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While maintaining that he remains “hopeful” a compromise can be reached between U.S. House Republicans and Senate Democrats before a stop-gap budget bill expires next week, U.S.

Here’s Dan Pfeiffer, deputy communications director at the White House, writing yesterday to dispel stories that President Obama and Democratic leaders have

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute), who’s inching toward a decision on a White House run, is releasing his newest book, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That

Yesterday I blogged The Washington Post’s story on political appointees slyly sliding into career positions. One expert on the subject I spoke with said the

It was one of the final rule changes of the Bush administration: A controversial new regulation allowing gun owners to bring concealed weapons into national

Lawmakers shouldn’t overlook how the Federal Home Loan Banks extended Countrywide a $50 billion lifeline when no one else would.

New fundraising numbers are in for both parties, and they’re telling the same old story of this election cycle. All three national Democratic campaign

Sen. John McCain said one substantive thing about Afghanistan in Friday’s debate: we should take Gen. David Petraeus’ Iraq strategy and move it a few thousand

I was looking for a list of business books, and stumbled across BusinessWeek’s best-sellers from 2000, one of the best years in recent economic history. Here

ANCHORAGE -- In case trooper-gate’s not enough, Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee, has another investigation on her plate. The police

So far it seems those banks and financial institutions fortunate enough to receive billions of dollars from the government are showing their gratitude by

The dust has settled from our latest hiring spree, and I’m pleased to introduce the two newest members of the TWI team. Jesse Zwick comes to us from The New

In its 2008 annual report, Mariner Energy, the owner of the rig, paints a detailed picture of Vermilion Oil Rig 380, the shallow water rig that exploded off the

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- At a press conference at Central High School in downtown Phoenix this morning, Sen. John McCain received the much-sought after endorsement

The Florida and Illinois state legislatures ended the week with a series of votes on redistricting reform, with Florida placing three measures on November’s

Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released a survey of 44 economic forecasters. The forecasters -- all economists in the private sector -- see a

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks how the department will have the culture, the morale and the resources necessary to succeed. Back to Adm. Mullen’s

Just announced from the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the upper chamber will vote this afternoon to bring to the floor a $245 billion

Via Derrick Crowe at The Seminal*, a new CNN poll has found that support for the Afghanistan war has dropped yet again, and now it’s at 39 percent, with 58

The Supreme Court will hear a case this session that could clarify whether states have the right to crack down on illegal immigration. The case, to be heard