE ›

Being the President of the United States is difficult at best, as you are tasked with making decisions of many, many areas of policy, both domestic and foreign.  The job of being president gets even harder when you find yourself having to strike a balance between deciding how best to work with a system that is in the midst of turmoil.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is one such system.| MORE ›

Despite being married, 23-year-old Alyssa Branton was stalked for months by a much older man who recently shot her dead outside her office building after she refused his advances. Despite providing more than 70 pages of documentation detailing Roger Troy’s bizarre and unwanted behavior, Branton was denied the restraining order that might have saved her life by a Florida judge. His reasoning? She hadn’t provided proof that Troy was a menace.| MORE ›

Now that the National Tea Party Convention is over, where should the tea party movement go from here?  I could be completely wrong, but from what I’ve gleaned from the little actual news of the convention’s happenings I can find, it seemed like it was mostly about organizing, wack-a-doos, and red meat.  And while the first and third (and not so much the second) are good for rallying the support of your ideological base and attempting to get your favored politicians elected, those things do little to to get an agenda passed.| MORE ›

In the first year of his administration, Barrack Obama’s promise to elevate the civic culture of Washington, DC was about 95 percent vapid rhetoric, 5 percent reaching across the aisle with a limp handshake. Meanwhile, for the Democratic Party on the whole, it was business as usual. If the last two weeks are any indication, Phase-II of Obama-era postpartisanship might be even more cynical than was Phase-I.| MORE ›