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A Guantanamo Bay detainee who The Washington Post recently outed as a widely used but unreliable informant on his fellow prisoners won a court order for his

Environmentalists woke up to a welcome surprise this morning, as The New York Times and other outlets reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- arguably the

Catherine Engelbrecht is just a suburban Houston soccer mom, an accidental activist with a cowboy hat and a dream to help get America back on track. That’s the

Under a provision added to a rulemaking bill that cleared a House panel Wednesday , Gov. Rick Scott and members of the state cabinet may soon be able to bypass normal procedures and repeal hundreds of state agency rules currently under review by using an expedited “summary process.” # When Scott took office, he issued an executive order calling for a review of all agency rules under his purview. Executive agencies are currently reviewing thousands of rules — 11,118 as of Thursday evening. Some 1,423 rules or portions of rules have been recommended for repeal and 1,171 have been recommended for revision

Democratic organizations and candidates are starting to strike back against Americans for Prosperity’s $4.1 million ad buy attacking nearly two dozen Dems in

<p>The next round of the hard-fought Democratic presidential nomination race between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

Forget what you think you know about school libraries and the librarians in charge of them. The stereotypical book-lined room so quiet the still is deafening has been erased from Van Meter Community Schools, and in its place is a room still with books on the shelves, but lively with conversation as groups of students pore over and discuss applications for a never-ending flow of Internet-driven information.

It’s getting worse with each hour after Dave’s post. Last night former Vice President Dick Cheney elided the distinction between valuable intelligence that came

In 2010, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a tax-exempt nonprofit trying to thwart the legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the U.S.,

Here’s Sarah Palin’s original TV ad from her 1996 run for mayor of Wasilla, AK. She looks a little less pitbull, a little less Tina Fey, and a lot more 1980s

A shadowy political action group formed by two key supporters of President Barack Obama has chosen to use its first ad to attack former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by using the words of former U.S.

The Center for American Progress has released a detailed road map of just how Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) should combine various climate and energy

I didn’t watch President George W. Bush’s valedictory speech. As it happens, I was at my gym, using one of the elliptical machines with the personal TV screens.

Another observation about the troubles facing Senate Democrats as they struggle to push consumer-friendly cramdown legislation through the upper chamber this

With the news that the popularity of cash for clunkers has already consumed the program’s $1 billion allotment comes the inevitable rehashing of the debate over

Max Blumenthal talks with birther lawyer Orly Taitz (who won’t talk to TWI anymore, sadly) and draws out a nice timeline of the Obama birth conspiracy. One

Boundaries dividing Minnesota’s Congressional districts have shifted around Rick Nolan since he served in the U.S. House of Representatives three decades ago, but Nolan said the values of the region that first sent him to Congress haven’t changed.

If there was any doubt that 2008 was the Democrats’ best chance of taking out Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) -- their effort was hobbled by a third-party

Nuclear Posture Review stuff kept me from blogging this when the release went out during Secretary Gates’ press conference, but an initial report from the NATO

Last week, a Rasmussen poll showed that Donald Trump was riding the birther conspiracy theory wave in becoming the Republican Party’s unlikely frontrunner for

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after spending much of 2009 pushing against the Obama administration’s call for a settlement freeze, has proposed a

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