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The Washington Post reports that President Obama said yesterday that the U.S. detention facility will remain open past the January 2010 deadline for closure he

Faced with the prospect that New York lawmakers will make gay marriage the law there this week, Christian organizations are touting new polling data that runs counter to data brought out in waves by major nationally respected firms such as Gallup over the last two years showing fast-expanding support among the U.S.

TWI’s own David Weigel -- arguably the world’s foremost expert on and chronicler of the birthers -- went on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk

At today’s Heritage Foundation briefing, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told the audience of conservative bloggers that ’Republican’ still isn’t a positive

Budget negotiators from the Florida House and Senate agreed to a plan that would privatize state prisons in an 18-county region that includes the southern part of the state — the entire area below a line from Manatee County in the west to Indian River County in the east. # Under the proposal, the Department of Corrections could either award the entire region to a single company, or could divide the region into smaller pieces. The deal would have to be approved by the Joint Legislative Budget Commission

As the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) works to catch up on a backlog of old spill enforcement cases dating back several years, the method by which the state regulatory agency publicizes any fines that are levied against operators has become a topic of conversation for conservation groups tracking the industry. An informal survey of environmental watchdog groups conducted by the Colorado Independent found that opinions vary on the degree of transparency on spill enforcement cases provided by Colorado regulators. The Garden Gulch spill icefall.

The Environmental Protection Agency, on its Web site, describes air quality on the U.S.-Mexico border as abysmal and getting worse, due to rapid

The American Independent has long reported on inconsistencies in federal acknowledgment of marijuana’s medical benefits. These came to a head in March, when

Not being on Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s trip to the Middle East this week, I couldn’t ask him whether this is related to the expected request from Gen.

For much of the year, both Democrats and Republicans have tried to avoid looking like big spenders, disavowing earmarks and trying to outflank one another on

Reid Wilson reports that 82 House Republicans have donated to State Rep. Jim Tedisco’s campaign for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D) vacated seat in New York’s

Federal strategies for tackling climate change are doomed to fail without concerted efforts to keep Americans out of their cars -- efforts that will necessarily include a greater emphasis on public transit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

A four-year pending criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kans., has been scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 24-27 to

The presidential campaign of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann announced that Republican pollster Ed Goeas has left her campaign, the third high-profile resignation for the campaign in a month

The immigration debate — comprehensive immigration reform versus just immigration enforcement — is a difficult one, even for Miami Republican and U.S.

As first noticed by Marcy Wheeler this morning, former Senate intelligence committee chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.) went on the Brian Lehrer radio show and said

At Friday’s Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity (AFP) in Washington, D.C., not only is David Koch not the proverbial

The federal poverty rate in the United States is expected to be 15 percent when 2009 census data are unveiled later this year, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. But

Could an ex-football coach, a former Reagan official or a farmer/rancher have what it takes?

Former two-term Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty was said to be on a short list of John McCain’s vice-presidential picks in 2008. Now, with another trip to Iowa planned for next month , Pawlenty says a decision on his own bid for the 2012 Republican nomination will come in March or early April.