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PHILADELPHIA -- With a steady stream of info on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- including a torrent from TWI’s own Laura McGann, now on the scene in Alaska --

Bloomberg’s long-standing Freedom of Information Act request for a look at who in the financial system took part in the Fed’s now-secret $2 trillion loan

Politico has a story that notes today’s conservative movement is essentially getting bankrolled by ten wealthy donors. Having shied away during the end of the

You know, spending a lot of time dredging through the public record on torture is a rather depleting exercise. So it’s a glass of lemonade in a desert to read

One point about this Iraqi Interior Ministry raid conducted by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s forces. I noticed my reporting about it earlier today had a fair

Under intense grilling from Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) this afternoon, Judge Sonia Sotomayor was forced to confront directly her words in various speeches to

The mortgage crisis might have been at the root of the global economic meltdown, but housing legislation seems destined to be among the last things Congress

The American Petroleum Institute is taking issue with a crowd estimate included in a story I linked to yesterday that was published in our sister-publication,

Detainees U.S. Government 32 9 Below is a list of the Guantanamo habeas corpus cases in which the detainee won. Information compiled by Pro

Paul Volcker, former Fed chair and current Economic Recovery Advisory Board chair, says that it’s time for Goldman Sachs to make a choice: Either it’s a bank or

The Community Reinvestment Act has been a lightning rod for conservative criticism for years, but the scorn really took off when the housing market collapsed last year.

Speaking on Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scorecard yesterday, Associated Industries of Florida CEO Barney Bishop lashed out at the Obama administration — arguing that overregulation, specifically on the part of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, is “killing” the economy. # As head of Associated Industries, Bishop has been highly critical of the EPA, specifically for proposing a set of numeric nutrient criteria to stave off nutrient pollution in Florida waterways. The criteria would likely help rid Florida of its fish kills and algal blooms (the result of phosphorus and nitrogen, often present in industry waste), but would also cost agriculture and utility groups millions.

More Gates-love. This is a post written by Dave Dilegge, editor of the invaluable counterinsurgency blog Small Wars Journal, the day after Obama’s election: We

I’ve just spoken to Andrew Breitbart, the proprietor of Big Government--the website which published and promoted James O’Keefe’s undercover sting of ACORN

Wall Street sure does like the thought of Tim Geithner running the Treasury Dept. next year. (The Dow surged 494 points Friday as the news leaked, and 397

Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith’s Dec. 22 switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP hasn’t played out terribly well so far. And here’s another piece of

The Senate will vote Monday evening on legislation extending unemployment benefits -- a procedural vote that could clear the way for final passage as early as