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Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be

A Republican National Committee debate reveals how GOP party leaders aren’t planning on ideological changes.

This video from Glenn Beck’s show is making the rounds on the right, and it is sort of sublime. Beck, who’s been after interim White House Communications

Dear Justice Dept, I know it’s been a while since we talked, but I felt compelled to reach out to you. I read a report this morning by Brian Ross, Anna

Illegal immigration is down and Department of Homeland Security officials say the Arizona-Mexico border is more secure than ever. But many people still attempt

Former Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton told a congressional panel today that the department, under her tenure, saw its relationship with the oil

The sailing is suddenly much smoother for Leon Panetta’s reported nomination to head the CIA, as California senator and prior Panetta critic Diane Feinstein --

Today on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) took to the chamber floor and asked for unanimous consent to pass his much-discussed bill to raise the

The story out of Colorado is that the Tea Party’s favored Republicans will face the Democrats’ chosen candidates in November, while Connecticut Republican

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, just delivered a floor speech that is deeply

After being repudiated by pillars of the GOP legal establishment over a video that calls Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The first surprise of the first full-blown hearing of the military commissions under President Obama? The presence of David Iglesias, the

Yesterday, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s The Ed Show to talk about his reporting on this past weekend’s How to Take Back America conference in St.

After digging through the newly-disclosed Office of Legal Counsel memos, my friend Marcy Wheeler of Firedoglake discovered that CIA interrogators waterboarded

Bill Kristol’s role in the 1993 health care debate gives him some authority whe he talks about Republican strategy now. His advice for the party on health

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its proposed new rules for air pollution from the oil and natural gas industry today, which the agency says

The risible conspiracy theories about President-elect Barack Obama’s American heritage never really reached the mainstream media. There were some local news

LA CROSSE, Wisc.-- Sen. Barack Obama didn’t spend much time in this small town Wednesday, but the locals will keep drinking Obama cocktails long after the