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Mary Ann Akers works the Too Much Information beat at the Media Research Center’s annual awards dinner, reporting that Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher

What does National Public Radio have in common with Planned Parenthood? They’re both national organizations, both often despised by the right wing, both

That’s according to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), one of the three Republicans on the Hill who backed the stimulus package, according to Ryan Grim. Even those

Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel who’s making his second run for Congress from a south Florida swing district next year, pens a column for Human Events

Dems hope to boost their Latino cred today. Voinovich: The GOP’s biggest problem is too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. Bush-era letters provide a

Leading headlines this morning are two economic datapoints that count as positive in the current climate. Thursday is the day for weekly jobless claims, and

I guess there must be a bright side for somebody in any economic downturn, and top bankruptcy lawyers seem to have found it. As hard times hit more businesses,

TWI presents the five people who did the most to craft America’s approach to keeping its citizens safe in 2009.

How tax cuts lead to deficits, and higher taxes. You know, the stuff Republicans don’t like to talk about.

Not even a third of the nation’s lowest-income children receive dental care, and Congress isn’t doing a thing about it.

Last week, MIT professor John Reilly called out Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) for intentionally misrepresenting Reilly’s cap-and-trade study to claim that

This is bound to draw some fire from the left: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern

Senator Orrin Hatch just tipped us off as to how Republicans intend to fight the Sotomayor nomination: As a Supreme Court justice, he warned, she’d be in a

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) today joined the growing list of lawmakers who said they want Congressional hearings on the 14th Amendment, specifically its

A top Democrat on Monday warned the nation’s banks that, unless they get more aggressive in modifying mortgages to prevent foreclosure, Congress will renew previous efforts to empower families to keep their homes through bankruptcy.

On February 19, a semi-obscure CNBC commentator expressed his outrage over the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan while reporting from the floor of the

FREDRICKSBURG, Va. -- With post-debate polls largely favoring Sen. Barack Obama, the presidential hopeful is drawing crowds in the tens of thousands in traditionally red states.

Because servicers in the lending industry can make more money collecting delinquency fees on mortgages than by modifying loans, guess which road they are