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TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll recorded an episode of Bloggingheads.tv that went up today. The theme? The political ironies of

For the second time this week, the House tonight passed a health care reform bill designed to complement the larger reform package that President Obama signed

Bryan Fischer , an analyst for the American Family Association, is well known for controversial statements about LGBT people (“gay sex is a form of domestic terrorism”) and Muslims (inbreeding has caused “lowered intellectual capacity”), false or misleading statements that have landed the AFA on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate groups.” On Thursday, shortly before he interviewed Rep.

I wouldn’t have guessed it, but after looking into the names of 14 people pardoned and another 2 who had their sentences commuted by President George W. Bush

Pelosi fills Kennedy’s shoes on health care. The no’s on the House health bill received one-third more from health insurance interests than the

In a closed-door meeting with industry groups today, the three senators crafting climate legislation revealed the broad strokes of their bill and met with

Seriously, even if the invitation is a diplomatic courtesy, this is unseemly. The goons of the Iranian regime are murdering protesters. They shouldn’t be

The Obama administration today announced plans to abandon a controversial last-minute Bush-era rule that made it easier for mining companies to fill valleys and

The Club For Growth, which is backing GOP candidate Joe Miller in his Alaska Senate bid, released the results of a new survey it commissioned yesterday that

State Sen. Roger Reinert (DFL-Duluth) and state Rep. Carly Melin (DFL-Hibbing) will support Duluth City Council Member Jeff Anderson in his bid for the DFL nomination for the 8th Congressional District

From the department of irony... It turns out that Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.), who announced today that he’ll be resigning over news of an affair with a

A key administration official charged with overseeing the country’s offshore drilling pushed back yesterday against allegations that drilling inspectors in the

One more thing from Adm. Mullen’s Joint Forces Quarterly piece. There’s a brief discussion about how the Taliban optimizes the unity of communications and

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman is filing live updates on the McChrystal-Eikenberry Afghanistan hearings; follow them here. Delegates to the Copenhagen summit will

Rep. Mark Critz (D-Pa.) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught to win his first full term in the House. But it may also be his last: His district is likely to be eliminated by the Republican state government.

The U.S.-Mexico border is more secure than it’s ever been, according to current and former top border officials who appeared at a panel hosted by the Center

The former North Carolina senator kept himself in the spotlight as John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 and as a candidate for president in 2008. But his 2008 bid

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly jobs report, which estimated that 80,000 new non-farm jobs were created during October, and

The Senate today voted against the U.S. House of Representatives budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year, 40-57. The House bill was sponsored by Rep. Paul

Campaign finance reform advocates are still hoping that Congress will pass a bill that sheds light on the $126 million in undisclosed cash that was spent

<p>Monday kicked off this week’s Trade Show at WIREC 2008, anticipated to be the U.S.’s largest renewable energy expo/business conference yet. The White