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In a speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa today, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president, he would fire Chris Cox, the current chairman of the Securities and

Religious conservatives are stepping up the pressure on Republicans legislators as the final week of the legislative session approaches and a proposed amendment to add a ban on gay marriage to the Minnesota Constitution appears stalled. The Minnesota Family Council threatened Republicans that any effort to stall the bill will be redefined as a vote against the bill, while the National Organization for Marriage pleaded that if the bill doesn’t go forward it will encourage “gay marriage activists.” “Contact your legislator and tell them to vote yes on the marriage amendment,” the Minnesota Family Council wrote to supporters

CNN has just released a poll that found 52 percent of Americans, according to a new CNN poll, say Afghanistan has turned into a situation like the U.S. faced

Next year’s defense bill pretty much demolishes the Obama administration’s jury-rigged plan to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by exporting

As Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports, Sen. John McCain appears to have an aversion to campaigning on weekends. According to Martin, the McCain campaign has

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -– Demonstrating the unconventional approach taken by the Human Terrain Team, the team recently interviewed 25

The Charleston Daily Mail had a long sit-down interview with Don Blankenship, the head of Virginia-based Massey Energy, which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine

In memory of Sen. Ted Kennedy, TWI has compiled its recent coverage of the senator and the effect his passing will have on the country.

With a potential crackdown looming, President Obama tells CBS (via Nico Pitney): And I’m very concerned based on some of the tenor -- and tone of the

The incredibly successful, punchy conservative messaging firm -- one year ago, it was dumping negative ads into the NY-20 special election -- is back with an

The jubilant postings on the Facebook page “ We Don’t Want Donald Trump to Drive the Indy 500 Pace Car ” tell the story: “Awesome news!” and “VICTORY!” and “Na-na-na-na. Hey, hey, hey.

The Pentagon’s report yesterday that the conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp meet all the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, was, not

The Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Monday that they’ve reached a partial settlement in a court case involving an Islamic public charter school that blurred the lines between church and state. The case, which has been going on for more than two years, has drawn a lightning-storm of controversy that had Christian conservatives and church-state watchdogs fighting alongside one another

Christina Romer, leaving her position as the head of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers this week, gave a flash response to the jobs report released

Today at the Heritage Foundation, legal experts debated the merits of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision -- with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberal wing

A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds fewer Republicans (16 percent, down from 33 percent last September) and Americans overall (14 percent, down from 23 percent) describing themselves as “angry” with the federal government. # A growing number say they’re “frustrated.” Other options — “basically content” and “don’t know” — remain statistically unchanged

Over at The Huffington Post, Sam Stein has a piece on something kind-of-but-not-totally-similar to a piece I’m working on: progressive-Jewish reactions to Gaza.

It’s not exactly Perrier-pricey, but pretty damn close, according to opponents of the massive proposed Flaming Gorge pipeline project that would pump water out of the Green River in southwest Wyoming and suck it back over the Continental Divide to Colorado’s Front Range. Fort Collins developer Aaron Million recently revised his plans for the project and re-filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan . Million had been seeking approval of the project from the U.S

Just days before a United Nations vote to determine the Palestinian right to statehood, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry lambasted