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In February, TWI’s Daphne Eviatar called attention to the weak protections in the federal economic stimulus bill for whistleblowers who expose contracting

Update: A few hours after this item was posted, the AP reported that ACORN’s Las Vegas offices were raided by the FBI. When the Assn. of Community

BOSTON -- At his morning press conference, Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) seemed more miffed than flattered by a question about whether he had

Fed governors and market gurus have been warning about the threat of inflation to the United States economy -- but there remains no sign of prices rising at

Sen. Barack Obama has only one event today, a rally in Dunedin, Florida, and the rest of his schedule is cleared for debate prep. His campaign, however, is not

Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) has rapidly signed up 99 co-sponsors for his Czar Accountability and Reform Act of 2009, which I wrote about last week. All but one

St. Paul--Standing on the floor of the Xcel center last night made me embarrassed about where I come from. Born in Ohio to immigrant parents, with a father who

One-time child Guantanamo Bay inmate of Mohammed Jawad -- he’s believed to be 21 years old, though it’s unclear, and was detained for about seven years -- was

The latest attempt to push the boundaries of campaign finance law comes from the Republican Senator Mike Lee, who filed an advisory opinion request with the

Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, reports the Dallas Morning News. It seems Dallas

Bill McBride, the economist behind the Calculated Risk blog, sums up the uninspiring data on job growth over the last few years and how the next few will likely play out: And we have to remember the numbers are grim: • There are 7.7 million fewer payroll jobs now than before the recession started in December 2007. • Almost 14 million Americans are unemployed. • Of those unemployed, 6.2 million have been unemployed for six months or more.

Last month, I noted that Rosanna Pulido, the Republican selected to campaign for Rahm Emanuel’s vacant Illinois congressional district, was an outspoken

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has gotten a number of A- and B-list conservative bloggers to co-sign an open letter to the National Republican Senatorial

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by a Canadian victim of extraordinary rendition against former U.S. officials,

At a press availability earlier today, I asked Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) about the arrest of anti-ACORN muckraker James O’Keefe and what it meant for

Vice presidents don’t matter? Think again. More than 30 percent have gone on to hold the higher office.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments to reporters yesterday that the economic downturn could pose a substantial hurdle to passing immigration

On March 13, President Obama nominated Maryland civil rights lawyer Thomas J. Perez for the post of Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of

It’s official: Rod Blagojevich is governor of Illinois no more. The Illinois state senators just went down the line in a roll-call vote, and one after

To follow up on Spencer’s post about today’s New York Times story citing a secret Pentagon report that finds that 1 in 7 Rejoin Jihadists After Release, it’s

Following up on Daphne’s piece from earlier this month, it seems that those manufactured questions about Sonia Sotomayor’s intelligence have now bounced from

Politico reports that Republicans are labeling the Fort Hood tragedy an act of terrorism, and Rasmussen Reports is out with a poll backing up that CW: Should

Why is former Vice President Dick Cheney -- who’s planning to speak at the American Enterprise Institute right after President Obama’s national security speech