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Ben Domenech, a former Senate staffer, is hearing the speculation about the first-term senator from Oklahoma. Coburn has less than $60,000 on hand in his

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A study released today ranked the top 100 American companies on how well they disclose their political activities, finding that many companies are moving towards adoption of disclosure policies, although others, such as 3M, are being left behind. The ability for corporations to spend huge amounts of cash on elections without disclosure arose with the U.S

After the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on July 29, 2008, TWI got to wondering how many members of Congress came before him. The answer: at least

The New York Times has a big, excellent piece about the Obama administration’s inability or unwillingness to produce its long-promised metrics for measuring

Michele Bachmann said again that the United States shouldn’t have participated in the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. “My position is that the United States should not have gone into Libya because again the last chapter isn’t written

The New York Times has an excellent in-depth interview with Paul Volcker, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, an advocate for the current financial

The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing group and the national affiliate

A battle between the pork industry and the state of California will soon make national news as the U.S.

The $488-billion for defense was just tacked on to a larger spending bill at the last minute, with no separate vetting by appropriations committees. The lack of oversight leads to increased funding for programs repeatedly criticized by Defense Sec. Robert Gates.

Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute and the blog Rortybomb has a useful chart and paper outlining what to demand from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial

Three pro-immigration reform Republican representatives from Miami made a somewhat awkward endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott Monday,

The Birmingham News noted in an editorial Sunday that the Alabama state constitution, written in 1901, says the state should encourage immigration. This may come as news to state legislators who recently passed immigration restriction laws viewed as the strictest in the country

It looks increasingly as though the Tea Party wing of the Congressional Republican caucus is winning the battle within the caucus on whether or not to avoid budget compromise with Democrats and shut down the government Friday. Republicans cheered the prospect of a shut down behind closed doors this week and some of them have been openly stumping with shut-down rhetoric in their districts.

Mark Blumenthal has delved back into one of the year’s political mysteries: What happened to Strategic Vision, the Republican-leaning polling company that

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board voted last week to eliminate degree programs that were not attracting enough students, including art education,

The attacks keep coming on Obama and his presumptive Supreme Court nominees (such as Sonia Sotomayor, who I wrote about today) who the president expects to be

The University of Texas system is developing a pilot program that would allow students to graduate a year earlier, condensing undergraduate education and

I’ll have a piece shortly on recent polling that shows that an increasing number of Americans are skeptical of the threat of global warming. Evidently,