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More political ads will likely soon fly across the Iowa airwaves, and they won’t be the product of the 2012 campaigns. U.S. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) sent out a supporter email Tuesday, asking for donations to help him mount a new ad campaign in Iowa

The senator from South Carolina has hired one of The Washington Times’ star reporters -- and a frequent cable news guest -- as his senior communications

After the FOMC, the Federal Reserve policy committee, voted Wednesday to attempt to stimulate the economy by continuing to target low-interest rates while

The New York Times today points out the chief flaw in the sweeping health reform bills passed by Congress last week: Health care spending might be

Yesterday morning, before Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) pulled out from consideration for commerce secretary, House Republicans announced the formation of a special

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On MSNBC just now, Larry O’Donnell announced that NBC is calling the New Jersey governor’s race for Republican Chris Christie. With 74 percent of the votes

The editor-in-chief of WorldNetDaily left a comment at TWI’s sister site, The Minnesota Independent, taking issue with the statement that the site has been

We did some things right, but were forced to do some things wrong, one miner said.

Two hours into the House Judiciary Committee questioning Michael Mukasey and we’re getting into the good stuff. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fl.) just asked

Once again, Republican candidates are clamoring to be more like Ronald Reagan. There may be no higher compliment on the right than to be considered Reaganesque. Of course, once you drill down, Reagan’s actual positions on taxes, spending and immigration may well fit in better in the Democratic Party than in the current GOP.

At a forum sponsored by the George Washington University to be broadcast tomorrow on CNN’s new Christiane Amanpour program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham

My pseudonymous friend Charlie has been AWOL from her perch at Abu Muqawama for so long that I thought Undersecretary of Defense for Policy-designate Michele

A Republican state Representative from Jackson County is coming under fire for accepting tax breaks and government loans for his company and then laying off more workers. Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) received a tax abatement in 2005 from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for his non-union company, Orbitforms

DNC chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, called the GOP’s agenda “anti-women” and “a war on women” yesterday . Her comments came in response to recent efforts by the GOP to defund Planned Parenthood and to end Title X funding for clinics that perform abortions. # “It’s just so hard for me to grasp how they could be so anti-women as they are,” Wasserman Schultz told the media at a press event, according to U.S

The biggest story out of this weekend’s Tea Party protests, unfortunately for its organizers, seems to be the Duval County, Florida Republican Party’s

Do states with legalized medical marijuana see an increase in employment related injuries or illnesses? You could probably argue the point either way, but what do the statistics show?

Take a look at this new ABC/BBC/ARD poll of Afghan public opinion. (Via The Washington Post.) The topline is that public support for the U.S. presence is

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today dedicated a new visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument . The Department of the Interior said in a release that it expects the new visitor center to increase tourism and generate economic growth and jobs in northwest Colorado and northeast Utah in conjunction with a new exhibit hall to be opened next week. “With funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we were able to construct a new visitor center and exhibit hall that will enable the park to serve as an economic engine and support jobs for communities in this area,” Salazar said.

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple

President-Elect Obama’s new economic team was the big announcement of the day on Monday, and overall the reviews were mostly good. Smart, competent, experienced