Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Sure, sure, the Internet was making a big deal Thursday about the fact that President Obama got lei-ed at his 1979 high school prom in Hawaii. (Time Magazine released three pictures of POTUS before prom, courtesy of an Obama classmate). But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released a vintage picture on...

Byron York

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

If there were an organized opposition to comprehensive immigration reform -- and there really isn't, compared to the political/business/activist/lobbying complex in favor of it -- the opposition would pound daily on the key weakness at the heart of the Senate Gang of Eight bill. That weakness is...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

IRS employees working under Lois Lerner allegedly asked a pro-life group about the “content of the members of your organization’s prayers” while considering their application for tax-exempt status — a charge that is less surprising in light of Lerner’s work as the chief enforcement...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled two bills designed to limit government surveillance of Americans, including one that would effectively ban the use of drone technology in the United States. “The use of drone surveillance may work on the battlefields overseas, but it isn’t well-suited for...

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who led the filibuster decrying President Obama's policy of using drones to strike American terrorists, still has doubts about the president's drone policy despite Obama's full-throated explanation of it Thursday at National Defense University in...

Brian Hughes

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama on Thursday said he is imposing new limitations on the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists and took fresh steps to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, declaring America at a “crossroads” in its fight against terrorism. In the most expansive detailing of...

Paul Bedard

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In his upcoming book "Presidential Leadership...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

A handful of celebs and singers will be heading into D.C. this weekend for official Memorial Day festivities. First, there's Lt. Dan actor Gary Sinise, who is the host of Sunday's National Memorial Day Concert on the National Mall, alongside actor Joe Mantegna. Joining them are former...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

On Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley lunched at Lincoln Restaurant in downtown D.C. with a group of 13. The governor and his gang took over the Flag Room at the restaurant. The Democrat ordered a seasonal chopped salad, roasted salmon and a brown-butter fudge cake, according to a...