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Sen. John McCain has an op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times today about the potential government bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Here’s the first

Yesterday I mentioned, randomly, how attacking Democratic presidential candidates on guns is usually a ploy. The Feds won’t take away people’s guns, no

The New York Times dug through some new financial records to discover that Wall Street has been nearly as good to Larry Summers as Larry Summers is now being to

Erik Prince, heir to one of Michigan’s richest and most conservative families and founder of Blackwater, is still getting government contracts now that he sold off the nation’s largest private military company — but now those contracts are with the United Arab Emirates. The New York Times reports : Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital.

TWI’s Laura McGann, our temporary Anchorage bureau chief, just posted an enlightening piece about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Though the GOP vice-presidential

Something else that’s interesting in Joe Klein’s interview with Sen. Barack Obama. Yesterday we saw John McCain severely misrepresent what the impending

Concessions to moderates would make it difficult for urban clinics to obtain federal money.

SARANAC LAKE, NY - Will Doug Hoffman mount another bid for Congress in 2010? Jim Tedisco, the other New York GOPer who lost a special election in neighboring

The hardship of raising the retirement age falls disproportionately on low-income workers who work in physically demanding professions, and have not shared in life-expectancy gains.

In this deteriorating economy, wealthy people who used to spend their money freely on exotic vacations and $8,000 Birkin bags supposedly are cutting down their

On Capitol Hill right now, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is moderating a bicameral response to President Obama’s health care push, which heads

That’s one of the questions coming up in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit being argued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 23 lawyers

A new CBS News/New York Times poll (PDF) shows that 56 percent of Republican voters do not feel enthusiastic about any of the official or prospective GOP

As part of the required National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process, officials from the U.S. Air Force and Clovis’s Cannon Air Force Base held another public hearing last night in Las Vegas about its plans for low-altitude tactical navigation (LATN) training flights over southeast Colorado and eastern New Mexico.

T. Boone Pickens, today: They’re opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We’re entitled to it, Pickens said of Iraq’s oil.

I’ve noticed for weeks that Sarah Palin’s memoir Going Rogue had been heavily discounted at Amazon.com, a result of a price war between the online retailer