R.J. Matson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In the sub-zero cold of late November 1950, south of the Yalu River near the village of Kunu-ri in what now is North Korea, Pvt. 1st Class Charlie Rangel, though wounded by shrapnel, helped lead 40 of his fellow…

Sen. Tom Harkin

There was a lot of talk about the public health insurance option over the weekend. From a steak fry fundraiser in Iowa to the Sunday morning talk shows to a rally in Minnesota attended by the president, the…

Nancy Pelosi had strong comments about the public option today.

I hope she prevails.

Tom Daschle talks like a liberal but works like a lobbyist. He’s working behind the scenes to kill health care reform.

And The Wall Street Journal gets right to the point with…

An Air Force C-37A; House appropriators want a couple of the upgraded C-37Bs, the military version of the Gulfstream G550.

You’re going to love this: Last month, the House Appropriations Committee quietly added $132 million to the 2010 defense appropriations bill to…

U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt

Roy Blunt, chair of the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group, has decided that Republicans don’t need their own version of a health care reform plan.

Blunt, of course, is the congressional rep from Springfield, Mo. He’s running…

Guess who wrote this:

It is clear that many in the intelligence community remain in denial about the scope of its intelligence failures. While the report frequently criticizes the Director of Central Intelligence as the primary liaison to the president, the…

What did Nancy know and when did she know it? Those questions are going to have to be answered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the sooner the better.

To avoid being a distraction from the debate on torture, Pelosi…

If reason prevailed, the Colombia free trade agreement would breeze through Congress. Trade with Colombia is not a big deal — barely a rounding error on our nation’s trade balance sheet — and American industry might well gain more in…