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Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) hasn’t even been sworn in as a U.S. senator, but he’s already making waves. First, his colleague-to-be announced that he’d be voting for

This ad from Tea Party Express is the hardest punch yet from a conservative coalition trying to poison the well for Scott Ashjian, the businessman running as

In the interest of obsessive Kremlinology, something else worth noting from the Washington Post’s timeline of Obama’s decision to declassify last week’s torture

The defense secretary did not indicate a higher likelihood of war, which would threaten Obama’s consensus-building approach.

I know, I know; everyone’s talking about the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer confrontation Thursday night. Yes, it was entertaining, and yes, Stewart made some great

The National Organization for Marriage has just blasted out a statement from its unofficial (but most prominent) spokesmodel, Carrie Prejean. I am a Christian

It’s gotten much less attention than his unilateral revision of Afghanistan’s electoral law, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scaling back a milestone for

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum questioned the media’s coverage of him during a stop in Des Moines on Saturday, and insisted he’s going to win the Jan. 3 Iowa Caucuses by engaging people on a grassroots level

President Obama is expected to sign an executive order Monday ending the controversial ban on increased federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, The

At the Pentagon press briefing to roll out the Nuclear Posture Review -- read the entire document, all of it unclassified, here -- Defense Secretary Robert

The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that Rush Limbaugh is a television personality. The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show

A pair of stories raise questions about the role of big-money contributors in this year’s election. The first, an article from The Washington Post this

At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has capitulated and decided to vote for financial regulatory reform legislation.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Think Progress has a great catch. At the end of an interview with a local TV station in Colorado, Gov. Sarah Palin said she thinks the

Former Bush administration officials are urging the Justice Department to soften the criticisms contained in an ethics report examining the work of the lawyers

The Campaign to Defeat Obama , a political action committee with ties to the Republican Party and the Tea Party Express, has launched a campaign linking Democratic Party lawmakers and President Obama to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is depicted by the organization as “violent mobs.” “Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheeleaders,” writes Campaign chief and right-wing politics public relations consultant Joe Wierzbicki in a release announcing a new campaign ad. Wierzbicki points readers to poll data from Quinnipiac suggesting Americans now view the Occupy movement unfavorably. The new poll finds that support for the violent Occupy Wall Street mobs has fallen further, and since Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheerleaders, it spells trouble for him as well…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) leads the charge against Attorney General Eric Holder’s effort to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in civilian court. But when it comes

The House Armed Services Committee hearing with Gen. McChrystal and Amb. Eikenberry is wrapping up. Two things that we still don’t know, exactly: first, which

It ain’t uplifting, but it’s arguably the most pressing issue facing the country right now, so after the jump, check out TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the omnipresent