There are two types of questions in politics: those that are important because of the answer and those that are important because of the question.

Joseph Andrew Stack's act this morning fits that definition too. Brian Stelter at the NYT notes that all the networks are treading around the word gingerly. Fox, meanwhile, is running hard and fast with the claim that it wasn't terrorism at all.

Today a man flew a plane into a Texas federal building in an apparent domestic terrorist attack.

Over the last several days, an increasingly shrill chorus of GOP personalities has slammed the Obama administration for defending its decision to process accused Christmas underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab through the civilian court system, rather than some kind of mili …

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lauded the virtues of the Constitution in her Tea Party Convention speech Saturday, but some of her claims appear markedly flawed. Reports over the weekend also challenged her account of recent history on national security and terrorism.

The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States.

Following a pipe bomb explosion Monday night, police and federal law enforcement officials are trying to figure why a Center Avenue man turned his apartment into a bomb factory. Police said no charges have been filed against Mark Campano, 56.

President Barack Obama says helping U.S. service members and veterans continue their education is not only an investment in their future but in the country's future as well. Obama spoke Monday at a ceremony marking enactment of what's called the post-9/11 GI Bill.

PRIMARY school pupils are to be shown a film about the dangers of terrorists as part of an organised safety day.

The murder of Dr. George Tiller has thrust the issue of abortion back into the national spotlight and raised a number of significant questions, not just about abortion itself, but about the moral contradictions facing those who set themselves in opposition to the practice.

In the light of the murder of ObGyn Dr. George Tilller, Rachel Maddow reviews the history of such terrorism in the Uniter States. From "The Rachel Maddow Show," June 1, 2009.

Today's top story is unquestionably the news out of New York: FBI agents and the NYPD have successfully defeated a terrorist plot to blow up synagogues in the Bronx and down an aircraft bound for either Iraq or Afghanistan.

Here is a link to a video clip of the part of the interview where Gore addresses Cheney's behavior: Cheney "shouldn't be talking." And here is a link to a clip of the entire interview: CNN Interview with former VP Al Gore

PUEBLO, Colo. -- A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents.

Last month, Americans were almost evenly divided between those who support the war and those who oppose it, the poll showed, with 47 percent in favor and 51 percent opposed

The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.

James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a "dirty bomb."

Credit where credit is due. The TV show "24" is probably the most significant piece of political drama in the last decade.

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.

Victor Stenger thought of this great original slogan as a possible ad for the bus campaign, or perhaps for something else? Maybe we could start running ads like this as banner ads on popular websites, too?

Sooner or later (as all great civilizations through time have dealt with) America will be attacked by terrorists again.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Oklahoma City -- Tamera Jo Freeman was on a Frontier Airlines flight to Denver in 2007 when her two children began to quarrel over the window shade and then spilled a Bloody Mary into her lap.

RICHMOND | Some legislators want Virginia to join the growing chorus of states that have defied the federal government by refusing to participate in a national identification program billed as a way to fight terrorism and identity theft.

It said these top officials, charged with defending the Constitution and America's standing in the world, methodically introduced interrogation practices based on illegal tortures devised by Chinese agents during the Korean War.

Reality-based observers have long known that the Bush administration's attempts to connect al Qaeda with pre-invasion Iraq have been nothing more than a campaign of misinformation.

Keith debunks the talking points memo put out by the Bush administration trying to rewrite his legacy.

I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted.

An election threat scribbled on the bathroom wall of First Coast High School promised violence if Sen. Barack Obama is elected president. "If Obama is elected as president, the new KKK is going to blow up the school," were written on a school wall.