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Elana Schor at Talking Points Memo has a great inauguration interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She asked him about TWI’s story last week revealing that

Another Facebook endorsement from Palin, another race turned on its head. This time it’s the Republican primary race for governor in Georgia, where state

That was fast: The Obama administration told Citigroup to get rid of its $50 million jet, just one day after reports about the expenditure made their way into

Either it was very timely or very untimely. This afternoon, we ran a story on a controversial provision in the Senate stimulus bill providing a $15,000 tax

The Afghan police force is, by and large, a corrupt institution that performs the Taliban’s work for it. And yet it’s part of everyone’s plan -- from Gen.

Last week, the North Carolina Independent News reported on the state’s Racial Justice Act -- which allows death row inmates to appeal their sentences if they

In a new chapter of the often topsy-turvy story of the Tea Party era, Colorado Democratic US Rep Diana DeGette this week finds herself championing local government rights against Republican efforts to expand federal power. DeGette on Wednesday urged House and Senate appropriations committees staffers to reject legislative stipulations that aim to prohibit the District of Columbia government from using local tax dollars to pay for abortions as part of its employee insurance policies. “Not only would this proposed language undermine the self-governing rights of the people of the District of Columbia, it would deny low-income women access to basic, constitutionally protected, medical services,” DeGette, co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said in a release.

Here’s how the balloting for the Republican National Committee chair vote works. There are 168 voters: when one man gets 85 votes, he wins. They can choose

As Ken Blackwell took the stage five minutes ago, Ana Marie Cox broke the news that he would drop out and endorse Michael Steele. Once he started talking about

Nancy Youssef at McClatchy reports that the top U.S. civilian and military officials in Iraq, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. Ray Odierno, have given the White

Rush Limbaugh says the Nobel Prize is a greater embarrassment than losing the Olympics. Michael Steele calls it unfortunate. But Huckabee warns

Tomorrow New York Republican Rep. Peter King will open his Homeland Security Committee hearings on the question of whether or not Muslim-Americans are doing enough to help safeguard the nation from terrorism. The hearings have been pilloried as an exercise in attention-grabbing ethnic-baiting and scapegoating and as an essentially unfair government-sanctioned exercise in Islamophobia

TWI’s own Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday to discuss Afghanistan, contractors, and the shocking scandal that has

Below are some photos of yesterday’s People’s Rally in Worcester, the rally that Brown held to counter-program the Obama rally in Boston. The crush of

I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden

A bill to prohibit private health insurers from covering abortion passed the Florida Senate Health Regulations Committee 8 to 4 on Monday. Senate Bill 1414,

Lynne Torgerson launched her second campaign against Rep. Keith Ellison on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend at her home in Golden Valley, calling for a return to “Judeo-Christian values” and labeling Ellison as a “radical Islamist” who wants to do away with the U.S. Constitution.

A bill criminalizing sex- and race-based abortion might soon make its way to the desk of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, as the Arizona Senate approved the bill 21-5

Bailout Nation turns to consumers today, as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson prepares to announce a new program to encourage lending for auto loans, student

The NARAL Pro-Choice America logo (Pic via naral.org ) This week, rumblings on the Internet that Siri, Apple’s new iPhone voice software, is “anti-choice,” have garnered the attention of political advocacy groups on both sides of the abortion debate. Reproductive rights bloggers, such as the Abortioneers , noticed recently that Siri was unable to help women who are seeking abortions, emergency contraception and birth control, among other things.

Immigration advocates may have won a battle in the stimulus package, but the federal program E-verify isn’t going away.

Yesterday’s post about the freerepublic.com habits of Maj. Stefan Cook was re-posted at the site, where it drew (as of right now) 145 comments. From

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as