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This is from a birther website, but I just can’t resist: Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their

For those of you who missed it, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night featured a terrific and news-breaking interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Foundation for Government Accountability CEO Tarren Bragdon (Pic via floridafga.org) The Foundation for Government, a new Naples-based conservative policy group, has released its latest publication, claiming that Florida’s controversial five-county Medicaid Reform Pilot “has been a decided success.” Foundation CEO Tarren Bragdon writes in his report (.pdf), published by the Heritage Foundation, that the state’s Medicaid privatization plan has “improved the health of enrolled patients, achieved high patient satisfaction, and kept cost increases below average, saving Florida up to $118 million annually.” The report also claims that “if Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot experience were replicated nationwide, Medicaid patient satisfaction would soar, health outcomes would improve, and Medicaid programs could save up to $28.6 billion annually.” The Foundation is a “free market” public policy group that was created by interested parties in Florida looking to bring Bragdon, the former CEO if a similar policy group in Maine, to Florida. So far, the group has not disclosed who those initial donors and interested parties were.

Dennis Blair, director for national intelligence, said the Obama administration has in place a procedure to discuss potential military strikes targeting American citizens believed to be involved with al-Qaeda.

In his zeal for deficit reduction, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has objected to Sen. Patty Murray’s (D-Wash.) bill to provide benefits to homeless woman veterans

I’m thrilled to announce that after nearly two months of heroic interim leadership by Holly Yeager, The Washington Independent has a new editor: Mary Kane, our

I knew that if I said something, I wouldn’t have a job tomorrow, says former miner Chuck Nelson.

As the House passed the 2011 defense authorization bill this afternoon containing a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Defense Secretary Gates issued a video

OXFORD, Miss. -- The Bullet looked downright angry with Sen. Barack Obama after Friday night’s debate. Standing in the Spin Room next to the debate

The legal challenge to Iowa’s same-sex marriage ban will finally come to a close tomorrow, when the Iowa Supreme Court issues its ruling in the case of Varnum

The Michigan House of Representatives passed a series of bills Thursday that will revamp the state’s tax structure, shifting $1.8 billion in taxes from businesses to individuals, including a new tax on pensions. Republicans argue that reducing the tax burden on businesses will allow them to create more jobs, fueling an economic boom.

Another vote on a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed may come to the floor of the Senate as early as tonight,

Though the mainstream media has left the story alone, reports of a new slick of oil spotted about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, near British Petroleum’s Maconda well, have many concerned. Though the theories are un-comfirmed by BP, many worry that the oil might be the result of yet another BP spill . Several samples collected by the Mobile Press-Register in late August bore the same chemical footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil, according to chemists with Louisiana State University

Today and tomorrow, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is delivering his twice-yearly Monetary Policy Report to Congress and taking questions --

A poll released by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday shows that New York voters support a law passed on Friday that legalized same-sex marriage in that state.

Fantastic news for conservatives and libertarians who’ve been pushing this message for years and getting called kooks for their trouble. A new Pew poll has

The New York Times, again with the scoop: The Chinese government abruptly ended on Thursday its unannounced embargo of exports of crucial strategic minerals to

A new Political Action Committee, Michigan Citizens United, has officially begun the process of recalling Gov.

The stimulus package ushers in new contracting oversight, but neglects to fully protect the whistleblowers at the front lines of reform.

As House Democrats head home to their districts, they won’t be alone. Leadership has supplied them with four pocket cards to help them stay on message: The

In a new twist to the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary taking place on August 10, an outside group funded by Democrats and Democratic supporters has booked

Just as a heads up, tonight the TWI staff will be filing dispatches from around the country. We have three reporters in Arizona keeping us updated on the McCain