Frank James

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories. Hurricane Dean strengthened to a Category 5 storm with sustained...

Vice President Cheney quail hunting in 2002. AP Photo/David Bohrer, White House by Frank James I'm not among those who see the invisible hand of Vice President Cheney behind everything...

by Frank James As Sen. Barack Obama competes to be commander-in-chief, he might want to get a quick tutorial on military nomenclature. At the Iowa State Fair last week, he...

by Frank James Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is scheduled to deliver a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City right about now. Of all the Republican...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or most interesting (or both) Washington-related stories. Hurricane Dean plowed into the Caribbean island nation of...

President Bush issued this statement about Hastert today: "It has been a great pleasure forging a close friendship and working relationship with Denny Hastert. He is a good and decent...

Ralph Neas. People for the American Way photo by Frank James Ralph Neas, president of the liberal People for the American Way, or PFAW, is stepping down from that position,...

by Frank James In an attempt to loosen the credit crunch that's been tightening its grip on the economy, the Federal Reserve has announced that its cutting a key rate...

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories. Jose Padilla, the once-alleged "dirty bomber," and two co-defendants were...

by Frank James In the wake of yesterday's news reports that the Bush Administration is considering placing Iraq's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the official U.S. list of terrorist organizations,...