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North Carolina state Sen. James Forrester, of Gaston County, died Monday at the age of 74. Forrester was the lead author of a constitutional amendment that, if

After the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on July 29, 2008, TWI got to wondering how many members of Congress came before him. The answer: at least

Politico named the potential matchup between former Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra and incumbent Democratic Sen.

Michele Bachmann said again that the United States shouldn’t have participated in the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. “My position is that the United States should not have gone into Libya because again the last chapter isn’t written

Via the Corner at the National Review Online: Two departments within the city of Los Angeles received $111 million from the 2009 American Recovery and

The New York Times has a big, excellent piece about the Obama administration’s inability or unwillingness to produce its long-promised metrics for measuring

The New York Times has an excellent in-depth interview with Paul Volcker, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, an advocate for the current financial

A bunch of liberal bloggers are criticizing Time magazine’s David Von Drehle for this line about the 9/12 protests in the lede of his story about Glenn

During Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s speech/town hall meeting Tuesday at Howard University in Washington, a 23-year old college

The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing group and the national affiliate

It’s worth taking some time to read Sam Stein’s piece on the New York Post and its disgruntled ex-employee Sandra Guzman. Her story, and her complaint against

Two pieces of news from the Republican National Committee summer meeting in Kansas City. First, the RNC’s budget committee approved a $10 million line of credit

The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false. The television ad from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, running statewide on the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the EPA wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming activities

UPDATE: The original version of this article incorrectly listed earmarks from Fiscal Year 2010 as requests in Fiscal Year 2011. TAI drew those numbers from

The $488-billion for defense was just tacked on to a larger spending bill at the last minute, with no separate vetting by appropriations committees. The lack of oversight leads to increased funding for programs repeatedly criticized by Defense Sec. Robert Gates.

Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute and the blog Rortybomb has a useful chart and paper outlining what to demand from Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial

The Birmingham News noted in an editorial Sunday that the Alabama state constitution, written in 1901, says the state should encourage immigration. This may come as news to state legislators who recently passed immigration restriction laws viewed as the strictest in the country

Three pro-immigration reform Republican representatives from Miami made a somewhat awkward endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott Monday,

It looks increasingly as though the Tea Party wing of the Congressional Republican caucus is winning the battle within the caucus on whether or not to avoid budget compromise with Democrats and shut down the government Friday. Republicans cheered the prospect of a shut down behind closed doors this week and some of them have been openly stumping with shut-down rhetoric in their districts.

Mark Blumenthal has delved back into one of the year’s political mysteries: What happened to Strategic Vision, the Republican-leaning polling company that

This morning, the White House released an updated report on the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus bill passed in February 2009.