Kabul is waiting for President Hamid Karzai's promised Loya Jirga, where the country's political elite would examine whether to approve the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) authorizing a U.S. military presence after the 2014 transition. Most are betting that Karzai will soon call the country's elders together to bless the agreement. Some fear his message will be to kill it.

The United States Senate is meeting this month to discuss a treaty that would promote access and equality for all people with disabilities around the world.  This pact would extend the same rights that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ensures for people with disabilities in this country.

As lawyers representing the bereaved families and victims of terrorist attacks funded, supported and perpetrated by the Iranian regime, we are both surprised and dismayed at Under Secretary Wendy Sherman’s failure to respond to our letter last month calling for the remembrance and due reparation of the victims of terror in her diplomatic effort with the Iranian regime in the most current round of negotiations.

In a recent Congress blog, Robert Gittelson accuses the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and other like-minded organizations advocating for immigration reductions and enforcement of not being conservative, and for not looking out for the best interests of the Republican Party. FAIR doesn’t deal in labels or partisan politics, just facts and ideas.