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It’s not everyday that lawmakers with top ratings from the National Rifle Association go around criticizing the powerful gun lobby. But regarding the NRA’s bid

Last night, TWI’s Annie Lowrey talked to Chris Hayes, guest host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, about the burgeoning political consciousness of unemployed

A Pew Hispanic Center study released today provides hard numbers to the debate about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship for children born to illegal

With the House reconvened in a special session to pass a crucial state aid bill yesterday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) took to the floor to deliver a rambling

Via Brian Faughnan, here’s former Rep. J.D. Hayworth testing the waters for a 2010 challenge to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). There is something you can do right

Equating today’s rising credit card rates to usury, several House Democrats today announced plans to introduce legislation capping credit card rates at 16

Jason Wu Trujillo, UVA Law’s Senior Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, has emailed TWI about Marcus Epstein’s law school plans. Mr. Epstein is

Flanked by his newly formed economic transition team at the Chicago Hilton, President-elect Barack Obama today gave his first press conference today. Taking

The original Deepwater Horizon fire (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) According to a plan approved by the Coast Guard and obtained by the Associated Press, BP will no longer be responsible for the cleanup of any oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores, unless officials can prove it came from the BP well that blew out in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending more than 20 million gallons of oil into the gulf. Via the AP : About 90 percent of the Gulf coast has been deemed clean, according to officials. The plan spells out protocol for when an area still needs to be cleaned and when BP’s responsibility for that ends.

People with recently-acquired disabilities have been swimming through an endless sea of red tape to get the U.S. Department of Education to forgive their

Yesterday, Larry Summers -- former Harvard president and lauded economist -- announced he will leave his position as the head of the National Economic Council

That press release from the U.S. military in Iraq announcing that U.S. planes fired on Sons of Iraq militiamen who were planting roadside bombs? Note its

Immigrant and Latino advocacy groups, as well as some media watchdogs, are cheering the news today that longtime CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has resigned. The Drop

Blink and you’ll miss Secretary of Defense Bob Gates giving the back of his hand to Vice President Dick Cheney during a Q&A session yesterday at the

It’s one of the year’s slower news days, a perfect time for this rap from Hi Caliber. The best line, in my opinion: The population of the march was over a

The 180 website header (Pic via 180movie.com) A group that fights anti-Semitism has denounced a film popular among anti-abortion activists linking abortion to the Holocaust.

The bankruptcy experts over at creditslips.org, while careful to shy away from actually going down that road, nonetheless picked apart the comments on

A year out from the 2012 election for U.S. Senate, incumbent DFLer Amy Klobuchar has raised $1 million and has $4 million in the bank, while her Republican challengers have taken in a fraction of that. Combined, Joe Arwood and Dan Severson have raised only $50,000 and have about $35,000 in the bank.

Today, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio), the House minority leader, sent a letter (PDF) to the White House asking President Barack Obama to tally the pending

The Associated Press reports that two additional nonprofits that support conservative causes -- Americans for Job Security and The 60 Plus Association -- have

What do the Gulf oil spill and MTV’s Jersey Shore have in common? Well, nothing. Except this: A recent survey found that BP Spillcam, the underwater camera

Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as wrong a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to