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The conservative reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address is not universally positive, but it’s close. Kathleen Parker, whose conservative but

Anyone who thinks that the only thing better than one Democratic governor embroiled in a pay-to-play scandal is two Democratic governors embroiled in

We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official -- West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is running in his state’s special Senate election. He announced his

From Friday, but still worth noting, is a rather comprehensive list compiled by the Think Progress blog of all the monetary pledges conservative groups have

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the group behind a federal lawsuit against Perry for his involvement in a controversial Aug. 6 prayer rally, is revving up

At the Heritage Foundation, Manny Miranda floated the theory that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could sink her own nomination by being overly firey and

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) Mother Jones reports that presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has received an endorsement from former Rep.

A Guantanamo detainee’s transfer to the United States for trial is at odds with the president’s call for a new system of indefinite imprisonment.

NASHVILLE -- I’m so proud to be an American! Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin took the stage of the National Tea Party Convention to a thundering

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Health Board Chair Douglas Laube is voicing strong opposition to Mississippi’s proposed “fetal personhood” amendment, which will be voted on tomorrow. Amendment 26 aims to grant legal rights to fertilized eggs; the measure could have severe consequences for women’s reproductive health

Carrie Johnson in The Washington Post today picks up on a problem we’ve been writing about at TWI for months now: when it comes to information about crimes

Wednesday’s protests at the Capitol were many times larger than those on Tuesday, with teachers, laborers, nurses, firefighters, police officers and senior citizens filling up the entire front lawn to hear calls to action from political leaders. Here are some images from the rally.

Clearing the way for an Obamanik, Gordon England, the deputy secretary of defense since 2005, is on his way out. From the official Pentagon

With a cloture vote to open formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill scheduled for 5 p.m. this evening, Senate Democrats

Via Eric Kleefeld, a new CNN poll shows President Obama’s plan to end the war in 2011 to be astoundingly popular: 70 percent approve and 29 percent don’t. It’s

China, where, as a matter of policy, the yuan is deliberately undervalued in order to keep Chinese exports cheap, is now attacking the U.S. for its weak

Hurricane McCain arrived in Florida today. To coincide with Sen. John McCain’s two-day visit, the Florida Democratic Party unveiled a new Website that features

It was early and the traffic, as always, was slow moving into downtown Friday morning.

NASHVILLE -- The woman dubbed by the Orange County Register as queen of the birthers arrived at the National Tea Party Convention today and did what she

Despite a courts-driven redistricting plan that could drastically reshape Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, candidates are lining up to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack. Swept into Congress in the 2010 Republican tidal wave, Cravaack is widely viewed as vulnerable, and a slate of accomplished candidates from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party attests to that perceived weakness.

Matt touched on this, but, seriously. There was a lot of talk from Obama about how his national-security team understands the integrated challenges of 21st

A number of sites have featured a hypothetical electoral map entitled This Is What the 2008 Electoral Map Would Look Like if the Election Were Decided by 18-29

So reports The Associated Press. The commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia was diagnosed in February and has undergone two months of