Author: Kim Priestap

Today I'm thinking of my husband's cousin, Sgt 1st Class James Priestap, who was killed by a sniper in Sadr City on Thanksgiving day last year. This is his …

Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner chose this as photo of the day....

Scott Ott at Scrappleface reports on Moqtada Al-Sadr's new plan to drive American troops out of Iraq: In addition to a ceasefire against Iraqi troops, the Islamic cleric's fatwa …

The US military raided an al Qaeda safe house in Iraq and found a very disturbing torture manual. The Smoking Gun got its hands on the manual and published …

ABC made the announcement earlier today. From ABC News: The saga is over. Rosie O'Donnell will not be returning to "The View." In a statement today, Brian Frons, the …

I've never seen Minority Leader John Boehner so impassioned, but, Lord knows, I'm so grateful to see it now. Leader Boehner spoke passionately on the floor of the House …

Sadly, this isn't a surprise. From the Majority Accountability Project: U.S. Rep. Jack Murtha gave nearly $50,000 to 19 House freshmen who abandoned a week-old pledge to toughen House …

Fox News is reporting that the body of a man dressed in a US military uniform was found in the Euphrates River south of Baghdad may be that of …

Does Brian Ross at The Blotter have no idea what the word "covert" means, or was this a deliberate leak from the government to put pressure on Iran? The …

In his most recent Vanity Fair piece, Christopher Hitchens returns to Finsbury Park, the neighborhood in which he grew up, and laments how much of it is no longer …