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There are signs of capitulation -- or at least there is some clarification -- coming from Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the GOP member Democrats believe to be

Some troubling findings today out of the Woodstock Institute, which examined home lending trends in seven major cities to discover that banks have scaled back

In another black mark on the Obama administration’s promised transparency, former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal fight to

The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks nationwide, after lawmakers on Monday easily hopped the procedural

Last week, I noted that House Republicans had introduced a motion to penalize strategic defaulters -- underwater homeowners who simply stop paying their

A local anti-abortion group is set to picket a Children’s Services Council meeting on Thursday morning in an effort to stop funds from going to a local Planned Parenthood for comprehensive sex education programs. The group, St. Lucie Taxpayers against Tax Funding of Planned Parenthood, will protest the possibility of the local Children’s Services Council (CSC) renewing funding to Planned Parenthood after years of contributing to the group

J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman from Arizona who announced a primary bid against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) this month, is all over CPAC. Last night he

Unlike Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who was getting clobbered in his bid for reelection this year, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) had a great shot of retaining the

The now 14-month old case of members of the fringe New Black Panther Party being charged for voter intimidation outside of a heavily Democratic polling place in

The nascent anti-draft to stop Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.), first reported here at TWI, has now swelled to include a Twitter outreach, an earned media radio

Trapped in a deepening fiscal quagmire, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed a budgetary shift that could jeopardize federal stimulus funding

Republicans and even some moderate Democrats have blasted it this week, but a $1.2 trillion House proposal to overhaul the nation’s health care system got an

It’s a testament to Jon Stewart’s extraordinary abilities to speak sensibly in an age of insanity that we expect him to skewer knaves like John Yoo, the former

The local media in West Virginia are having a hard time stomaching the campaign ads (and national news coverage) of the suddenly competitive Senate race in

On Wednesday, I wrote a post reacting to Max Blumenthal’s story James O’Keefe’s Race Problem and was too quick with a description of the August 30, 2006

Today, the Senate voted to move forward to a final, majority-rules vote on the Small Business Jobs Act. Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), who is retiring this

Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin confirm that Sarah Palin’s honorarium for speeches is $100,000, two first class plane tickets and one economy class ticket. On the

It’s worth noting that in his speech this morning, while President Obama said he doesn’t think Congress ought to convene a truth commission along the lines of

Via Felix Salmon, Reuters writer James B. Kelleher has a great, long-form story on unemployed industrial workers and the fate of manufacturing in Michigan. He

So the budget is out. But where’s the roughly $150 million needed for the Obama administration to buy the Thomson Correction Center from Illinois? That’s the

While Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has stripped out most provisions of the $85 billion jobs bill proposed yesterday by Finance Committee leaders, the majority

Two polls -- Rasmussen and a private poll by Tony Fabrizo -- show Marco Rubio gaining a double-digit lead on Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the GOP primary for

The North Korean regime will indict two American journalists from Current TV who had been reporting on North Korean refugees in China. After holding them for