David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Major Nidal Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood shootings and will be tried in a military court. The Army apparently sees no reason to treat the case as one of terrorism or turn it over to federal prosecutors, and the FBI has released a statement saying [...]

Colorado Republican State Senator Dave Schultheis had the dubious honor of being named “Worst Person in the World” on Thursday by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann for his unfortunate use of Twitter.
“Don’t for a second, think Obama wants what is best for U.S.,” Schultheis tweeted. “He is flying the U.S. plane right into the ground at [...]

In the wake of an AP report on Wednesday that President Barack Obama is not satisfied with any of the options on Afghanistan he has received from his national security team and is demanding revisions, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow turned to veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh for insight.
“It could be huge,” Hersh told Maddow, “simply that [...]

Fox News is once more actively promoting the tea party movement, with Gretchen Carlson of Fox & Friends noting enthusiastically on Thursday that “the second national Tea Party Express Tour has covered nearly seven thousand miles!”
Host Steve Doocy then spoke with Tea Party Express co-chair Mark Williams, asking him about “the thousands, and in some [...]

In an interview Wednesday with columnist Roland S. Martin, Gen. Colin Powell said that on the issue of sending additional troops to Afghanistan he had advised President Obama to “take your time” and “not be rushed into a decision.”
“This one is the decision that will have consequences for years to come,” Powell said he’d [...]