Mar 31, 2010 By Jeannie DeAngelis Informed citizens know the census was established to determine the number of elected representatives designated to represent a district, based on population. An official tally is necessary because populace drives monies allocated from the federal government to finance publicly funded services. Yet a 2010 Census television commercial is irksome [...]

Posted 03/30/2010 06:52 PM ET Homeland Security: Forget about foreign jihadists getting nukes or planting bombs in their underwear. The real enemies, some say, are domestic militia groups who play at war and those nasty Tea Party racists. The raid on a Michigan militia group accused of plotting war against the government will no doubt [...]

Posted 03/30/2010 06:52 PM ET Nuclear Terror: So it’s official. The CIA reports that Iran can build a nuclear weapon. What is our policy now? Cross our fingers and hope a mushroom cloud doesn’t rise above a major city? British historian Paul Johnson titled one of the chapters of “Modern Times,” his sweeping moral narrative [...]

Mar 30, 2010 Afghanistan Stories:     CJTF 82 Public Affairs, Bagram Media Center     Wolverines arrive at their new home   By Army Spc. Charles Thompson   BAMYAN PROVINCE – Members of TF Wolverine unload their gear at Kiwi Base, March 17. The primary mission of TF Wolverine will be to train and [...]

Bumbling agency will lose a quarter-trillion by decade’s end Mar 31, 2010 By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The postman won’t even ring once on weekends. In a desperate attempt to trim costs, the U.S. Postal Service is cutting off your Saturday service. This move is too little, too late for one of the federal government’s most [...]

  By Karen DeYoung and Craig Whitlock Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 31, 2010   KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. forces have begun the initial phases of a political-military offensive in this Taliban bastion and hope to control the city and surrounding areas by late summer, according to senior U.S. military officials. Officials have pressed [...]

Mar 30, 2010 By Dan Gainor FOXNews.com   No one should be threatened for serving this nation. But if Stupak, Frank and others can’t handle criticism and anger, then they are in the wrong business. And if the media can’t handle this war of words as referees, not players, then they should stay out of [...]

Mar 31, 2010 By Major Garrett FOXNews.com   Instead of explaining whether America listens, the French president talked about what happens when Obama speaks — denying a problem no one asked about — and in so doing revealed a surprising rift in relations. Did it really happen, right there in the East Room? Could such [...]

Mar 30, 2010 AP   With the president of France at his side, President Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place “within weeks,” not months, because of its continuing nuclear program.  WASHINGTON — With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to [...]

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN March 30, 2010 11:06 p.m. EDT (CNN) — The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church says an order to pay the protesters’ legal costs in a civil claim is nothing less than a “slap in the face.” “By the court making this decision, they’re [...]