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Politico has a long article today on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who runs the Republican Governors Association (RGA), and how he is, well, powerful. The

Private employers added just 1,420 jobs per state in July -- not nearly enough to make up for job losses in the government, 50,000 of which were

Well, not no one, but only a quarter of people polled by Rasmussen Reports could correctly identify what cap-and-trade legislation pertained to. Given a

House Democrats, who’d hoped to build momentum for health reform by passing a bill before the August vacation, hit a wall in the form of conservative-leaning

Nicholas Forte has spent the last year with an array of health issues. Headaches

The Republican majority on the state House Judiciary committee voted Thursday to support House Bill 241 , which would render useless local wage theft ordinances that help workers who have been stiffed of their earned wages by dishonest employers. # A statewide construction business coalition , the National Federation for Independent Businesses and the Florida Retail Federation (the latter of which has legally challenged the constitutionality of Miami-Dade County’s wage theft ordinance) support the bill, filed by Rep. Tom Goodson, R-Titusville.

Environmentalists woke up to a welcome surprise this morning, as The New York Times and other outlets reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- arguably the

Under a provision added to a rulemaking bill that cleared a House panel Wednesday , Gov. Rick Scott and members of the state cabinet may soon be able to bypass normal procedures and repeal hundreds of state agency rules currently under review by using an expedited “summary process.” # When Scott took office, he issued an executive order calling for a review of all agency rules under his purview. Executive agencies are currently reviewing thousands of rules — 11,118 as of Thursday evening. Some 1,423 rules or portions of rules have been recommended for repeal and 1,171 have been recommended for revision

Democratic organizations and candidates are starting to strike back against Americans for Prosperity’s $4.1 million ad buy attacking nearly two dozen Dems in

Catherine Engelbrecht is just a suburban Houston soccer mom, an accidental activist with a cowboy hat and a dream to help get America back on track. That’s the

<p>The next round of the hard-fought Democratic presidential nomination race between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

Forget what you think you know about school libraries and the librarians in charge of them. The stereotypical book-lined room so quiet the still is deafening has been erased from Van Meter Community Schools, and in its place is a room still with books on the shelves, but lively with conversation as groups of students pore over and discuss applications for a never-ending flow of Internet-driven information.

Here’s Sarah Palin’s original TV ad from her 1996 run for mayor of Wasilla, AK. She looks a little less pitbull, a little less Tina Fey, and a lot more 1980s

A shadowy political action group formed by two key supporters of President Barack Obama has chosen to use its first ad to attack former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by using the words of former U.S.

The Center for American Progress has released a detailed road map of just how Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) should combine various climate and energy

Max Blumenthal talks with birther lawyer Orly Taitz (who won’t talk to TWI anymore, sadly) and draws out a nice timeline of the Obama birth conspiracy. One

With the news that the popularity of cash for clunkers has already consumed the program’s $1 billion allotment comes the inevitable rehashing of the debate over

Boundaries dividing Minnesota’s Congressional districts have shifted around Rick Nolan since he served in the U.S. House of Representatives three decades ago, but Nolan said the values of the region that first sent him to Congress haven’t changed.

Another observation about the troubles facing Senate Democrats as they struggle to push consumer-friendly cramdown legislation through the upper chamber this

I didn’t watch President George W. Bush’s valedictory speech. As it happens, I was at my gym, using one of the elliptical machines with the personal TV screens.

If there was any doubt that 2008 was the Democrats’ best chance of taking out Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) -- their effort was hobbled by a third-party