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A group of DREAM Act supporters were arrested by Capitol Police this afternoon during a three-day mobilization of students -- many of them undocumented --

The Republican National Committee has started putting out excerpts from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R-La.) response to the as-yet-undelivered prime time speech by

This is a starling quote from the omnipresent Larry Sabato, who tells the Boston Herald that Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s light schedule of

I reported last week on Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wis.) Constitution subcommittee hearing on czars. The subcommittee has released its witness list: T.J.

A community protest against the planned CCA immigrant detention center (Pic courtesy Gail Tyree) Residents of the town of Southwest Ranches and the cities of Pembroke Pines and Weston who oppose a federally funded and privately managed immigration detention center in their area will attend a town meeting tonight to call for the resignation of the mayor and town attorney of Southwest Ranches. The Corrections Corporation of America (commonly known as CCA), the largest private immigration detention contractor in the country, is partnering with Southwest Ranches.

SpeechNow.org, which won a major victory against the Federal Election Commission in a case that came on the heels of Citizens United and expanded the scope of

The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied late last week a request by the state of California for disaster aid after the massive natural gas pipeline

The Wall Street Journal posted a small piece -- reprinting a Volokh Conspiracy post from last month -- attacking Human Rights Watch for raising money in Saudi

I’m a little surprised that ThinkProgress’ pull from Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Express speech this weekend has gotten so much attention. Well, not completely

The focus at conservative Christian policy group Family Research Council this past month has been on fiscal policy -- on the federal government’s and on its

The National Organization for Marriage, fresh off a fairly successful 2009, is asking members to demand that Congress passes a bill forcing a District of

He isn’t the fifth Beatle. But Herman Cain just may be the fifth Koch brother

John Avlon at The Daily Beast has been all over the Young Republicans’ election of new Chairwoman Audra Shay, an Iraq War veteran whose Facebook feed was cited

Adm. Mike Mullen is now joined by the influential former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t

Incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman (R) is bashing Democratic challenger, comedian Al Franken, for not supporting offshore drilling.

The candidates at Saturday’s U.S.

Colorado’s senior member of Congress, U.S. Rep

Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa (Pic via castor.house.gov) A briefing to discuss efforts to restore ecological and economic vitality to the Gulf of Mexico will be held on Wed., Nov.

As I’ve reported on Alaska here at TWI, I’ve tried to keep in mind the theme of Alaska as our last great frontier. During my first trip north, I wrote about