"If you refuse to answer, you will leave us no choice but to ask for a special counsel or the appointment of a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this. I hope that's not the approach of the IRS going forward, because there will be hell to pay ...

Rep. Charlie Rangel is suing the speaker of the House and a few other colleagues to have his 2010 censure overturned. Bad idea. A Democratic-run House voted 333-79 to rebuke him for a slew of violations first revealed by The Post - and that will neve ...

[caption id="attachment_1657" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]When people look to government for answers in times of crisis, the politicians are happy to oblige, usually with wrong answers. The terrorist attack in Boston has eve ...

[caption id="attachment_1657" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]Imagine Congress passes a law that bans the use of light bulbs entirely in favor of candlelight. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Tran ...

WASHINGTON - The media loves optics, and no one understands this better than President Barack Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) Jefferson Hotel, one of the city's more discreet (and expensi ...

Republican Sen. John McCain is pushing 80 now, but he still has those jaws and the Teddy Roosevelt teeth that look as if they could chomp through a baseball bat. Yet no matter how vital his bite, the Arizona Republican is getting up in years. So he c ...

Bob Menendez is certainly raising new questions about what the Senate means by "foreign relations." As the New Jersey Democrat assumes the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he finds himself facing an FBI probe. Among the most se ...

[caption id="attachment_6780" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)[/caption]During her Senate testimony, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that approximately 25 Americans who were on the ground or who witnessed ...

Just 17 months ago, Washington raised the nation's debt limit to $16.39 trillion, the largest debt ceiling level in our nation's history. But because this increase didn't include serious spending reductions, it didn't take long to reach this borrowin ...

USA Today - Former senator Chuck Hagel is a war hero and public official who has served America honorably. However, his views on foreign and defense policy are out of the mainstream, and he is not a good fit for secretary of Defense. I expect to oppo ...