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Gov. Rick Scott — a strong supporter of publicly funded, privately run charter schools — speaks today at the annual summit of Charter Schools USA in Orlando

I just spoke to Kevin Bankston, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior attorney specializing in free speech and privacy law, about his reaction to today’s

Republican officials from twenty-six states and a small business advocacy group asked the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to strike down the entire 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

David Weigel talks Birtherism with Rachel Maddow. On health care lobbying, Obama isn’t living up to his promise of transparency. Does the GOP really have

Voters won’t only get the opportunity to elect a new Congress in exactly three weeks -- in 36 states, they’ll also get to decide the fate of 155 ballot

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy to Mullah Omar and commander of the Taliban’s military forces, was captured by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence in Karachi

Pornography magnate Larry Flynt is offering $1 million to anyone with proof of an “illicit” sexual encounter with Texas governor and Republican presidential

The ACLU of Colorado Thursday announced it has endorsed the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol. “In Colorado we believe our laws should be practical and they should be fair. Yet we are wasting scarce public resources in our criminal justice system by having police, prosecutors and the courts treat marijuana users like violent criminals

Orly Taitz, who really seems to be staring down the end of her 15 minutes of fame, has filed a motion of reconsideration in Barnett et al v. Obama et al, her

Well, this doesn’t look good. CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta was supposed to have his confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on

Rep. Chip Cravaack is facing yet another ad campaign from progressive groups.

As prepared for delivery: I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years,

Politico published an article Wednesday detailing the early moves by potential Republican 2012 presidential candidates to curry favor with elected politicians

Rand Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is touting the first public poll on the GOP primary for next year’s U.S. Senate race. According to the survey,

At the heart of the current foreclosure fraud scandal is an obscure piece of paper -- dramatically titled the note -- that proves how much a borrower owes a

Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, has always been a hapless sort, prone to getting rolled by the Bush

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) made this point about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charges that the CIA misled Congress about torture: On that specific

Before President Obama can sign health reform legislation, lawmakers will need to tackle such thorny issues as the public option, abortion coverage and funding mechanisms.

TWI’s legal reporter Daphne Eviatar made an appearance on the Laura Flanders show this week where she talked about the challenges facing President-elect Barack

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Sen. Julianne Ortman of Chanhassen earned praise for the Log Cabin Republicans on Friday after she was the lone Republican to vote to table a bill that adds a constitutional ban on gay marriage to the 2012 ballot