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The Tea Party believes in American values like tradition, property rights, and keeping your word. Or so they say. In 1828, when Frederick County purchased 94 acres from farmers Elias and Catherine Brunner to build an almshouse, the deed stipulated that the land should be “for the benefit of...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., was caught buying drugs as part of a federal investigation into a Washington, D.C., drug ring last month and is being charged with cocaine possession, according to a senior Drug Enforcement Administration official. The official, who was not authorized to...

Trial of Bolotnaya 12 seen as a warning against challenging the Kremlin By Kathy Lally IN MOSCOW — The defendants sit in glass cages, bored or distracted, paying little heed to the case. It’s as though they’re extras in a tedious experimental theater production. The prosecutors, two young...

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say - The Washington Post Doesn't anybody remember when Gen. John Singlaub, of Iran-Contra fame, announced the Total...

Well, here we are. The actual cost. . . So, the second-lowest "silver" insurance option (kinda the mid-range), AFTER the tax credit, is seven percent of your gross annual earnings, assuming you make $12.50/hour, a bit less than double the minimum wage.

Or maybe an Irish-American Catholic. . . What Maryland does better than Texas By Martin O’Malley Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, is governor of Maryland. With gridlock and partisanship having all but paralyzed Washington, governors are at the forefront of our country’s policy divide. On the...

This should be fun. When the Redskins take the field in Green Bay Sunday, they'll have to contend with more than a stadium full of Packers fans. Members of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin will also be on hand to protest the team name, according to the Green Bay Gazette “We support...

The Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Several prominent leaders in Alabama weighed in Friday on allegations that all-white sororities passed over two prospective black members because of pressure from alumnae, and in one case, an adviser. Paul Bryant Jr., the president pro tem of the...

Today is the anniversary of a vicious, unprovoked attack on the United States by lunatic barbarians bent on dominating the world. Having burned Washington, on September 11, 1814 a British naval force sailed up the Chesapeake Bay with orders to take Baltimore. The British guns had greater...

WASHINGTON -- The "Beacon Hill Bandit" has robbed the same Hybla Valley bank for the fifth time. The FBI says the man hit the TD Bank across from the Beacon Hill Shopping Center on Richmond Highway around 11 a.m. Monday. They say he robbed that same bank four times between March of 2010 and...

NFL falls leave 1 fan dead, 2 hurt TERRY COLLINS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- NFL opening day excitement was tarnished with the death of one fan who fell from a pedestrian overpass outside the big game in San Francisco, and injuries to two others from falls inside the Indianapolis...

By Sarah Kliff and Lena H. Sun Every month, a hundred or so people crowd the lobby of the Arlington Free Clinic, clutching blue tickets to enter a health-care lottery. Uninsured and ailing, they hope to be among the two dozen who hit the jackpot and are given free care. Some might think the...

By Michael S. Rosenwald The push by 50 western Virginia counties to secede in 1863, forming West Virginia at the height of the Civil War, was led by a charismatic store-clerk-turned-lawyer who famously urged his supporters: “Cut the knot now! Cut it now! Apply the knife.” West Virginia was...

WASHINGTON – NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous, who is credited with boosting the finances and helping to stabilize the nation's largest civil rights organization, said Sunday that he plans to step down at the end of the year. The Baltimore-based National Association for the...

What Bill O’Reilly’s apology means By Erik Wemple, Published: August 30 at 10:14 am A fully cornered Bill O’Reilly last night issued a bold and full-throated apology for a rather consequential error from his Wednesday night broadcast. In a chat with pundit James Carville, O’Reilly stated...

BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- A 911 call released Friday provides a dramatic account of a tragic joyride by an 8-year-old boy in his mother's car as he swerved through traffic, turned around at a convenience store and eventually slamming into a light pole, killing his 6-year-old...

U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary By Barton Gellman and Greg Miller U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president...

If anybody's interested in what's going on. . . I'll leave the wingers to shout as much as they like. The genesis of the whole "Voter ID" thing is the number-crunching techniques that computers make possible. Both sides are well aware that the young, the poor, and minorities tend to vote...

By Billy Kenber Nidal Malik Hasan faces a possible death sentence after being found guilty Friday of killing 13 people and wounding dozens more when he opened fire at Fort Hood army post in Texas in November 2009. Hasan, 42, a U.S.-born Muslim who acted as his own attorney, was convicted of...

From an op-ed by Eugene Robinson, liberal columnist. . . Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) the Canadian American who appears to be running for president, has grabbed headlines and air time by being the loudest advocate of an alleged third option: Congress could refuse to fund Obamacare, thereby...