Just in time for the stock markets to open in Asia, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea conducted another nuclear weapons test, according to Reuters.

Much noise will be made by conservatives all week that President Obama's weak foreign policy is emboldening Kim and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and...

A very interesting story in Friday's USA Today notes a number of federal agencies, including HUD, own a lot of houses that they're having trouble selling. Sound familiar?

In many ways, the government's situation parallels what thousands of other homeowners are confronting: The houses it owns are harder to...

Well it was a nice night, at least on television, where at home you could watch the White House Correspondents' Dinner and know that in fact you weren't really a part of it. Blogging about it afterward is a contrast to all the maniacs on Twitter, adding #nerdprom to their...

Forgive a native Chicagoan for a moment here, but I have to shed a virtual tear as I contemplate the renaming of another Chicago institution - the Sears Tower will be known some time soon as the Willis Tower. Far away from home as I am, I couldn't help but...

Earlier in this new year, Paul Kiel at Muckraker, Talking Points Memo's investigative arm, took note of the fact that he had stopped receiving press releases from the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. It sounded like retaliation. The new media press pioneers at TPM had done...

Yeah, pretty much.

Sometimes, as we boys need reminding, it takes a woman to inject some common sense into complicated decision-making like "Should I run for higher office?"

(Sometimes, not.)

Maybe the evidence is all circumstantial, but it's there. First there's the oft-cited story about Ann Romney not...

My grandfather always said that after three days, houseguests and fish start to smell the same. I guess in the case of Florida and the presidential election, it's three months.

It's been close to three months since Rudy Giuliani declared that his road to the White House marched up the...

The campaign for the Republican nomination doesn't have any clear winners yet. But it does have its obvious losers. Minor candidates like Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo have bowed out, and Fred Thompson's exit can't be far off. What we're all waiting for now is to see whether Jan. 29's...

Pity the conservative thinker and reader haunted by the specter of a nuclear Iran. How would you feel if you got halfway through your day and someone punched a big hole in your already tenuous grasp on reality?

Vice President Cheney tried so hard to play his role of...

In the future, donations to keep your favorite alleged criminal politician out of the slammer will be tax deductible. But until then, you'll just have to settle for the good feeling that comes with knowing that you financed a legal arms race that allowed an almost certainly guilty someone to...

It would appear that the lamest of the lame duckedness at the end of any President's second term is already creeping into the White House's official pronouncements.

President Bush yesterday phoned in a "presidential signing statement," one of the acts by which the president claims he can ignore...

This is Four Friday Funnies where from here on in at the Huffington Post, I will end the week, which is long and hard, with some laughs. Tune in next time. And, hopefully, this time.

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You might have heard that supporters of Rep. Ron Paul's outsider presidential campaign were...

Has a presidential primary debate ever been so highly anticipated? I doubt it. Faced with the opportunities of six boys getting up on stage and piling on Senator Hillary Clinton, we in the press have been bubbling over with glee. With the former First Lady standing between her top two...

Have no fear! The reinvention of government is here! And it only took six years for the White House to get us precisely the man we need to do the job of reorganizing American governance to deal with post-9/11 realities! That's what Vice President Dick Cheney appeared to say in...

And now comes another installation in the seven-year running serialization of that old program, "Ways That Republicans, Conservatives, And Other Bush White House Apologists Justify The Use Of Torture As An Interrogation Method In The War Against Al Qaida."

The Associated Press gives us this charming exchange during the...

You'd think the New York Times would have learned by now. But long after squeezing out its star, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Judith Miller in part for writing stories that helped drag us into a foolish war with Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, they're at it again.

The A1,...

The House Democrats who are leading the charge on reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act can't seem to make anyone happy. Progressive lawmakers and the American Civil Liberties Union say that the new bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers won't protect civil liberties sufficiently. And at last, House Republicans are...

Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court took up two cases concerned with the nettlesome racial politics of the war on drugs. One of the cases, Kimbrough v. the United States, addressed the disparity in sentencing for dealers and users of crack cocaine versus powder cocaine. In that case, District Judge...

It's a pretty true testament to the state of our system of campaign finance that we allow politicians to form entities that allow them to legally raise money to assess whether or not they can run for president. Ultimately, if you want to run for President, why is it the...

Here at the Huffington Post, we got an e-mail yesterday from Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. It included the following image:

I showed it to a co-worker sitting to my right. "Do you think that looks like..."

And the quick answer...