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Key Senators Say Drones Should Document Assad Regime Attacks on Civilians

As diplomats attend a critical meeting in Tunisia to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down in the wake of attacks by his regime forces on his own people, a key group of U.S. senators suggested Friday that unmanned…

Best cocktails for the Academy’s Best Picture Nominees

The Oscars is an opportunity to take in the glitz and glamor that is Hollywood at its finest as well as recognize the amazing films to hit movie screens in the past year. And sure, it’s all too easy to…

Threatening letters, powdery substance sent to congressional offices, Colbert and Stewart

UPDATE 2:00pm ET: Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer has just sent an updated e-mail to all Senate offices confirming that three total congressional offices have received threatening mails containing a powdery substance that has initially tested negative for containing…

Thomas Friedman’s energy fantasies

You can tell an aging con man has run out of new ideas when all he can do is mindlessly re-peddle the old ones. Thomas Friedman’s predictable sneer at the Republican primary process in The New York Times on Feb.…

Whiskeys fit for a president

From left to right: George Washington Straight Rye Whiskey comes from our first president’s Mount Vernon distillery, made to Washington’s own recipe. Jefferson’s Reserve pays homage to bourbon produced by Thomas Jefferson himself at Monticello and Old Overholt was one…

The 2012 presidential race is slipping away from Republicans

AP Feb. 14, 2012: President Obama speaks about extending the payroll tax cut at the White House. The Republican Party remains in a state of chaos — facing the increasingly realistic possibility of the first “brokered” convention in more than…

Why voter ID should matter to Americans of all races

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state’s voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry…

CPAC 2012 — less divisive, more inclusive, than ever!

Correction: Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg’s comments on February 6 edition of “The O’Reilly Factor” were mischaracterized by author Kevin McCullough in the original version of this piece. The quote used by McCullough should have said, “On the Feb. 6…

No easy solution for Syria

The violence is getting worse in Syria: At least 5,000 people dead already including hundreds of children and medical supplies are running out. There’s Thomas Friedman’s wonderful Arab Spring of Democracy for you. All we have to do to end…

Reid Threatens to Push a Democrats-Only Payroll Tax Cut Extension

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatened to move his own payroll tax cut extension bill Thursday, as Democrats across the Capitol decried what they said was GOP obstruction, this as the deadline fast approaches for the tax break to expire.…