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First announced in May 2009, Tucker Carlson’s new conservative website The Daily Caller is launching on Jan. 11. The next day, fans and friends (no crashers!)

Shahien Nasiripour at the Huffington Post parses a J.P. Morgan filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and notes that the bank, the second largest in

This exchange aboard Air Force One with Gen. Jim Jones, the national security adviser, and Denis McDonough, the National Security Council’s chief of staff,

Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s (R-Mich.) ill-advised decision to send out a fundraising letter promoting his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of last

It isn’t the $15,000 tax credit that passed the Senate, but first-time homebuyers probably won’t complain about the $8,000 credit that wiggled it’s way into

I’m pleased to welcome Jamelle Bouie into the fold as a TWI guest blogger. Jamelle blogs about American politics and public policy at True/Slant (check out his

With legal challenges simmering in Texas, Houston tea party group King Street Patriots is expanding its activities, geographically and demographically. KSP

Rep. Steve Simon, DFL-St.

CARROLL — As he surged to the top of two national polls Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spent nearly three hours at the Santa Maria Winery in Carroll on Monday, speaking with voters, taking questions, signing books and screening a movie he co-developed celebrating Pope John Paul II. Gingrich also conducted a 10-minute interview with The Carroll Daily Times Herald and La Prensa , an Iowa Spanish-language newspaper, before going on air nationally with Fox News’ Sean Hannity from a makeshift, temporary studio on the west side of the winery. It was Gingrich’s second visit to Carroll in the campaign cycle, and momentum had turned decidedly in his favor in the hours before he addressed nearly 200 people at John and Rose Guinan’s local winery.

The vote might have been delayed, and it might have been stacked with an irrelevant gun amendment, but legislation to protect consumers from the most abusive

Over at Mother Jones, Kate Sheppard asks a good question: Was the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill, debated ad nauseum and eventually passed by the House

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Obama strategy review for Afghanistan is considering middle paths for the eight-year war -- something along the lines of

Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR), released a new report this morning showing a surprising amount of waste on a key

Republicans and Democrats both see code in key words.

Building off Matt’s excellent post about today’s outbreak of GOP enthusiasm for torture and lawlessness, check out this just-released paper from Ken Gude at the

Former Congressman Pete Hoekstra has racked up more high profile endorsements — this time from other states. CNN reports that Hoekstra has picked up the endorsements of Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), Gov.

With the growing number of Republican Senators saying they’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- Dick Lugar of Indiana, Mel Martinez of Florida

If you are a renter or someone who took out a simple 30-year fixed mortgage, it’s not surprising that you might feel like the mortgage crisis is, well, not

For Democrats left dumbfounded over Republican Scott Brown’s shocking Senate win in Massachusetts yesterday, the short response statement from Senate Majority

New Department of Homeland Security agreements governing state and local police departments’ enforcement of immigration laws are not relieving their critics’