U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program  —  The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs …

George W. Bush critics turn wrath on President Obama  —  A club of Capitol Hill liberals made life hell for George W. Bush in his second term.  —  Now the gang is back — and they don't care that this time the president is their guy.  —  In the last few weeks, some of the loudest anti-Bush voices …

Christie appoints Chiesa to fill Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat  —  TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie tapped state Attorney General Jeff Chiesa as New Jersey's next U.S. senator.  —  Chiesa, 47, will serve in the U.S. Senate until residents elect someone to replace him during the Oct. 16 special election.

Why Obama Keeps Losing at the Supreme Court  —  In cases before the Supreme Court last year, President Barack Obama's Justice Department relied on outlandish legal theories that pushed a constitutional interpretation of extreme federal power.  That posture led to unanimous losses in three …

Global Warming and the Gipper  —  Critics of America's policy on carbon emissions accuse it of being a prisoner of free-market ideology.  On the contrary, it was the product of hardheaded pragmatism.  —  Might it be that it was Ronald Reagan and not Barack Obama who began to slow the rise of the seas?

President Obama's let's-have-a-debate defense  —  The Obama administration has a familiar refrain on the surveillance of Americans' telephone records: the president and his team are eager to have the debate.  —  Eager, that is, only after others have brought the tactics to light and the administration has spent years employing them.