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Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass) released this weekend the findings of an investigation into the use of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. The investigation finds

The Federal Election Commission agreed Thursday to investigate a complaint GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger filed last month against Fox News, according

TWI national security reporter Spencer Ackerman appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about his game-changing story on the limited

A recent letter from Bishop Patrick Zurek to members of the diocese of Amarillo, Texas, states that Priests for Life President Frank Pavone “remains suspended” from activities outside his diocese. Despite efforts from other members of the anti-abortion rights movement to end the suspension, Zurek said in a public statement recently that Pavone “is to remain in the Diocese for an indefinite period of time for prayer and reflection.” Pavone’s suspension was announced earlier last month over allegations of “financial improprieties.” Zurek wrote in his first letter announcing the suspension that his “decision is the result of deep concerns regarding his stewardship over the finances of the Priests for Life (PFL) organization. The PFL has become a business that is quite lucrative which provides Father Pavone with financial independence from all legitimate ecclesiastical oversight.” Via LifeSiteNews : LifeSiteNews spoke with Fr.

Democrats in Washington are catching on to the idea that they can’t capitulate to an extension of Bush-era tax rates for the rich without at least demanding

As the deadline on a possible federal government shutdown looms today, yesterday’s scheduled meeting between House GOP leaders and the sponsors of a bill to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless was canceled so they could focus on negotiations with the president. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) cancelled the meeting which was to focus on potential ways to offset the cost of the proposed extension. Instead Boehner will attend a meeting at the White House with President Obama to try to prevent a looming government shutdown.

- The ACLU sued Fremont, Neb., over its new immigration regulations, which ban illegal immigrants from working or renting property in the town. The ACLU said

The Republican field hasn’t significantly shifted in terms of rankings placement since our last edition, which belies the fact that individual percentages for candidates continue to shift dramatically. What can be said with a reasonable amount of certainty is that there is no clear and current GOP frontrunner in Iowa.

Quick primary update: Michigan, Kansas, and Missouri all go to the polls today to select a slew of candidates. All three are states where Republicans hope to

Republicans on Capitol Hill were sure quick to go after the new federal guidelines recommending that women should seek routine mammograms beginning at age 50

The anti-abortion rights lobbying and policy organization Americans United for Life has already updated its recently released model legislation guide for

Weeks after announcing its campaign against what they say are sexual abuses by TSA agents, the Libertarian Party of Florida is holding a rally to protest “warrantless and random searches at airport checkpoints.” # The rally will be held this Sunday outside of the Daytona Florida Sheriffs Association convention. According to a press release, the goal of the protest will be “to encourage sheriffs to uphold the Fourth Amendment, as well as Florida statutes on molestation, as they apply to TSA employees.” # Those organizing the protest are encouraging attendees to bring signs urging sheriffs to confront the TSA. # In a July 4 email sent to all 67 of Florida’s sheriffs, Florida Libertarian Party chairman Adrian Wyllie called for the arrest of state TSA agents, writing that the seizure of travelers’ items are a direct violation of the United States Constitution.Wyllie went on to write that searches known as “Enhanced Pat Downs” are “clearly within the definition of felony sexual battery.” # “As Sheriff, you have the absolute duty to enforce the law uniformly and without prejudice,” wrote Wyllie.

Bill Bennett, radio host of Morning in America, censured Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress during his comments at Saturday’s Values Voter Summit in Washington,

Flanked by his newly formed economic transition team at the Chicago Hilton, President-elect Barack Obama today gave his first press conference today. Taking

The original Deepwater Horizon fire (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) According to a plan approved by the Coast Guard and obtained by the Associated Press, BP will no longer be responsible for the cleanup of any oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores, unless officials can prove it came from the BP well that blew out in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending more than 20 million gallons of oil into the gulf. Via the AP : About 90 percent of the Gulf coast has been deemed clean, according to officials. The plan spells out protocol for when an area still needs to be cleaned and when BP’s responsibility for that ends.

People with recently-acquired disabilities have been swimming through an endless sea of red tape to get the U.S. Department of Education to forgive their

Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as wrong a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to

In a reversal vote Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to nix ethanol subsidies, much to the dismay of federal lawmakers who advocate for farmers and ethanol producers.

When I was at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot I met Carl Swensson, an activist from Georgia who was hustling to get people from all 50 states to form citizen

In 2007, Gen. David Petraeus, then the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, testified to Congress about how he envisioned the war ending. It turned out that he had

Guess that historic first vote on single-payer health coverage won’t happen this year after all. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today withdrew his

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are set to answer