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Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn confirmed Monday Republican National Commitee chair and co-chair Reince Priebus and Sharon Day will be in Ames Thursday to attend the presidential debate prior to Saturday’s straw poll . Additionally, 22 RNC members will attend the Straw Poll, Iowa GOP officials confirmed

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (who has been well-covered by TWI) pays some back taxes. The governor’s office wouldn’t say this week how much she owes in back taxes

On the heels of CNN’s poll from Monday, The Washington Post finds a near-even split on a second troop escalation in Afghanistan this year, with 49 percent

Some highlights from Ralph Z. Hallow’s interview with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, in The Washington Times: We want to convey that

The House today passed two oil spill response bills, but a larger oil spill response package -- a compilation of a number of bills -- is expected to be unveiled

Obama defines the Democrats’ midterm campaign as a battle between forward and backward. But as stimulus funds run out, state and regional governments have

The candidates share a rationale: if any Democrats deserve to lose next year, it will be the powerful committee chairmen who are shepherding the party’s agenda through Congress.

The Supreme Court today issued a blow to victims of abuse by U.S. officials during the war on terror. The high court this morning refused to review a federal

Appearing on Meet the Press this weekend, Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve, sounded an awful lot like John Edwards for a central banker

Following up on yesterday’s post concerning how Sen John McCain’s transition-team chief had ties to Saddam Hussein (!), a McCain spokesman named Ben Porritt

LANSING — HIV advocates and legal experts say the state’s local health departments and the Michigan Department of Community Health are using documents which exaggerate the risks of HIV transmission and misstate what Michigan law requires. At issue are documents called “client acknowledgment forms” that are meant to explain to newly diagnosed HIV-positive people Michigan’s disclosure law. But experts say those forms go beyond that stated purpose and distort the legal requirements on HIV-positive people

Today, almost five months after the start of fiscal year 2009, House Democrats introduced an enormous spending package to fund much of the federal government in

Interesting luncheon at the White House today. A host of Afghan cabinet officials dropped by to brief the Obama administration’s Af-Pak strategy review. For

Sen. Barack Obama had a quiet arrival in Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother. His wife, Michelle, and running mate Sen. Joe Biden continue to campaign

Earlier today, Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio weighed in via Twitter on fellow anti-illegal immigration crusader Lou Dobbs’ announcement that he was

Marc Ambinder, Eli Lake and the tag team of Carol E. Lee and Laura Rozen all report on John Brennan’s compromised role directing the Obama administration’s

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain will make a joint appearance at Ground Zero on Thursday, to commemorate the anniversary of Sept. 11. We will put aside

If anyone doubted that socialism was the hot new term in the halls of CPAC, making a big comeback from the late 1970s, here was Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just

So: how does Maj. Gen. David Perkins, director of strategic effects for Multinational Forces-Iraq, view the final three years in Iraq? Here’s what he told a

Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr.