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Stephen Gordon whacks me for not understanding the fuss over the Department of Homeland Security report: To help Dave find what’s wrong with the report,

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports via video from Columbus, Ohio. Here it is, after the jump:

That’s the total for the committee’s closed-door event with the Fox News host tonight.

This Suffolk University poll brings a little reality back to the question of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) open Senate seat. Three main findings: 1)

Responding to polls that suggested the American people believed the federal government was not adequately responding to the oil spill, President Obama announced

The Carver County GOP took heat this week over a fundraiser that featured an auction that guaranteed face-time with legislators for the highest bidder. According to an email sent to lobbyists, the auction included a chance to go shooting with U.S.

Warren Buffet calls credit derivatives financial weapons of mass destruction. When his company, Berkshire-Hathaway, Inc., took over an insurance company

Campaigning in most races has been going on for months or even years, but Republican strategist Joe Gaylord, a top adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, just said on the Senate floor that he will vote against cloture on the

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, who serves on key Senate intelligence and armed forces committees, issued the following statement on Sunday night’s announcement by President Barack Obama that U.S. special forces killed 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden: Sen.

A fund called The Michael R. Bloomberg Revocable Trust, of which the principal trustee is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, donated $100,000 to a Baton

Republicans and Democrats have been sniping about the USA Patriot Act ever since Congress passed the law in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks to try to forestall another such disaster.

Crimes that occur on military bases are usually heard in the military justice system. But while that may sound harsher than a civilian court, the sentences

Economics reporter Mary Kane reports today on how the $700 billion bailout plan won’t actually help out homeowners facing foreclosure. And, thanks to our

As the Senate begins deliberation today on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the outcome of the vote is pretty clear. As the Los Angeles

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is hosting a fundraiser today for Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D) Senate bid. No one has come right out and said it,

In line with economists’ expectations, the unemployment rate remained at 9.5 percent in July, the Labor Department announced this morning. Overall employment

Now that spring has sprung, Enbridge is beginning to ramp up cleanup efforts on the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek. On July 25, the Enbridge Energy Partners Lakehead Pipeline 6B burst, spewing an estimated one million gallons of thick tar sands crude oil into the two bodies of water, polluting dozens of miles of shoreline, threatening to recontaminate superfund sites, and potential reach Lake Michigan. The EPA and Enbridge were able to stop the flow of oil — both at the pipe and along the river.

Chicago Democrat Mike Quigley won an easy victory yesterday in the contest to replace now-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the House of

If you read the stories in The Wall Street Journal last week or The New York Times this week about campaign contributions from financial companies, you might