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Oh, right, and at the Association of the U.S. Army this morning, Defense Secretary Robert Gates also echoed national security adviser Jim Jones’ remarks urging

The ACLU is accusing immigration authorities of disregarding the rights of the mentally ill in a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleging Immigration and Customs

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 12, 2009. In a phone interview with TWI

When the Census Bureau announced it planned to spend $80 million of its $340 million ad campaign on outreach to hard-to-reach communities -- including

Not very. Speaking to reporters today, newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner all but dismissed the idea outright: We have a financial system that

Good news! It’s not too late to join a 2008 presidential campaign team. Ralph Nader’s latest (and last?) effort is trying to sign up volunteers to help

Here’s something interesting from my favorite new Washington gossip blog, Unattributable: According to one Democratic senator, the Senate Judiciary Committee

In an interview with D.C. newspaper The Hill, Rick Santorum — a former Pennsylvania senator and possible contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination — says based on the reception he’s received on his numerous visits to Iowa, he believes he could surprise everyone with a win in the first-in-the-nation caucuses. The Hill depicts Santorum’s 2012 chances in Iowa’s caucuses as a dependent on which other socially conservative candidates enter the race, such as U.S.

<p>CLEVELAND -- Spend some time in Cleveland, and it&rsquo;s easy to understand why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama

Just a few weeks after the Army Corps of Engineers approved a controversial mountaintop mine in Kentucky without a peep from the Environmental Protection

For anyone wondering if Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) is in his right mind challenging Rep. John Dingell (Mich.), the longest-serving Democrat in Congress, for the

Ideological organizations often make for more sympathetic plaintiffs than business groups, and they’ve had considerable success in striking down campaign finance restrictions.

The Nebraska legislature, meeting in a special session to deal specifically with the Keystone XL pipeline that would cross their state, may be on the verge of passing a bill that could give the governor control over the route that pipeline would take. On Wednesday, the Natural Resources Committee voted 7-1 to send a bill to the full legislature that would require all oil pipeline companies to have the routes of their pipelines certified by a state panel headed by the governor before starting construction.

A New Mexico district court judge ruled that the Martinez administration can continue its investigation into the residency of foreign nationals holding driver’s licenses, but must show “good cause” for doing so. Judge Sarah Singleton said the state cannot send out more letters to determine the residency of other foreign nationals who have driver’s licenses or follow up as to why some 4,200 did not respond to letters, but may continue investigations when there is “good cause” for fraud. She said that investigating solely on the basis of nationality violated the Equal Protection Clause for citizens and noncitizens alike.

A SurveyUSA/KSTP poll released Wednesday evening found that a slim majority of Minnesotans would vote for a ballot initiative that would place a ban on gay marriage in the Minnesota Constitution. According to the poll, 51 percent of registered voters surveyed said they would vote in favor of the amendment, while 40 percent say they’d vote against it. Eight percent said they would not vote either way.

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Yesterday afternoon, the McCain campaign sent out word that Sen. John McCain would hold a press conference at about 8 a.m. this morning at

The EPA seal (Pic via sentryjournal.com) The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded seven universities in the southeast — one of which is Daytona’s Embry-Riddle — People, Prosperity and the Planet Phase I grants for the 2011-2012 school year. According to a press release, the grants will go toward designing “creative solutions to sustainability challenges in the developed and developing world” and will challenge students “to design and build sustainable technologies that improve quality of life, promote economic development and protect the environment.” Daytona Beach’s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University was awarded a $12,845 rant to help design a portable solar water purification system for public use during disaster recovery

A new report shows that despite the unusually high national unemployment rate, some specific industries are facing shortages of skilled workers, shortages that

Potential presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty scored a coup yesterday when he announced that he has signed on Nick Ayers to be his campaign manager. Ayers, a deeply religious 28-year old, is the former head of the Republican Governors Association, a group that funneled money into Minnesota’s Future to run negative ads against Mark Dayton during the 2010 gubernatorial election