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In the legislative redistricting process, the Republican-leaning west side of Albuquerque will likely gain seats while eastern and north-central New Mexico will lose them, according to Brian Sanderoff of Albuquerque-based Research & Polling Inc., a longtime consultant to the legislature. He tells Barry Massey of the Associated Press: “It would be impossible mathematically for new representation to not occur on the west side

From Peter Wallston’s piece on the conservative fringe, which contains a lot of stuff that should be familiar to TWI readers, here is the reason Lisa De

I snarked Wednesday about CIA Director Leon Panetta’s assertion that the CIA has lately dealt al-Qaeda a hefty blow, since we don’t really have the visibility

A GOP House candidate won’t rule out a violent overthrow of the government. An escaped crocodile on a plane kills 20 people. Kirsten Gillibrand wishes old

Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going to speed up loan modifications for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, the government announced

Just in time for the 4,000th American death in Iraq, Frontline will air the first installment of an amazing two-part documentary called Bush’s War tonight.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is no fan of the Afghanistan escalation. Let me get this straight, he said, the surge in Afghanistan is about U.S. security

Sarah Palin endorses Marco Rubio as mavericky. Meg Whitman says she’ll pull attack ads -- but not the ones attacking positions. James Cameron plans to

On a call with constituents today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) appeared to agree with callers who said that immigration constitutes an “invasion” of the

The sudden up-tick in HIV-specific laws in African countries has been tied directly to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Housing Works, an organization that advocates for the rights of HIV-positive people in the U.S

Having threatened to renew his intifada against the U.S. and the Iraqi government, Moqtada Sadr has launched a new gambit while his forces are under attack by

A Wisconsin group is alleging that United Way and Planned Parenthood are in cahoots in an effort to draw young girls into abortion facilities in the state.

For weeks, the people of Maryland’s 4th Congressional District have known that their eight-term representative, Democrat Albert Wynn, was on his way out the

Tax cuts in the middle of two wars are OK, but tax hikes to pay the freight of those wars would be irresponsible. That’s the message coming from Rep. Tom Price

The Washington Post reports on the difficult situation the United States is in going into United Nations climate change talks in Cancun at the end of the

Researchers have developed a simple microchip which is capable of successfully identifying HIV and syphilis with less than a drop of blood. The new test is about the size of credit card, and researchers announced that is extremely effective in identifying HIV and syphilis infections, the Washington Post reports .

Of all the possible changes to come out of the election, the biggest potential shift in immigration policy will probably come from which party controls the

The Columbus Metropolitan Club was host Thursday to a fiery debate on Senate Bill 5, the Ohio law that has become the central battlefield ahead of the state’s

When President-elect Barack Obama met with Gen. David Petraeus in July, he struck the right tone. Will the White House relationship with the military keep the same tenor?